For this reason, not thinking about Age of Empires II is complicated, but it is not something that feels like the refuge of a safe value, on the contrary, it works as a starting point for an update that seems most natural. The team, aware of the relevance of the aforementioned second installment, has not been afraid to look towards it to lay the foundations of what can be considered a re-founding of the brand. The design of the menus, their graphics, their elegant color palette and the ability to project, at all times, that we are facing the return of a classic. The love, affection and respect from which Age of Empires IV has been approached are present from minute one. You can see it as soon as you start the title. Along the way, jobs like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War or Company of Heroes endorse the talent of a team that if it knows something, it is this. In fact, they became known to the world in 1999 with the launch of Homeworld, a cathedral space RTS, whose proposal was perfected with its sequel. We are talking about a team with more than 20 years of tradition in the creation of real-time strategy video games. And, as they say: what begins well, ends well. With this attitude, the choice of the studio was essential for the project. That is to say, there was a pressing need for bombastic advertisements, so suspicions were not made to beg. The announcement of all this came in August 2017, when Xbox began its adventure with Game Pass and was not perceived, not even close, as such a powerful product.
The doubt was a reasonable thing, but I already tell you that Age of Empires IV lives up to the legacy of its predecessors. Now, more than a decade later, Relic Entertainment has the ballot to bring the brand back to the present day, and to do so while meeting expectations that are not easy to satisfy.
Later, with the last iteration of the trilogy, the enthusiasm waned, but his presence continued to pull on a genre that seemed exhausted.
His first installment laid the foundations of a formula that, for many, peaked with Age of Empires II, a video game that falls within the Olympus of the medium and is positioned as a benchmark. If they tell us to name a saga related to these two terms, most of us who are already starting to comb gray hair will think about it: Age of Empires, one of those franchises capable of redefining a genre. Real-time strategy, history and video games.