Age of Empires 2 HD Review

Age of Empires 2 HD is a relaunch of the old RTS classic with improved graphics.

So, how does it look? Like an old game with improved graphics. If you expected it to look like a brand new game, you will be quite disappointed. That is particularly apparent on the animations, which can look a bit silly sometimes.

But overall, if you are a fun of the original, you probably can't go wrong with a better looking version (which I imagine looks VERY dated now - and I understand there were problems even with wide screen modes).

If you never played but you have played newer RTS games you might be a little bothered. It goes the classic RTS way of accumulating resources, and using them to build, create your army and upgrade everything.  Upgrades stops in the Imperial Age.

One particularly lame move is that the start screen is messed up if you don't have the screen DPI (Font Sizes) on the default. And them they have the nerve to point you to a page (which opens in IE, no less) where they tell you that your DPI setting is incorrect, as if it wasn't their responsability for the game to work in it. Argh! I can still click on the buttons, it just looks broken.