

Or you can get three friends to join you, passing the DS back and forth as you go. And after gathering the troops, gameplay involves plotting out moves that will take advantage of a given map’s terrain and hopefully outmaneuver the powerful enemy.Ī single player mode takes one stouthearted strategist through three lengthy campaigns. Gamers can also send in powerful Pegasuses or creepy bandage-wrapped mummies to fill out their ranks. Each of these battle groups have their own strengths, specialized movements and a variety of attack units-such as the Egyptians’ camel cavalry or the Greeks’ Hoplites. The game lays the mantle of legendary hero on gamers’ shoulders and gives them command over the ancient armies of either the Egyptians, Greeks or Norse. (Or maybe a hand in gauntlet works better in this case.) The mini-screen format, easy two-button control and pass-around capability of a handheld seem to fit this kind of game like a hand in glove. But on Nintendo’s DS the genre is doing quite well.
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Turn-based real-time strategy games like this one are becoming fewer and farther between on the PC and most next-gen consoles. This top-rated game for the Nintendo DS is something closer to a stretched out chess game-reshaped to include ancient armies and a few mythological creatures. But in reality this is a sphinx of a different color.

When first hearing the title Age of Empires: Mythologies, it would be reasonable to expect that this video game is all about building majestic kingdoms or exploring, in-depth, the storylines of ancient myths.
