Age of Empires Online

Today I will spend some time playing the new RTS game from Gas Powered Games, Age of Empires Online, I have started playing it all ready and have got to level 12 as the Greeks.
The quests are of great variety with some being timed defense and you must survive or protect an ally for the duration, to the usual building up your empire and attacking the enemy destroying all their buildings and units and there is also some side quests for collecting resources to help out allies.

The side quests are repeatable and become harder every time you replay them in order to start unlocking stronger and much better gear, all your units and buildings are able to equip these new items you unlock and this will give them the edge over the computer A.I and also if you were to play online against other players from around the globe.
The core elements of the game are free to play, from building up your capital city and completing the main story line of the game and also able to play coop as a free to play player, then if you choose to do so, you may purchase premium content for specific civilizations, this will include better gear to equip your units with to get the extra edge over the gear the free to play units get, and also you are able to place more buildings of a certain type in your home town.
The coop side of the game is a great addition to the Age of Empires franchise as you get to have the help of another player who has their own town center and are bale to build their own army up as they see fit in order to help you in your mission. both you and your partner will earn xp from playing and completing levels in coop mode and this will help when you want to upgrade and expand your city.

The tutorial at the start of the game is a good insight to any new players who are playing the Age of Empires games for the first time, it will teach you how to play with the basic commands, from training a villager to gathering resources and building an army. as you complete levels and gain xp your city will gain levels when a certain mount of xp has been accumulated, this in all will help you to get better units and buildings for your city, which you are free to choose which upgrades you want from the tech tree with 3 points awarded per level up.

thats enough of me babbling on about the game now but if you do fancy playing it or just trying it out remember it is free to play then follow the web address here and download it now to start playing, unfortunately it is only available on the PC at the moment so all you Mac users wont be able to play it.

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