Age of Empires 4 Review

Age of Empires 4 reviewed by Leana Hafer on PC.

Age of Empires 4 plays it safe a bit too often, but really excels when it wanders outside of its very traditional comfort zone. The expansive campaigns and offbeat factions like the Mongols and the Rus are major highlights, even when it loses some of its sharpness to a small unit cap, frustrating pathfinding, and relatively unimpressive graphics for a 2021 game. I've been enjoying it a lot as a whole, but it also sometimes makes me question how much room I have in my life for this age-old formula these days, when real-time strategy has come such a long way thanks to the innovations of other franchises.

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[phaserra]

It really sounded like he was going to give it a 6-7 score.

[sam-browne]

"Piece of crap, looks terrible, nothing new, scouts go into trees not around them, looks like it was made in 2010".
8 / 10.
Keep it locked on IGN.

[TheEpicYak]

The video is 80% criticism and it gets an 8. Classic IGN

[NexusV]

Shits on it for 6 mins 30 seconds says there's no time to play this old game. Gives it an 8 lol

[goldgun]

Reviews like these are why nobody takes IGN serious anymore

[ronaldambatoho]

Age of Empires Series is a game that should not lose its simplicity. That is how it wins our heart.

[blaster]

Absolutely can't wait for them to use this to build upon for Age of Mythology 2!!

[Danno-ckky]

Im hoping we can get a new Rise of Nations one day that was like the original.

[plebreton]

That crash course reference was GOLDEN.

[okguzelce]

When a pokemon game releases the only praise we see is how the age old formula still works. But here, for some reason it is deemed a negative aspect.

[sedghammer]

It's true- there is little innovation, but what is there makes for an excellent AoE title. And lower graphic fidelity just means more people can play.

[blayne]

It’s mounting reviews like this one (to a degree) that often pressure developers to continually change a winning formula to something unrecognizable in a sequel. It’s why indie game developers and fan funded projects often make a name for themselves by releasing “spiritual successor games”. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.

[Snack-Bytes]

This review is the equivalent of belittling your girlfriend, saying that she’s useless then at the end of it asks her to marry you lololol

He Craps on the game for nearly 7mins then gives it an 8 lol

[RaspberryBang]

It's playing it safe because they didn't want a repeat of the reaction AoE3 received.

The fan base didn't want an AoE game that strayed too far from what they think an AoE game should be.

[RanjanNadig]

Age of empires is one of the first PC games most people would have played.

[blackmesaboy]

Straying too far from the classic formula for RTS games is a death sentence. Just look at Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight. I'm all too happy to have an "old school" RTS. We RTS fans still play the old classics to this day because they're still a ton of fun.

[MoquiaoMoquiao]

It's almost like the reviewer said; "Hey, I'm not very impressed with this game so I'm gonna give it a score of 6", but then his boss said; "we can't risk upsetting Microsoft and the money stream that's generated because of them so you're gonna give this an 8."

Almost.

[leoviper]

“It really feels like a Windows XP game” -IGN

[peakbam]

This review is mind blowing, he went to complain about how you have to micro units in a real time strategy game, the game will not play itself

[Voldemortbro]

“You need to babysit your armies constantly”. Isn’t that just an RTS game?