11/24/2023 0 Comments Age of mythology strategyIt’s a real-time strategy game with three main factions: the Greeks, the Egyptians, and the Norse. More importantly, the game itself is excellent as far as its mechanics are concerned. However, the designers seemed to have done their homework and while the game isn’t historically accurate by any stretch of the imagination, it does feel authentic (I’ve written on the distinction between accuracy and authenticity before, as in this blog post on Greek mythology on screen). ![]() The main hero of the single-player campaign comes from Atlantis, so it’s clear straight from the get-go that this isn’t meant to be a historically-accurate game. The game takes place in a sort of parallel universe, where mythology is real and where Bronze-Age Egyptians exist alongside Classical Greeks and the early Norse. Building the wooden horseĪnyway, Age of Mythology was released in 2002 and is a spin-off from the Age of Empires series. ![]() If you’re interested, you might also want to check out my earlier series of blog posts on ancient warfare in videogames ( part 1, part 2, and part 3). After we recorded the latest podcast (on issue IX.1, the fall of Rome), Angus Wallace and I talked for a bit about Age of Mythology and I thought it would be interesting to devote some words to the game here. In my most recent blog post for Ancient Warfare, I wrote about why armies tend to consist of different types of fighters, and drew a comparison with the rock, paper, scissors dynamic found in strategy games such as Age of Mythology.
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