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The original Age of Mythology was developed by the now-defunct Ensemble Studios. Launching in 2002, it built on a number of ideas in the Age of Empires franchise by introducing God Powers, monsters, and heroes for players to command. In crafting Age of Mythology: Retold, the developers have worked to overcome the limitations the original game faced due to the hardware available at the time. One of the big calls made was to allow God Powers to be reused multiple times, instead of being the one-off abilities they are in the original game.

"When we approached this design, there was this thought in the back of our heads ‘Well now that we’re in the 2020s, what can we do?’

I mean, right off the bat, one of the big ones was reusable God Powers, because what could be cooler than having a multiplayer match where multiple God Powers are going off?" says Pirillo, adding that, "Something we saw is oftentimes in matches, because God Powers were single-use, they sometimes might not get used at all because you were saving it in the bank trying to find that perfect moment that may never come."

Pirillo notes that players would often abandon using myth units in the endgame of big matches, so the team worked to rebalance the Favor and Population caps in order to emphasize the mythological aspect of the game instead of having it feel like just another Age of Empires title.

“It was a lot of work that we needed to recreate and modernize for the current hardware,”

Yuen says, praising the original team at Ensemble while pointing out that setting off multiple God Powers with multiple Titans on the screen simply wouldn’t have been possible with the technology available over 20 years ago.

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[Shubh_C63]

All I need to say is..

Prostagma?
vulome

 

[Negotiator101]

looking forward to this, nice stuff coming towards the end of the month and early September.

 

[LordOfChaos]

I really hope this is successful enough to put an Age of Mythology 2 on the table

Isvoli!

 

[DCDW]

I enjoyed the initial release and was somewhat luke warm on returning, but I think I will buy this on release date. The $35 CAD price tag doesn't hurt. As someone mentioned above, I would love to see a AoM2.

 

[Hudo]

Less talk, more release. Come on. I am fucking waiting.

 

[amigastar]

I'm interested in the game which is strange since i'm not that interested in AoE4.

 

[Kerotan]

Put in on PS5 and it'll be the first time I ever buy a MS game day 1.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Put in on PS5 and it'll be the first time I ever buy a MS game day 1.

My PS5 and Macbook Pro having ass is wondering if this'll be on gamepass cloud streaming lol