You can say a civ is chinese and another is japanese, but every single civ is the same, it’s only the bonus that change.

However, I am not the biggest fan of AoE2 -compared to 1-, 'cos that balance comes at the cost of lack of uniqueness.

The game has now an almost PERFECT balance. My favourite AoE game overall is AoE1, just because I love the era and the fact that the game has some unbalance, which is not good, but leads to some uniqueness.Īlso some of the campaigns had great moments and challenge, and the user campaigns had some of the best I’ve ever played in a RTS -and I’ve played many-.ĪoE2 was my favourite for a while, specially when playing in the wonderful MS Zone, and the campaigns were great. That being said, feature wise this game can be in a totally different level. The sense of amazement when I first played AoE 1 as a kid in 1997, and AoE 2 to some extent…, but specially 1, that’s impossible to beat. Sure it’s not perfect yet -no game, nothing, will ever be- but just playing it makes me realise the incredible potential it has. This game takes every AoE game before it to the next level, when things go right.

Games like forge of empires no pvp