Age of Empires: Castle Siege

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Age of Empires: Castle Siege
Studio	Smoking Gun Interactive
Publisher	Microsoft
Erstveröffent- lichung	18th September 2014
platform	Windows , Windows Phone , iOS
genre	Real time strategy game
Game mode	Single player , multiplayer
control	Mouse , keyboard , touchscreen
language	German
Age rating	USK

Age of Empires: Castle Siege (AoE: CS) is a computer game from the Age-of-Empires series . The game was launched on August 25, 2014 and has been available since September 18 through the Windows Store for Windows Phone 8 , Windows RT , Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 . After the game had been available in the Canadian Apple App Store for several months , Microsoft finally released the strategy game worldwide for iOS on July 16, 2015 .

Gameplay

Age of Empires: Castle Siege is a pure online game and combines the game principles of tower defense with those of real-time strategy . On the one hand, the player builds his own castle. To this end, the defenses with towers, walls and traps are being expanded and troops are being trained. On the other hand, the player can attack the castles of other players. Here, too, your own troops, heroes and siege devices can be further developed and thus made more efficient.

The game is timed from the early Middle Ages to the early modern era. In the foreground of the game are six civilizations (Kievan Rus, Britannians, Byzantines, Franks, Saracens, Teutonic Order), which are characterized by different weaknesses and strengths. The player chooses one of the six civilizations and receives a keep (castle), which he can further develop in several stages (currently 10). The further developments are linked - each in text form - with historical information on the respective civilization. Infantry, cavalry and technical siege units are available to the player to defend and attack foreign keepers, which can also be further developed and expanded. Each civilization has a special unit with special, historically based skills, for example particularly efficient archers for the Britons or particularly armored infantry for the Teutonic Order. In addition, every civilization has a so-called hero with very special skills for attack and defense. The heroes and their skills are based on historical personalities. With the Franks, for example, the heroine Johanna von Orleans is able to convince opposing troops to overflow.

An attack on opposing castles takes place online and within six minutes. The player attacks a randomly generated opponent with his troops, which have previously been individually assembled, and controls his troops with mouse or touch gestures. The opponent is defeated if either the castle or 50% of the defender's buildings have been destroyed within six minutes. Additional crowns are awarded if both the castle and the building have been destroyed. Even more crowns will be awarded to those who have destroyed 100% of the opposing buildings (including the castle).

development

Age of Empires: Castle Siege was announced on August 25, 2014 via Microsoft's official website and various social networks. On the same day, a livestream gameplay was streamed on twitch by the AoE support team. Was developed AoE: CS from the Microsoft Studios and Smoking Gun Interactive . The video game was released on September 18, 2014 for computers with Windows 8.1, Windows RT and mobile phones with at least Windows Phone 8. The game will be discontinued on May 13, 2019. The forums for Age of Empires: Castle Siege closed on December 13, 2018.

reception

The offshoot was received differently by the fans. Some of the players would have liked a real Age of Empires 4 and took the announcement more or less negatively. Some gamers criticized the fact that no version of the game is offered for phones with Android and other operating systems, which excludes the majority of smartphone users. The game has also been available for Android since the end of 2016.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Kahle: Age of Empires: Castle Siege no longer exclusively for Windows phones. In: winfuture.de. May 21, 2015, accessed July 16, 2016 . 
2. ↑ sirthecos: Age of Empires: Castle Siege will be discontinued in 2019. In: windowsunited.de. WindowsUnited, November 14, 2018, accessed January 12, 2019 .