Age of Empires II HD is a strategy, released 9 April 2013.
What Age of Empires II HD is
Age of Empires II HD was released in 2013.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. Released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh in 2001, it is the second game in the Age of Empires series. The Age of Kings is set in the Middle Ages and contains 13 playable civilizations. Players aim to gather resources, which they use to build towns, create armies, and defeat their enemies. There are 5 historically based campaigns, which conscript the player to specialized and story-backed conditions, and 3 additional single-player game modes; multiplayer is also supported.
How it was received
Age of Empires II HD holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Age of Empires II HD launched on 9 April 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and BattleBlock Theater. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, BattleBlock Theater.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Age of Empires II HD yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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