So there’s a bit of tough love here.įirst, and most bluntly, Definitive Edition has never been less stable as a piece of software than it is right now. And while there’s a lot about it that’s just as good as I’d hoped for, there are some surprising disappointments too. I’ve been rinsing it, both in ranked and single player modes, for nearly two weeks now, so I’ve had plenty of time to see how it’s affected the game as a whole. AoE2’s Definitive Edition has dominated my gaming time over the last year, even more than the original dominated my teens, and I’m thrilled at this sign that it’s sticking around.īut however pleasing it is that the expansion exists at all, my feelings are a little more reserved about Lords Of The West itself. The release of Lords Of The West is clear confirmation that AoE2’s experimental resurrection has been a success: the monster lives, and it’s going to get continued support from its creator and patron, Doctor Microsoft. The fact that Age Of Empires 2 has a fresh expansion pack, more than two decades after it first came out, is something I’m inevitably well happy with. Developer: Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media, Wicked Witch.There's a lot of creativity on show in the reborn AoE2's first expansion pack, but the soup is soured a little by stability issues and civ design power creep. Age Of Empires 2: Lords Of The West review
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