Ah yes. Age of Empires II. We all played this, right? ...right?
Okay. You played this if you were a strategy nerd a la Civ and StarCraft. Turns out I was, so of course I played this back in the day.
Supposedly this is an HD edition of it, although I can't tell much of a difference. That's okay because NOSTALGIA.
Look at that image. You know what that makes me want to do? It makes me want to
That's what.
Okay let's get a game started, I'm picking random because that's how I roll as a grognard and AWWWW YEAH I'M THE AZTECS
It soon becomes clear that I haven't played this game in forever, because I suck, as can be seen by the score counter on the right side of the screen.
The Persians and Mongols (filthy dumb foreign scum) quickly decide that sending in horses one by one is the WAY TO VICTORY, unfortunately for them I have Eagle Warriors
I spend the next 70 minutes gathering resources, upgrading, falling further and further behind my opponents , and building a derpy wall.
Which the Persians proceeded to smash right through and then it was game over for Pike.
final game military score smurfIN LOL
And that, my friends, is the story of Pike Plays AoE II HD.
THE VERDICT:
- GREAT STUFF
- PLAY IT WHILST DRUNK
- NOSTALGIA
- MULTIPLAYER
- Worth full price if you remember this from back in the day, otherwise wait for a sale
- CLASSIC RTS one of the best of all time
- It's like Civ if Civ was an RTS instead of a TBS/4X
- You should probably buy it