Summary
- Age of Mythology: Retold features improved visuals, higher population cap, and reusable God Powers.
- The new Wonder Age in Retold enhances gameplay by offering new bonuses and rewards.
- Retold includes controller support, ensuring Xbox players can enjoy the full experience.
Released right at the height of the golden age of real-time strategy games, Age of Mythology took its predecessors' groundbreaking formula and combined it with an incredibly unique premise. Age of Mythology still holds up remarkably well today, but as should be expected of any game from 2002, some elements don't hold up quite so well. Thankfully, that's where Age of Mythology: Retold comes in.
Released just a week ago, Age of Mythology: Retold is a full, ground-up remake of the 2002 game that's been developed by World's Edge and Forgotten Empires, two studios that have worked on the Age of Empires franchise for years now. These studios have taken their expertise and applied it to Age of Mythology, delivering a great remake that boasts a vast array of noticeable changes and improvements, all while retaining the essence of the original game.
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All the Major Changes and Improvements in Age of Mythology: Retold
Improved Visuals
The most obvious improvement made in the remake is Age of Mythology: Retold's all-new graphics, animations, models, and lighting. When looking at the 2002 original and the remake side-by-side, the graphics are night and day, with Retold adding countless visual elements to ensure that the game looks and feels like a modern-day, big-budget strategy title.
Higher Population Cap
Delving into the gameplay changes made in the remake, Age of Mythology: Retold features a much higher population cap than its 2002 counterpart. In the original version of Age of Mythology, players could only build 10 houses, limiting their population to just 100 units. In Age of Mythology: Retold, players can build 16 houses, raising that initial population cap to 160 units, which allows for larger armies as well as a larger economic workforce.
God Powers Can Be Reused
In Age of Mythology, players are granted special God Powers every time they advance a technological age and recruit a Minor God to their civilization. Each of these God Powers could only be used once in the original version of the game. In Age of Mythology: Retold, players can reuse God Powers, they simply need to wait for the cooldown timer and spend the large amount of Favor that's needed to use them again.
The New Wonder Age
The original Age of Mythology featured four technological Ages: Archaic, Classical, Heroic, and Mythic. Age of Mythology: Retold adds a new Wonder Age to the game. Ushered in after the completion of the eponymous game-winning structure, the Wonder Age gives players +1 Favor every second, reduces the cost and cooldown of God Powers, increases the attack power, health, and speed of Titans and Myth units, and allows the Titan Gate to be rebuilt after 10 minutes.
Age of Mythology: Retold's Wonder Age replaces the Titan Age that was introduced in the original game's first expansion.
Controller Support
Released on PC and Xbox simultaneously, Age of Mythology: Retold naturally needed much more controller support than its 2002 counterpart. Thankfully, developers World's Edge and Forgotten Empires went above and beyond in this area, taking Age of Empires 4's intuitive control scheme and giving it a few additional refinements along the way, such as improved icon visibility and clearer UI font for its radial menus. This streamlined control scheme ensures Xbox players are still getting the full Age of Mythology: Retold experience.
Age of Mythology: Retold
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 83 /100 Critics Rec: 86%
- Released
- September 4, 2024
- ESRB
- T For Teen Due To Violence
- Developer(s)
- World's Edge, Forgotten Empires, Capture Age, Tantalus Media, Virtuos
- Publisher(s)
- Xbox Game Studios
- Engine
- BANG! Engine
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Franchise
- Age of Mythology, Age of Empires
WHERE TO PLAY
From the creators of the award-winning Age of Empires franchise, Age of Mythology: Retold goes beyond history to a mythical age where gods, monsters, and humans collide. Combining the best elements of the beloved Age of Mythology with modern real-time strategy design and visuals, Retold is an epic and innovative experience for old and new players alike. Secure your domain, command legendary monsters, and call upon the power of the gods to crush your enemies.
Will you become Mythic?
Call Upon the Gods
Choose your gods from the Greek, Norse, Egyptian, and Atlantean pantheons. Devastate your enemies by summoning powerful lightning storms, earth-shattering quakes, and even the famed Nidhogg dragon. Or call upon nourishing rains and protective Dryads to help your people grow & prosper.
Unleash the Monsters
Unleash Centaurs, Trolls, Mummies, and more. From bejeweled crocodiles who harness the power of the sun to the mighty one-eyed Cyclops, you will command diverse units inspired by the world’s great mythologies.
An Epic Mythological Universe
Embark on multiple campaigns spanning 50-missions that take you across a vast, mythical world: besiege the mighty walls of Troy, battle Giants in the frozen wastes of Midgard, and discover the mysteries of Osiris in the shifting sands of Egypt. Become a hero of myth—or even a god.
Better with Friends
Play with your friends, either head-to-head or against the advanced AI on dozens of randomly generated maps and scenarios for limitless re-playability.
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Unknown
- Platform(s)
- PC, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- Genre(s)
- Strategy
