Addictive, takes forever to get ahead.
Just unlocked my first jet after 928 hours.
If you are a plane fanatic, read a book, play something else.

I played the original map and then the oxbow map. Love this game.
And the systems remind me of survival in Eastern Europe when you don't have electricity.
I've seen a well like the one you can build in real life in use today!

Even ages later I keep coming back.
One of my all time favorite strategy games.

Love the setting, the systems in place.
Would have liked to spend more time on multiplayer, wished CA had left the censorless chatrooms because the names of those rooms were funny as hell and the crazy things people posted in them were all jokes testing the lack of censorship. Was pretty funny to see people actually exposing their hatred towards each other and then realizing they had common ground and then going for a game together.

With the updates and fixes its become an AOE I enjoy playing with friends just like I did with AOE III.
I like most of the faction choices also. Looking forward to more DLCs and FLCs.
I will be buying the DLCs as this game is now flushed out enough for them to add a lot of replayability.
Masteries are kind of fun for unlocking visual things.

A good RTS with a cool time setting between the age of knights and the age of gunpowder. Nice biomes from Africa to Asia going through different parts of Europe.
Overall quite enjoyable, not a stressful strategy game, not completely casual either.

Wololo!