Wood is chopped from surrounding forests, gold is dug up from mines and stone is no longer part of the economic equation. Food is still gathered from berry bushes, farms, wild animals and fish. Much of the underlying gameplay of AoM will be familiar to fans of the series, as a lot of the basic structure is taken from the previous two games. While there isn’t exactly character 'development’ going on, there are key players throughout the story whose adventures you follow, and there are times when you could almost fool yourself into thinking you were playing an RPG. Initially the danger comes from local pirates, but later you get to participate in the Trojan Wars and end up in pursuit of a mysterious maniacal Cyclops.Īfter the main Greek heroes pursue the Cyclops into Hades and subsequently get stranded, they traverse the underworld and end up emerging in Egypt, and this seamlessly leads on to the second part of the campaign, and subsequently onto the last Norse section. In Microsoft’s interpretation, the single-player campaign starts with the Greeks being called upon to face down a number of threats to their lands.
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In fairness, they have far better story-based material to work with this time around, considering that Greek, Norse and Egyptian mythology is full of rich and enthralling tales.
Gameplay they do well, but a quality storyline always seemed something that was previously left on the cutting room floor. This was frankly the last thing I expected to see in a Microsoft RTS. For a start there's much more of an absorbing storyline to the massive 36-mission campaign (divided up into the three eras), akin to the quality storyline in Warcraft III. It was solid but standard fare, and multiplayer proved to be much more of an interesting training ground. I have to admit in Age Of Empires II: The Age of Kings, I only took a passing interest in the single-player campaign.
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And what better mythical times for the setting of Age Of Mythology, the latest title from Microsoft’s world famous, award-winning RTS series and its first 3D strategy outing? Single-Minded In fact the Greek gods aren’t the only ones getting the Age Of treatment, as the game also revolves around two other eras of gods and mortals, the Norse and the Egyptians. Bored of the endless toga parties and fighting among themselves, they meddled in the affairs of men, until those mortals raised their fists to the heavens and defied them - whereupon they gleefully descended upon the earth bringing with them torture methods involving endlessly shifting boulders up a hill or having some of the squashier parts of ones anatomy repeatedly plucked out by the local wildlife. And what about the gods? Bastards the lot of them. A time of legends - when you couldn’t move for would-be heroes traipsing off to gain riches and glory by slaughtering some poor deformed creature who’d just happened to steal a few sheep.
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