Old but Gold : Age of War 2

Welcome everyone to a new series that I call "Old but Gold". In this series I shall be talking about some older games, including indie and web-based games that I enjoyed in the past. For the first post of this series, I shall be writing about a game that many of you may or may not know - Age of War, particularly the second installment. This was a game I always played every once in a while when I was younger and I thought it would be a great start to this series. Therefore, I decided to go play a game again and see what happens.

Age of War is an interesting little web-based strategy game where you are at war with your opponent, an A.I., and must defeat him while evolving across the ages. In the picture above, you can see what the UI and graphics look like. In this picture, I had just started the game and both sides were on the prehistoric age where units consisted of cavemen and dinosaurs. In the top left, you can see the different units available, next to it are turrets you can use to bolster your base's defences, followed by the evolution button which evolves you to the next age and the special attack button which unleashes a devastating global attack that eliminates all the enemies' current units. The last part of the menu has all unit, turret and money upgrades.

Upon reaching sufficient XP which is obtained from killing enemy units, you can evolve with the evolution button to enter the next age.

Spartans fighting Egyptians, your argument is invalid

After evolution, I entered the Spartan age, a little behind the A.I., but I still faced him on even ground. Eventually, the A.I. evolved into the Egyptian age with me following fairly close behind. The Spartan age had Spartan infantry units whereas the Egyptian age had warriors, mages, a cart fighter and an Anubis warrior. So as you can see, every age has its own unique units. To make sure I stayed ahead, I focused on upgrading my units and prioritising quality over quantity to make sure my units were stronger than the A.I.'s. It proved fruitful as I overtook the A.I. and evolved into the next age before him.

Renaissance Warriors vs Medieval Knights

At this point, I was considerably ahead of the A.I. as I evolved into the Medieval age and then the Renaissance age quite a bit faster than he could evolve. The quality over quantity tactic worked out very well as the A.I. had to send huge waves of units just to take down one of mine. I eventually reached the enemy base and started attacking and working down its HP.

Don't bring a sword to a tank and gun fight

As you can see in the image above, I whittled down the enemy base's HP to nearly nothing before he used a last ditch special attack to clear my field. That didn't deter me for long however, as I sent a final wave led by a tank to finally finish him off. I completed the game so quickly that I didn't even manage to evolve to the final age, the Futuristic Age, so if you want to see what that looks like, go check out the game yourself :D

Victory ! I successfully destroyed my enemy while reliving some nice nostalgia. This is a nice and fun little strategy game for anyone and I highly recommend you check it out. If you'd like, you can even check out the first installment of the game, but I guarantee that it is a lot harder than the second. Comment below after checking the game out and tell me how you did ! Or if you'd like, recommend another golden oldie for me to check out :D

Ta-ta for now !

Play Age of War 2 here : Age of War 2 @ Maxgames