The initial tutorial quickly gets you up to speed with resource gathering, building, scouting, and creating a small army with basic ground units, cavalry, and archers. Immediately upon launching Age of Empires IV, I felt right at home. However, I have been around the genre enough to know and be comfortable with the core mechanics. Most of my fun came from custom skirmishes and private games between friends. I am by no means an RTS expert, I couldn’t tell you anything about esports-level strategies, or how to dominate online leaderboards. It is a series I’ve enjoyed and revisited many times over the years. Now, this long-awaited sequel has finally arrived – was it worth the wait?Īs a 90s kid, many of my early PC gaming experiences came from RTS games and many of those hours were spent playing Age of Empires II and eventually, Age of Empires III.
That changed back in 2017, with Microsoft partnering with Relic Entertainment to modernise the series and deliver Age of Empires IV. The last mainline game, Age of Empires III, released back in 2005 and for well over a decade, it looked like we would never get a sequel. Not long ago, Age of Empires was a dormant franchise, forgotten and left behind as Microsoft shifted its focus to Xbox.
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