Age of Mythology: Extended Edition

Age of Mythology: Extended Edition

Released in 2002, Age of Mythology is a legendary game that I grew up with. I used to play this game all the time, and am pleased to finally write this review. This game is a real time strategy game based around war, in ancient times. Whats unique  about this game is that in this game you may train mythical beasts ranging from the Greek Cyclops to mighty Titans. This game is played on the computer, it can be played online. I play it on steam.

Gods and their benefits

Though the Titans are only in the extended versions of the game. This game is filled with many civilisations: the Greek, the Norse, the Egyptians, The Atlantans, and the Chinese. The original game only included Greek, Egyptians, and Norse. When you play, before the game commences, you must choose one major god to worship.

Each of the civilisations have 3 different gods:

Greek: Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades

Egyptians: Isis, Ra, and Set

Norse: Thor, Odin, and Loki

Atlantean: Gaia, Oranos, and Kronos

Chinese: Fu Xi, Nu Wa, and Shennong

Each civilisation has its own unique strategy, benefiting certain aspects of your arsenal. Each god benefits another part of your army, with the benefit of the civilisation (Example: Hades benefits his archers, and the Greeks have strong infantry).  With each god comes 6 minor gods with each of their own improvements to your army. You may choose 3 to advance through the ages, each of them give you unique god powers,  powers you may call upon at any time of the game to assist you, economically, or assist your army.

Advancing through the ages

There are 4 ages in the game, In the Archaic age, you have almost no military, and limited technologies. It is useful to scout the area for food sources, and gold during this time. 

During the archaic age, you main aim is to gather resources and set up a basic economy. 

In the Classical age, you have basic military, and some technology. During this time, what I do is try to build a small army to fend off enemy attacks and perfect my economy.  

Then come the Heroic age, when you get your palaces, large buildings that withstand heavy attack and gives you a larger choice of military to attack with. At this time, you get siege weapons to tear down buildings. The heroic age is the time at which you need to set up trade routes to substitute for gold mines, and build up your army and upgrade it. At this time many people launch small attacks on their enemies to cripple their economies. 

The final age is the Mythic age, the time at which you must upgrade and attack! You get powerful units and god powers to crush your opponents! In the Mythic age with certain upgrades, you can get a Titan to fight for you,  and research omniscience, which allows you to see all that your enemies see!

Types of Units

Each unit in the game is strong against one other type of unit and weak against a different unit (almost like Pokémon). There are 3 main unit types: Infantry, Heroes, and Myth units. 


This game has tons of information embedded inside of it, and is a brilliant game to play. Each unit or building has a description of how significant it was in history (with exceptions on things like goats or pigs). There are many fun cheats in the game. To use a cheat, you must type the cheat in all caps in game. The cheats are so unique and funny, like GOATUNHEIM is a cheat that gives you the god power to make every unit in the game a goat.
I live this game and have learnt so much and I hope you will too so good luck and have fun!