Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is a strategy, rts and city builder game
developed by Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media, Wicked Witch, World's Edge and CaptureAge
and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on November 14th 2019 is available only on Windows
in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Hindi and Malay.
It has received 159,608 reviews of which 151,527 were positive and 8,081 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 32.99ā¬ on Steam, but you can find it for 7.70ā¬ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64x2 5600+
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIAĀ® GeForceĀ® GT 420 or ATIā¢ Radeonā¢ HD 6850 or IntelĀ® HD Graphics 4000 or better with 2 GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 15 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 2GB of video memory + 4GB of system memory required
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I cannot recommend this game enough. After countless hours of playing the campaigns, beating the AI with friends, and playing the occasional MP battle, I still don't find myself getting bored with Age of Empires. I believe that what makes this RTS stand out in comparison to others is its diversity. Even when only playing skirmishes, no match is like the one before due to the various maps one can pick and the many civilizations with their different tech trees. I will say though that the learning curve might seem very steep in the beginning. Do not let this discourage you though since it is worth it once you get the hang of it. My advice is to just take it easy, play a few campaigns to get to know different civilizations and go for some battles against the AI. If you can get some friends on board, it will only enhance your experience. There are even some coop-campaigns you can do together, which can be challenging for players new to the game. Overall, I would recommend it wholeheartedly.
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After playing more than 2000 hours since the definite edition came out i might write a recommendation. I knew the AOE-Franchise from my childhood but i didnt touch the game in 15 years. THe new definitve edition and a friend of mine brought me back to the game and after a stresful learning curve i have to say its worth the time. im speaking mainly from a competitive player perspective in pvp. compared to other rts macro and strategy are more important than just microing the units. graphics are very nice, even better than aoe4 when you talk about visibility and clearnes for pvp-play. best thing is, the global community is really nice, nothing in comparison to LoL, cs or other big pvp-online-games. also you can find lot of content on twitch and youtube. i recommend t90official and spiritofthelaw for a start. one last note to the ranking-system: for beginners i highly recommend to play some pve first but then dont be afraid to start in the ranking-matches and skip the normal game-mod in pvp. yes you will lose the first 10-20 games, but the elo-system will give you fitting opponents after that. smurf-accounts may occur but should be a rarity in age. when you play normal-pvp "quickplay" the difference between players skill can vary alot. so as a beginner: just dont do that. if your not into competitive rts the game propably still is way worth the money. there is alot alot alot (!) of campaign-content when you buy the full game-package. with the difficulty on easy you can also enjoy the storylines and dont have to sweat to hard. :-) and just by the way you can play aoe1 within the aoe2-game. we love this game
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I enjoy the Definitive Edition, but I hesitate to call it the same game as Age of Empires II. Like the Ship of Theseus, nearly every part has been replaced, usually for the better but sometimes replaced with inferior versions. The voice acting especially, stood out as a major letdown compared to the original. There's mods to bring back some of it, but it makes me sad that most people won't be installing them and thus won't grow to appreciate the original artistry as I did. Like imagine someone painted an "improved" version of the Mona Lisa. That's great, they could make it appeal to a more modern audience and add their own spin to make it unique, but it's not a replacement for the original. It's not a replacement for the original. I can't help but feel like the heart of the game has been altered or diminished. Like it's hard to call it the same game as the one I grew up with and played so much. It's bittersweet.
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+ Largest playerbase in RTS - as a result matchmaking works better. + Armies are not too large and not too small. + Pleasant music and graphics. + Devs release improvements all the time.
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I got into it because I wanted it to train me on how to multitask, react under pressure and be solution orientated instead of defeatist. After 200 hours, can I say that the game has helped me improve? Well maybe I've made about 1% of the progress I had in mind, but the answer is yes, and I can tell you the game provides a platform where you can put more than just those qualities to the test. I've never played an RTS before and there are points where I find the game almost uncomfortable to play when my little brain wants to rest and to stop thinking about what needs to be done in each moment. Idling is a deadly sin in Age of Empires and every resolution is followed immediately by another decision tugging at your shirt. As a newcomer watching experienced players, they almost seem superhuman - able to simultaneously defend and grow their economy, thoughtfully tuning their resource income while attacking elsewhere on the map, scouting, building, collecting relics, researching technologies and no doubt formulating new plans. I've never felt this sort of ravenous mental demand from a game before and I find it really exciting. Games with more than 2 players can even challenge you with elements of real diplomacy and you can find yourself in the midst of all kinds of funny and tooth-grinding betrayals. Easy to learn, hard to master has probably never been more true. They make the fundamentals as plain and uncomplicated as you can imagine: select unit with left click, then send him to work with right click. Boundless confidence. And then you squint your eyes, gleefully studying the path of progression until you realise it. Not a learning curve, but a learning cliff. Step online and you can look forward to being chewed up and spat out down the precipice again and again by a loyal and grizzled player base and your rating will be in free fall until you land in with the chumps like me. While you might envision yourself playing like a coordinated, well-oiled machine, all kinds of different unknowns work against you to grate at your confidence and distract; build orders, costs, training/research times, unit counters, tech trees and even your own custom hotkeys all take time to internalise. Patience, self forgiveness and humility are needed. When you get sick of getting your arse whooped online, you can find respite and a lot of satisfaction playing against the AI in campaigns where you can control historical figures and their armies. You can play as history's actual real life Dracula defending his kingdom against the Ottomans, Joan of Arc against the English, Montezuma against the Spanish, Genghis Khan against.. well.. everyone. You spank Rome as the Goths, aid in the second crusade as the Germans and, after you've done that, you can undo all of your hard work and kick the Europeans out of Jerusalem as the Arabs. The game doesn't aim for 100% historical accuracy, so take its narratives with a pinch of salt, but having some imperfect, patchwork ideas of the past beats being completely oblivious in my book. The game will help you to form those ideas if you're interested. The civilisations are distinct and have unique advantages and mechanics which usually have fun historical or cultural bases. It's a really special game. It's almost like a celebration of different peoples and their achievements and history. Not in some tired, politically correct, virtue signalling, ego stroking sense but in a meaningful sense. Even with its updated MS DOS graphics and theatrical voice acting, it manages to quite profoundly speak to some of the cruel realities of conquest that 6 out of the 7 continents are bitterly intimate with. The test of viability that every nation must consistently pass in order to endure. The desperation and struggle and the threat of extermination and subjugation of your family and people, unless you fight bloody tooth and nail down to the very last scraps of resources just to keep the predators that lurk in the fog from your throat. Your people survived those predators. They passed the test. Or perhaps you think they failed because they lost wars and land and died while bravely fighting. Regardless, I think there's dignity in it and it inspires such love for all of you that I can't even start to describe it or explain why. Anyway, the game turns 25 years old today. Come join us in appreciating this timeless gem.
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Online players
18,147
Developer
Forgotten Empires,
Tantalus Media,
Wicked Witch,
World's Edge,
CaptureAge
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Release
14 Nov 2019
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