Age of Empires

Patch 1.0c Herzog Zwei is not an RTS Dune 2 is the first RTS Once upon a time we celebrated a new year at my uncle’s who is one year older than me. When we got our presents i got some Rainbow Siege and he got a collection of strategic games. He already owned most […]

Age of Empires II HD

After finishing many better RTS games i’ve decided to go back and conquer the campaigns i was never able to finish, in the game i played a lot in my childhood. After all, it’s a new HD release and i’m old and experienced. Well, then i got pissed because the unit AI is one of […]

Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

The game have just came out and we already are doing “Anniversary Edition”, right. There’s still no proper defencive stance for the units. In AoE2 it’s one of the most useful outside of edge-cases — units don’t take kindly to being killed out of range, but neither they do spread across the entire map uncontrollably. […]

Age of Empires IV

Let’s ask people who have ruined Company of Heroes 2 and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III to ruin Age of Empires IV. This game leaves a terrible first impression. I tried it soon after the release and it was extremely uninspiring. It looks like absolute puppydoodoo both in terms of the art-style and of […]

Age of Empires II (HD)

I have a history with this series. I’ve spent many hours screwing around in the games. Loved the cheats in the first one. But i did try to actually finish some campaigns, many times. I thought that i got better at games or that they fixed things up here, but no. Playing this is impossible […]

Age of Empires III: Complete Collection

Vanilla campaigns were played quite a few years prior, probably in russian, probably only text. The rest is Steam release. After the release of Казаки: Европейские войны, for Age of Empires III any move forward in era, but in the same playstyle looked futile for everyone. It turned out that “everyone” is limited only to […]