A new contender in the field of MMO real-time strategy titles has appeared: Golden Age. If you're all about constructing castles, building up armies, and clashing in epic battles, Aeria Games is hoping that this title will sate your bloodlust.
As players commit warfare against each other and computer-controlled enemies, Golden Age allows bystanders to participate as well. Players can vote for their favorite army when a battle convenes, and the army with the most votes gets bonus soldiers for the fight.
When not fighting, players will build up their fortresses using over 20 types of structures and also talk to inhabitants of the town to see whether any of them has a quest for you to do. Aeria Games promises that the browser-based Golden Age will be free-to-play and will be released with both English and Spanish translations. You can check out the teaser site and register for the beta now. We give you permission -- just finish your vegetables first.
Reader Comments (6)
Posted: May 2nd 2011 11:17AM Danteeeee said
Eh I'm not sure this is the right time for this game. AoEO is looking pretty good right now, especially with the beta access and whatnot. This will have to do something unique to get players attention.
Posted: May 2nd 2011 11:49AM SnarlingWolf said
People get to vote on an army and it gets bonus troops? So.... let's take the strategy out of RTS and make it so people join big guilds/clans to always get bonus armies. Ya that sounds good.
Posted: May 2nd 2011 1:45PM Saker said
I have yet to see anyone manage to merge MMO/RTS that actually works and is fun. Have tried a number of the alpha/betas and haven't found 1 that really works yet. Haven't seen anyone able to balance the RTS elements with the MMO elements. Had high hopes for Strong Hold Kingdoms, and that game is so painfully boring it makes you bleed from multiple orifices.
Posted: May 2nd 2011 4:49PM pcgneurotic said
I suck at off-line RTSs, no reason I'm going to magically improve if they're online. Next! :D
Posted: May 3rd 2011 4:12AM sadsurfer said
Not had the chance to look at AoEO yet (spare key anyone?!) and will look at this but at the moment http://www.8realms.com is the one I am watching - just wish there was more information about it!
Posted: May 4th 2011 3:38PM Hookan91 said
@sadsurfer Try getting a beta key in Curse.
http://www.curse.com/keys/age-of-empires-online/default.aspx
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