One of the best RTS, that has come across these eyes.Posted on: May 10, 2020
kanamor392
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 60
Bad AI, UI; nothing like Age Of Empires
Runs OK on Win10 with Intel HD 520, supports modern resolutions out ot the box. As an Age of Empires fan I was really disappointed. First impressions are OK -no Age of Empires but close enough. But then there come the little details -you need to gather stone from far away. You go there on a boat and back -you need to tell your peasants to drop it off. Mousing over the buildings shows you nothing, just the name of the town. Once you finally find the town center, there they go. I'm not sure if they did that on their own or when I clicked on "Back to work", but then they kept gathering stone -since the quarry was far away now they started destroying one of our own buildings, until I told them to quit it. Despite having stone I found no way to repair said building. Afterwards, I needed to clear a path through the forest, just outside the town gate. I brought my guys there and started work -it would take a long time, several of my guys would chop away a a single tree for minutes without felling it. After a while they would get back in town and store the wood, all on their own -then they would stand idly at the town center. I think the AI wouldn't let them automatically go back to chop wood outside the gate. Not entirely unlogical, but c'mon. Accomplishing common tasks is just too much work, the interface feels too sparse and unhelpful; I played tons of Age of Empires and some Stronghold and never had the interface problems I had with this one in the very first minutes; never found out how to build more homes or repair buildings. I realize every game is different, but considering I didn't have these problems in Stronghold (a game I played very recently, it's been years since AoE) I just can't recommend this and have to give it one star. If someone you trust tells you the game is actually good I don't see any technical reason not to get it. I mentioned Stronghold; I didn't like it very much but it's way better than this.
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