Shockingly enough, the mod-cum-expansion doesn’t include a bag of visual goodies. Now, if only the AI stopped building stuff wherever and whenever. All in all, fun ways to spend time for Age of Empires II enthusiasts. Of course, if you want an uninterrupted start (to rush imperial age, of course), there's the Treaty mode (available in multiplayer only!) that prevents players from attacking each other for a certain amount of time. For a more vicious melee, try Capture the Relic – which is what you need to do, with only one being present on the map. Another game mode is a mutation of the Wonder Domination (that placed one wonder in the middle of the map that everybody tried to get) where one player starts with a wonder and has to defend it – best bring friends, because the game starts in Imperial age, where even gunpowder units are plentiful. Add in the turbo random that speeds up production and resource gathering, things start getting real messy. 8 player games might and will eventually start causing frame rate drops. In context of Age of Empires, it's really ludicrously big, yet it comes with a price.
Of the new map related things – and let's be serious, you're not here to play the campaign forever – the biggest thing is the LudiKRISS map size. All in all, none of them look gamebreaking and fit in well enough within the original, un-forgotten empires. Indians have camels and elephants while the most interesting thing about Italians is that they give their allies the ability to hire Condotieros infantry (supposedly good against gunpowder units). Incas, on the other hand, have no cavalry, but their elites have spears so long that all pikemen start looking for pike enhancement pills. Slavs, for example, gain to do AOE (hehe) damage. So, what else is new? How about the titular “forgotten empires”? Now, there are more obscure ones out there – in, say, Civilization V – but we can pretend that nobody has ever heard of Magyars, Indians, Slavs, Incas and Italians. I would know, I tried making missions on Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and that's just Age of Empires IN SPACE. Also? The missions were very obviously made on the map editor by people who might not have been that experienced with it. So, continuing with the good trend, the game adds a few challenging campaigns of its own. It was way more serious than Age of Empires 3's “let's blast the Fountain of Youth with a big ass cannon” adventures in the New World. Instead, it had a few campaigns that centered around historical personalities. Now, Age of Empires never had a story line, what with being historical strategy game.
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Well, guess what, children! After the re-release of Age of Empires 2 as AoE 2 HD, it got an expansion pack! Forgotten Empire started out as mod, but now it's a full on official AoE 2 HD goodness. Ages, I tell you! Back then I was so young and was never able to win a deathmatch, Spearman were the funniest soldier ever and I had difficulty comprehending the use of right mouse button.