Age of Empires 2: Definitive Version will take a deep dive into its personal historical past when its Return of Rome DLC releases later right now. The growth is bringing over all 16 civilizations from the unique Age of Empires into the second sport, and even provides three of them their very own distinctive campaigns. Along with all that, it is including the brand new Lac Viet civ to the AOE 1 roster and introducing the D3 aggressive mode, which is seemingly tremendous in style in Vietnam.
I wrote about this one final month, nearer to its announcement, so I will not rehash all the small print right here. What I’ll say is that Return of Rome hits Steam and the Microsoft Retailer (opens in new tab) at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 6 pm BST right now, and—whereas I by no means advocate preordering something—you’ll be able to nab it for 15% off (£8.50/$13) for those who decide it up earlier than it releases.
Though you may need idle fantasies of pitting AOE1’s Sumerians towards AOE2’s Khmer, you need to know that Return of Rome will exist as its personal, distinct part of AOE2: DE. As Microsoft defined in its “Return of Rome: All the pieces You Have to Know” submit, Return of Rome has a separate little bit of the sport’s predominant menu. If you click on, you are magically transported to a portion of the sport siloed off for Return of Rome content material, so you will not have the ability to combine and match the brand new and outdated civs. That applies to the Lac Viet, too.
If you happen to’re upset, you’ll be able to at the very least take solace in the truth that Rome—and solely Rome—may even be added to AOE2’s roster of civs. It’s, in any case, returning.
If, in some way, you have forgotten all of AOE1’s civilisations, listed here are the historic empires and societies that can be a part of the fray right now:
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Carthaginians
- Choson
- Egyptians
- Greeks
- Hittites
- Macedonians
- Minoans
- Palmyrans
- Persians
- Phoenicians
- Romans
- Shang
- Sumerians
- Yamato
- Plus the Lac Viet (who’re new)
