A dense pack-a-punch of mechanics, Age of Wonders 4 delivers way more than one would assume necessary for a game of this variety in all the right ways. Taking the genre combination of Civilization + X-COM and loading it with an absurd excess of additional mechanics. I really wouldn't expect such a robust character creator in a 4X game of all things, but AOW4's has easily surpassed some CRPGs in my experience. There is difficulty in distilling the variety, so a slice of my experience I will give: "Lighting shaman eugenicist frog people riding skeletal horses taking over the world." If I were to include the DLCs, there would be so much more, making for a game so easy to roleplay factions with.
