“We knew that bringing the complexity of RTS to Xbox consoles was a massive task and one we had to approach carefully and thoughtfully,” director of customer voice at World’s Edge Emma Bridle wrote on theXbox News Wire.
“The team has been working hard to bring an experience that not only feels great using a controller, but also teaches players how to play on Xbox. A new tutorial designed specifically for controller input paired with a new user experience for console will help players get started. We’ve also added a new game AI which helps make resource management in a strategy game efficient and intuitive.”
As mentioned above, Age Of Empires II: Definitive Edition will also be getting optional crossplay support between all platforms when the console edition arrives, allowing PC peeps to play with Xbox-ers. Plus, if you’re an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber and fancy squeezing in some more AOE on your phone or laptop via your web browser, then it will also be able to play through Xbox Cloud Gaming, too.
These new additions have all been highly-requested features from players themselves, according to Bridle, who she called “the beating heart of the franchise” inour new 25th anniversary interviewwith the World’s Edge development team. Nic Reuben spoke to both Bridle and creative director Adam Isgreen about how the series has evolved over the last quarter century, and it’s chock full of fascinating insights.
Age Of Empires II: Definitive Edition is available now on PC over onSteamandGame Pass, as is Age Of Empires IV, which you can find here onSteamand here onGame Pass.
