Age of War

The old classic, brought to Android. It's well implemented, but that's about it - it's the same old game we used to play on the internet, nothing new or improved. The real reason for two stars comes from the audacity to charge around €3.60 for an expansion that adds ten distinct characters to fight. These characters are gimmicks; and artificially inflated in difficulty (i.e., being described to use a strategy but really just being an age ahead of you and having 4x unit health compared to you).

I played this when it was a browser game back in the day. They've brought it back as a mobile game and it works brilliantly in this format. You can play with no paying and no ads. It's pretty simple gameplay but becomes challenging in harder difficulties and generals mode. Completing achievements kept me entertained for a good while, and there's only one I couldn't eventually get without paying for hacked mode. So glad they've given us the original music, too!

Honestly, I don't have any problems with the actual gameplay. It's a lovely nostalgia game. The only reason I dropped a star is the sound. There's a sound option once you enter a match, but it's ACTUALLY a music option. It turns off the music, but the sound of troops and turrets still goes. Which is a problem for me as I can't hear my YT video playing on the mini-player with these sounds blasting out.