At the same time, new mechanical ideas like being able to hide units in forests to set up ambushes are a nice twist, but other than that I'm not really doing anything that I couldn't in the Definitive Editions of Age of Empires 2 and 3 that have been released recently. And with Microsoft signing the checks, it's not like Relic made this on a shoestring budget. That includes the graphics: even on max settings they don't look that impressive, especially when I could go play any Total War released since 2010 and see an order of magnitude more units with much more detailed models and far higher-fidelity environments. But these modest touch-ups didn't do much to change the fact that there's almost nothing in Age 4 that couldn't have existed 10 years ago.
