During the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, Microsoft revealed a brand new trailer for Age of Mythology: Retold, the remake of the classic mythology-based RTS title. The trailer contains some stunning gameplay that’s been brought up to modern standards, and includes glimpses of the game’s epic expansion: The Titans.
We’ve known Age of Mythology was getting a remake for a while now, but only during this showcase has it been confirmed that we’ll be able to play it on September 4, 2024. Not only that, it’s coming to Game Pass on day one, and for me, that makes it an easy game to justify your subscription for the month with. The original was a fantastic RTS game that allowed you to explore all sorts of mythologies and use the power of the gods to help your civilization prosper while crushing others.
Age of Mythology: Retold revitalizes entire mythological planes and thrusts you into the action at the heart of its RTS gameplay
The gameplay that stood out to me most in this trailer is that which features Titans. These gigantic monsters are creatures you had to work for hours to summon. Once you did, they’d crush everything on the battlefield or clash with those your enemies had summoned. The expansion took everything the base game did so well and took it up to eleven, and I’m so glad to see that it will be included in this remake.
Age of Mythology was initially released in 2002. All my friends had been playing Age of Empires, but I’d only just gotten a PC capable of running games when this dropped, so I jumped in. As a huge RTS enthusiast and fan of ancient mythologies, this game was heaven for me, and everything that made it feel great back then has been preserved for modern audiences in this remake.
In it, you’ll take control of a civilization that, much like Kratos in the God of War series, moves between mythologies, working with the gods they encompass to build powerful settlements and fight back against the powers of evil.
You get buffs, superpowers, and units that are all themed around the god you’re worshipping at the time. Mixing and matching is possible, meaning you can craft a settlement that can knock anyone back to the stone age.
The Titans expansion added colossal beings to the game that completely changed the way you played. I believe that the remake is going to change everything again, inviting new players to the community to master base building and war between not just factions of humans, but the gods as well.
