These missions aren’t easy either, and on standard difficulty I found I had to quickly wrap my fingers around the new keyboard shortcuts to keep up with an efficient, nagging enemy.ĭamn is it fun to experiment with the different civs and learn their unique waysīut these sleek campaigns are just a foreword to the stories you’ll be crafting on the Skirmish maps with the eight eclectic civs on offer. Regardless, the campaign throws up plenty of great set-pieces there’s the Battle of Xiangyang to establish Kublai Khan as Emperor of China, Dmitry Donskoy’s power-shifting defeat of the Mongols at Kulikovo, and over in the west the Battle of Bremule to establish England as a regional power. To chart decades of Mongol conquests without mentioning the centrality of terror and massacre to their strategy, for instance, seems like a bit of a convenient oversight. The prospect of playing the game in glorious 4K on my Xbox Series X with mouse and keyboard definitely appeals to me.įor more on Age IV, check out my story about the game from back in October.It does also sometimes feel like the squeaky-clean presentation skirts around the ickier parts of history. It’s also worth mentioning that Xbox consoles also support mouse and keyboard controls.Īs someone who at one point considered buying a new gaming PC specifically to be able to play Age of Empires IV on max settings, this is good news. That said, Halo Wars 2 was able to pull it off quite well. Of course, Age of Empires IV would likely need a gamepad-focused control scheme to work well on Xbox, which could prove difficult. We have eight diverse civilizations, the graphics we want to make sure that we deliver to a spectrum of PC machines and hardware first and land that this year,” said Mann. “Our focus right now is the PC and we want to make sure the game is good. To my surprise, Mann didn’t outright deny the possibility and instead emphasized that the team was, at the time, focused on getting the PC version of the title ready for release. Prior to Age IV’s release, I spoke to Michael Mann, the executive producer at World’s Edge, about the possibility of the title releasing on Xbox consoles. While an Xbox version of the real-time strategy game has never officially been confirmed, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Age IV make its way to console. XIP_CAR_JANUARY_2022 (aka CARDINAL_JANUARY_2022) now available for internal testing in the Xbox insider HubĪccording to Video Games Chronicle ( VGC ), “CAR’ is the internal code name at Microsoft for Age of Empires IV.
It looks like Age of Empires IV ( Age IV) could make its way to Xbox consoles in the future.Īccording to the Twitter account a Twitter account that often digs through the Microsoft Insider Hub for product code names, ‘XIP_CAR_JANUARY_2022’ recently appeared in the Xbox version of the app. Microsoft is reportedly testing Age of Empires IV on Xbox consoles
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