Microsoft has announced the release of Age of Empires: Definitive Edition on the PC, exclusively via the Windows Store. Age of Empires Definitive Edition features full remastered visuals with 4K support, new zoom levels, new and improved gameplay, as well as a fully remastered soundtrack.
This Definitive Edition of the classic strategy game comes with tons of new features, such as an Attack Move, 250-300 population cap, Rally Points Basic, Rally Points Contextual (Intelligent Villagers), Grid default key layout, Unit queuing and Right-click mouse scroll.
For Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, Microsoft has rebuilt assets for a modern 4K presentation, offers players the ability to play online with Xbox LIVE (in addition to LAN play), added campaign narration for every mission and enhanced the campaign and scenario editor, which allows anyone to make original custom campaigns for the game, by letting players easily share them with other players around the world.
In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher has also released the game’s launch trailer that can be viewed below.
Enjoy!
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“exclusively via the Windows Store”
“play online with Xbox LIVE”
Just what PC gamers were all hoping for! ?
This is UWP… lets hope MS release AoE on Xbox
All I want is Age of Empire 4 on Xbox consoles. Game should be designed to work on both PC and Xbox like for example “Halo Wars 2”. Game should support both mouse and gamepads to give players choice of platform.
and be gimped for PC players?. Yeah, no thanks.
halo Wars already killed the original studio behind AoE. Last thing I want to see is another console endeavour that kills a PC franchise again.
Gimped? No… Simply designed for both gamepad and mouse from start like Halo Wars 2. AoW4 should be available on both platform to give players choice
MS can use engine from Halo Wars 2 to create AoE4. Win for everybody. More gamers = more money for developers = better game
which means gimping the game for the console UI.
I’ve seen how HW1/2 were designed, I’m not stupid.
We already have a choice. You buy a console for console games, and a PC for PC games. Simple as.
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So even the suckers who buy content from Windows 10 Store aren’t impressed. Cool.
Just saw that and i was going to get it not now, seriously i’m a massive fan of this game for many reasons including pure nostalgia.
Now i wait until i see that go to 4.0 or higher or if i even hear one rumor about it coming to a real platform like steam.
“…exclusively via the Windows Store.”
Aww that’s cute. Nice try, Microsoft! You were so close.
Destined for failure right out the door.
I prefer to keep my games in one place (steam library), but I see no reason to ignore playing games because they are windows 10 exclusives. Anyone who is using windows 10 can buy windows store games the same way like steam games, the only real downside is lack of mod support (and of course lack of pirate copies). More and more great games are available on windows 10, so gamers are forced to use windows 10 store anyway if they want to play new games.
From eurogamer review:
“”Beyond the changes to visuals and audio, the game is pretty much identical to before””
Basically, game looks great now, but it still plays like old age of empires 1. Because of that I think game will be amazing, this is exactly what I wanted. I prefer when remasters improve graphics but gameplay should be the same.
Didn’t they toss in other features, like being able to check on idle villagers, new animation turning points for all units etc?.
Watch this bomb, because it’s tied to just the Win 10 store.
Hopefully so.
Steam or get the F**K out
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Mine, anyone else notice the stutter during the gameplay around 1min in?
Incoming Positive Comment
Love this series, looking forward to getting my hands on this real soon.