Receive two free siege units when you build a Siege Factory or Factory. Abilities: - All siege, artillery and bombardment units have +3 range and +3 line-of-sight. They want the building phase.” And that “they want the combat” the series is known for – something Age 2 fans in particular were very vocal about as the Definitive Edition came around. The Turks need military momentum to make the most use of their power, although they have a nice domestic power too. “So one of the things that we learned from Rise, and some of the other Age of Empires experiments that we’ve done, is that there are things that Age of Empires gamers want to see in their games. Theres a wave of remake form war3, RA and AoE right now and even sequels like AoE 4 and Homeworld 3 in the making. We were hoping to recapture the Age audience with Rise, but reduced building and more focus on combat lost us some of the people that we cared about.
“I loved Rise’s focus on history heroes and things like that. “Rise of Nations was kind of the spiritual successor to the Age franchise,” Xbox Game Studios GM Shannon Loftis tells us. The developers behind Age of Empires 4 say the response to Rise – and past Age titles – has helped inform the new game. Rise of Nations brought a bit of Civilization flavour to the historic RTS, but while that game was successful in its own right, it didn’t quite scratch the same itch as Age.
While Age of Empires is Microsoft’s big real-time strategy series – and the one that’s coming back – it’s not the only one.
