If you like, you can pre-order the expansion now to get 15% off. We already knew about the Return Of Rome pack, but we now have a new trailer (embedded above) and concrete details. Over 20 years after its first release, Age Of Empires 2 is still going strong with a console port, new expansions, and now a pseudo-port of the original game.
There was “no reason why Microsoft shouldn’t just keep making this game bigger and bigger and bigger,” which sounds like what’s been happening with AOE 2 since. Our Age Of Empires 2: Definitive Edition review called the original the greatest RTS of all time, and this new edition retains that quality. This rule set was designed to reduce rush tactics, but it’s now being officially supported as a proper mode. I love when developers integrate community-made rule sets into their games, and that’s exactly what’s happening here. The final newbie in Return Of Rome is a game mode called D3. There’s also one brand new civilisation in the pack: the Lac Viet, which the team say they’ve added due to the original’s “phenomenal popularity in Vietnam.” You’ll instead be able to challenge friends with those original factions and battle through three new campaigns focused on the Sumerians, the Macedonians, and the Romans.
I’m guessing that balancing 17 playable factions and integrating them into AOE 2 was probably too much of a nightmare. You can lead the Romans against the Aztecs and the other Age Of Empires 2 civilisations, but the rest of the expansion is somewhat self-contained. Return Of Rome (not to be confused with the original Rise Of Rome expansion) isn’t fully integrated into Age Of Empires 2 proper, though.
It’s coming on May 16th, and it essentially lets you battle and conquer like it’s 1998 again. Real-time strategy game Age Of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is now exploring the series’ own history with the Return Of Rome expansion pack, bringing back The Roman Empire and every other ancient civilisation from the very first Age Of Empires game.
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