Google Play. Log4j software bug. NASA probe touches the sun. Spider-Man: No Way Home review. Recasting Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman? PS5 restock tracker. Windows Windows. Most Popular. New Releases. A game that marked a milestone in RTS development, that with The Conquerors expansion has almost reached perfection, becoming an instant classic.
If Age of Empires II was already an incredible strategy game, The Conquerors expansion made it even better due to the fact that it optimized dozens of details that made the playability of the game even better than before.
The Conquerors adds several new civilizations like the Spanish , the Huns or the Aztecs , as well as optimizing the Artificial Intelligence of those that already existed beforehand. It also adds 11 new units, 4 new campaigns and 26 new technologies. But beware! Each people and map will have its distinctive sounds and other details.
For example, in the case of the civilizations it will be possible to enjoy wardrobes, architecture and expressions in their original language. In the case of the maps, the characteristic flora and fauna is shown, along with their ambient sounds. These high-complexity combat classes can be carried out in cruel battles with no regards to sides, or they can be coordinated with diplomacy to form alliances or attack coalitions. Besides, it is possible to determine the map size and the amount of resources, which will be great in case you want to spice up the encounters, especially when more than two civilizations are confronted.
New maps in the game include more real-life maps, based on actual locations found on earth. Additionally, tropical and winter areas jungle and snow respectively was a key missing map terrain in Age of Kings. This was introduced in this new expansion. Despite the graphics being identical to the first AOE2, new gameplay additionals include all-new, much-needed civilizations including the Aztecs, Huns, Spanish, Koreans and Mayans.
We might have the game available for more than one platform. How often have you watched in horror when, on first encountering an enemy group, your HWP stupidly joins in the action, wiping out half your own infantry with friendly fire. In Conquerors, siege weapons like Mangonels will hold their fire if they are likely to injure your own troops. Speaking of sieges, these become both more realistic and more complex. You can now garrison foot soldiers inside battering rams, which has the dual benefit of giving the ram more oomph and providing your troops with protection during the approach to an enemy wall.
There are some interesting additions to the resource management side of things too. Now, when a villager has finished constructing a building, instead of idly standing around watching everybody else working, he'll set off and perform an action appropriate to that building. So, in AOK you might have set a villager to work chopping trees and subsequently had another villager building a Lumber Camp. Now you simply get the first villager to build the Lumber Camp near the tree line, safe in the knowledge that as soon as he's done he'll begin chopping away.
One major time-saver is that, once you have built a Mill, you can queue farms, so that any you already have will be automatically replanted, even if you are tending to a battle on the far side of the map. As you can see then, Conquerors stretches the term "expansion" somewhat. The Age Of Empires series might be a bit of a trusty old dog, but it can still surprise you every now and then by getting itself over a few fences rather than just looking on pathetically at all the younger dogs on the other side.
How do you improve on perfection? The same way you eat an elephant, one small bite at a time. With five new civilizations to choose from Aztecs, Huns, Koreans, Mayans, and the Spanish , it is almost impossible to pick a favorite one to play -- I currently have four favorites with the Korean and the Spanish topping the list. It is a really huge dilemma: so many civilizations, so little time. All the civilizations are now better balanced.
There is a unique technology available for research for every civilization, just like each one has at least one unique unit. Each civilization poses new challenges and new opportunities.
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