Age of Empires 2 is ready to return in time with its subsequent DLC, however, like, another way than regular. Return of Rome (opens in new tab) is a “fully new kind of growth pack” that can deliver AOE 1 into AOE 2 when it releases on Could 16, including all 16 civilisations from the primary sport and its Rise of Rome growth pack to the second sport’s roster.
Which means you will quickly be capable of play the (take a deep breath, get a glass of water) Assyrians, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Choson, Egyptians, Greeks, Hittites, Macedonians, Minoans, Palmyrans, Persians, Phoenicians, Romans, Shang, Sumerians, and Yamato on the plains, steppes and tundra of AOE 2. And if that is merely not sufficient human historical past to select from, Return of Rome can be including one model new civ—the Lac Viet—to its faction record.
It isn’t only a factional affair, although. The growth will even introduce three new campaigns to point out off just a few of its new (outdated) civilisations. There are campaigns for Sargon of Akkad (the Sumerians), Pyrrhus of Epirus (the Macedonians), and Trajan (the Romans). If I bear in mind appropriately, ‘pyrrhic victory’ is one other means of claiming ‘actually good victory,’ in order that second marketing campaign will in all probability be chill as hell.
Return of Rome will even deliver within the D3 sport mode, “impressed by a ruleset made well-liked in Vietnam”. I confess, I am not aware of this one, however the AOE wiki (opens in new tab) tells me that D3 is a mode that cuts down on rush techniques and drags video games out a bit: You are solely allowed to struggle with a single unit till the Bronze Age, and partitions and towers are banned.
Except for all that, the growth will include a bunch of annoyingly undetailed “visible enhancements,” “UI enhancements”, and enhanced CPU-opponent AI.
If that piques your curiosity, you will discover Age of Empires 2’s Return of Rome DLC over on Steam (opens in new tab) and the Microsoft Retailer (opens in new tab), the place it is at present 15% off to lure you into preordering it.
