Age of Empires II (2013)
Age of Empires II (2013) is an Action, Strategy, RTS, Tactical, Co-op, Historical, Base Building, and Single-player video game developed by Ensemble Studios. During the gameplay, the player needs to collect resources for buildings domains, creating armies, and take charge against enemies to conquer the world. While inspecting the world, the player views the environment from an isometric angle.
The game offers thirteen different civilizations and takes the player to the Middle Ages. The four ages in the game include the Dark Ages, the Feudal Age, the Castle Age, and the Imperial Age, where the player can unlock all these ages by getting to advance through the gameplay. The villagers often called Civilian Units and may include male, female, and children can gather resources for the troops, such as food, water, gold, etc. The collected funds may help the player to construct buildings, pursue technologies, and train the units.
The game allows the player to trade woods, stones, and goods for the sake of virtual currency. The player can play in five different campaigns, such as Genghis Khan’s, Barbarossa’s Crusade, Saladin’s Defense of the Holy Land, Joan of Arc, and William Wallace’s campaign where each campaign contains different history. At the start, the player begins its journey with three villagers, a scout unit, and a town center. The player can conquer the domains by using military conquest control all the relics, make stable kingdoms that can remain for a long time.
The game also introduces five military types, such as infantry, naval, archers, cavalry, and siege weapons that have different defensive abilities and combat powers. Each civilization possesses various weaknesses and strengths, depending on the economy, technology, and battle skills. The player can improve the capabilities of civilization by getting advance and conquering more kingdoms.
#1 Anno 1404 – Dawn of Discovery
Anno 1404 or also known as Dawn of Discovery is a brilliant video game that blends in City-Building, Real-time Strategy, MMO and Economic elements beautifully. The game features both medieval and renaissance era settings and allows you to build your own settlements, explore islands, construct buildings, get into diplomatic ties with neighboring settlements or wage wars against the enemies in order to conquer their lands or to defend your own. The city building element of the game allows you to build massive structures like monuments, research labs, and other facilities and rule over them, maintain them etc. The economic element allows you to set up trade routes and economically grow your settlement, acquire necessary resources and manage them wisely. Just like other games in the Anno Series, Anno 1404 or Dawn of Discovery offers a similar Sandbox style gameplay, wonderful visual details and other great things to make you love this game. Try it out and it’ll amaze you with all of what it has to offer.