The Energon Pub

Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:17 am

Warcraft - the fantasy RTS series

vs.

Age of Empires - the Historic RTS series

The Sword · Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:55 pm

Age of Empires.They have a large selection of units and I think that their unit production limit is 200.

Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:12 am

good point... but

Warcraft has four different races each with unique units and structures... while age of empires has different races but everyone has the same thing.

Plus warcraft has WOrld of warcraft and age of empires doesnt have anything like that

Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:35 pm

Gigastorm wrote:good point... but

Warcraft has four different races each with unique units and structures... while age of empires has different races but everyone has the same thing.

Plus warcraft has WOrld of warcraft and age of empires doesnt have anything like that

9 million strong!

Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:06 pm

DesalationReborn wrote:
Gigastorm wrote:good point... but

Warcraft has four different races each with unique units and structures... while age of empires has different races but everyone has the same thing.

Plus warcraft has WOrld of warcraft and age of empires doesnt have anything like that

9 million strong!

Warcraft is expanding its range of games... from RTS to RPG while age of empires is sticking with rts

News Credits: 226 · Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:20 pm

As single player games i've thoroughly enjoyed both and it's a tough call, provided of course you exclude Age of Empires 3.

I just found that to be a bloated, resource hogging, piece of crap and a massive step backwards from the previous two.

Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:30 pm

Both have become major franchises for their respective game developers. i'd say Age of Empires but it would be a split decision.

Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:29 am

Im a AOE fan so im gonna be backing them.

Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:03 am

I like both games but i think warcraft is better. Because in age of empires 3 and warcraft 3 both games explored the hero characters a little more. But in age of empires the hero was strong but if he/she died you lost which sucked. While in warcraft 3 heroes could be revived from altars and be summoned from altars. Only in certain missions would the death of the hero mean defeat. which are ones with no structures. Plus the heroes could learn 4 skills depending on their hero class. while in age of empires the heroes only had a specific skill