Age of Castles Review

Age of Castles is by far my favorite strategy game of this type, the attention to detail and the leveling up are very unique to the title. I find myself playing for hours and hours, missing dinner and later getting myself a late night snack just so I can level up to the level 5 Wizard. I love how the little builders can be seen around and on the castle, hammering away, endlessly. The enemies that come to fight you and take your kingdom are so varied, one minute your fighting a dragon, the next a demon army, I Love it!. You get to choose from 5 differnt kings, one is a bit of a wizard or and he collects scrolls and often gives you 50 gems or more. Another is more of your traditional knight, he stregthens your army and your defence giving more people as you go. The Dwarf king is there to give you money over time and help build your castle.

There is a map and on this map are over a dozen areas for you and your castle to move to, when you level up it would behoove you to move to a new location otherwise you will start loseing people and resources. You move from place to place, meeting new people who either want to join your kingdom ie. Elves, or want to destroy it ie. Orcs or Trolls. All the places are displayed in the background behind your castle when you arrive there and they are very interesting to look at. Added to the atmophere is the occasional storm or snow storm just to aggetate you a little bit more.

I love the overall look of the game, I've played it for countless hours, and the music is good as well but it doesn't have much variance. Overall I give it a 4 out of 5 stars.