Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is a remaster of Age of Empires. It features significantly improved visuals, multiple quality of life improvements, and incorporates The Rise of Rome expansion. It was released with certain changes.
First announced on June 12, 2017[1][2] and set to be released on October 19, 2017 as a Windows 10 store-exclusive title for the original game's 20th anniversary,[3] it was delayed until February 20, 2018 and later released on Steam on August 19, 2019.
On October 25, 2022, on the 25th Anniversary of the Age of Empires series, the game was announced to be ported to the Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition engine. This was implemented through the Return of Rome expansion for the latter.
New features[]
- Achievements
- All-new graphics and artwork
- Attack move functionality[4]
- Balance adjustments
- Classic Mode – The original 1997 experience
- Enhanced pathfinding[4]
- Increased population limit[4]
- New, fully remastered soundtrack
- New terrains and scenario editor objects
- New zoom levels[4]
- Remastered sound effects
- Revamped and expanded UI
- Reworked campaigns
Major post-launch changes:
- Automatic Farm Reseed in the Granary
- Automatic File Transfer of scenarios and maps in the Multiplayer Lobby
- Global queue indicator for all currently queued technologies and units
- Mixed technology queues
- Mixed unit queues
- New Elo and 'Ranked' game modes
- Option to toggle blood effects on and off
- Priests auto-heal wounded units
- Scouts auto-attack if they've been tasked to attack, or when attacked by a non-gaia unit
- Ship acceleration removed
- UI indicator for amount of villagers working on each resource
- Unit stances[5]
Campaigns[]
The Definitive Edition offers the campaigns from Age of Empires (including Reign of the Hittites from the demo) and The Rise of Rome (including The First Punic War from the demo). Some scenarios were renamed, had gameplay changes, or included different descriptions and faction names.
The full list of campaigns are:
- Tutorial Campaign: Ascent of Egypt (Egyptians, previously Ascent of Egypt Learning Campaign in Age of Empires)
- Glory of Greece (Greeks)
- Voices of Babylon (Babylonians)
- Yamato, Empire of the Rising Sun (Yamato)
- Reign of the Hittites (Hittites)
- The Rise of Rome (Romans, previously Rise of Rome in The Rise of Rome)
- Ave Caesar (Romans)
- Imperium Romanum (Romans, Palmyrans, previously Pax Romana in The Rise of Rome)
- Enemies of Rome (Carthaginians, Macedonians, Romans, Palmyrans)
- The First Punic War (Carthaginians)
Trivia[]
- This is the only Definitive Edition to not include new civilizations and brand new campaigns or scenarios (Reign of the Hitites and The First Punic War were demo campaigns for the original version) and is the only one where all unit voices have been redone.
Gallery[]
- Collectible backgrounds
- Collectible Steam trading cards
External links[]
References[]
- ↑ Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is coming to PC in glorious 4K
- ↑ Age of Empires is being remastered in 4K this year (update)
- ↑ Age of Empires: Definitive Edition - Microsoft Store page
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Age of Empires Definitive Edition - Gamescom 2017 Trailer
- ↑ Age of Empires: Definitive Edition - Update 38862
