I grew up on this game when it first came out, and now that the Definitive Edition has been released with new content (USA! USA!), it's rekindled my love of Age of Empires, stemming from when I played the very first one as a Kindergartener.

The game's awesome, the Shipment Cards are awesome, the AI personalities are a breath of fresh air for the series, I feel the civs are balanced for the strengths they're supposed to be played for, and all in all, it just makes me giddy.

I grew up on this game when it first came out, and now that the Definitive Edition has been released with new content (USA! USA!), it's rekindled my love of Age of Empires, stemming from when I played the very first one as a Kindergartener. The game's awesome, the Shipment Cards are awesome, the AI personalities are a breath of fresh air for the series, I feel the civs are balanced for the strengths they're supposed to be played for, and all in all, it just makes me giddy.