

One of the most beloved real-time strategy games out there,the game is coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC, Windows Store, and Steam.įeaturing both familiar and innovative new ways to expand your empire in stunning 4K visual fidelity, allowing you to build cities, manage resources, and lead your troops to battle on land and at sea in four distinct campaigns with 35 missions that span across 500 years of history from the Dark Ages up to the Renaissance. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

In it, we were given a look at the Holy Roman Empire faction and the Rise of Moscow campaign. You’ll have to find out.A new Age of Empires 4 video was shown off during gamescom Opening Night Live. “So yes, there are four resources, and all the civilisations use them – but do they use them in the same way? Do they use them in the same order? Hmm, don’t know.

“We deviate a little, but we really love the model from Age II,” Isgreen says. We probed further on such points as resources and progressing through different ages in time. When it comes to Age of Empires IV civilisations, it sounds like we can expect a mix of the familiar and the radical – the English will feel familiar to the Britons from Age of Empires II, while the Mongols will be very different, with Isgreen implying that Age’s traditional “unique units and differences in tech” might be among the systems revised. We got the chance to ask creative director Adam Isgreen about exactly that at X019 yesterday. RTS, and gaming in general, has come a long way since then, and it’d be fair for fans to wonder how much is going to stay the same in Age of Empires IV. It’s been more than 14 years since Age of Empires III, the last full-fledged, built-from-scratch release in Microsoft’s legendary real-time strategy series.
