Worth it?

[El Diplomático]

Hello, I am an Age of Empires player, I would like to know if this game is worth it. I know that it doesn't have a skirmish mode, but I would like to know if it has other game modes that extend the life of the game or if its campaigns are long and varied. Thank you!

[Beravin]

Hello. I consider it worth it, but my opinion is biased as I loved the original.

To answer your question, it has 3 campaigns. A combat campaign, an economic campaign, and a new campaign that I've yet to try but seems to be a story expansion.

It has an attack / defence of a castle mode. It has a "Castle Trail" which seems to be an attack / defence campaign of some kind but I have not tried. It also has multiplayer with no AI, so up to you if thats your thing. I've seen a few games hosted but not many.

To be clear, don't expect 100s of hours of content, but you'll get your monies worth.

[Darth Revan]

there is also a free build mode where you can spawn in invasion armies to defend against and a map editor with which you can make your own missions/scenarios and a ton of community created missions/scenarios to download and play.

there is no AI that can build stuff though so its always either build and defend, build, defend and attack a statick pre existing enemy castle or just attack a pre existing castle with pre defined troops.

some of the missions also may require you to attack a pre existing castle with pre defined troops and capture it to make it your own and then defend it against counter attacks.

[El Diplomático]

Ok guys ill give it a try, thanks for the info!

[Nightmare799]

Originally posted by Capitán Alatriste:

Hello, I am an Age of Empires player, I would like to know if this game is worth it. I know that it doesn't have a skirmish mode, but I would like to know if it has other game modes that extend the life of the game or if its campaigns are long and varied. Thank you! :chivhead:

Nah get SH crustader 1.

[Min]

Really worth it, for me more worth it than some new AAA titles, i find new campaigns entertaining + lots new stuff , creating your own maps is really fun

[Ash//Fox]

IMO the campaign alone is worth the asking price. However the real prize will be if this game sells well enough (perhaps it already has) developers will be remastering the stand alone expansion Crusader which features a skirmish mode including an entire bonus campaign dedicated to it, along with new (albeit smaller) campaigns.

So I wouldn't feel bad about buying the game if I were you, I think it's very reasonably priced if you're willing to accept it only has a campaign, but supporting this means you might get the other side most RTS players hope for down the line... food for thought