Roulette

"Worst Age of Empires game in the franchise" is a bit of an understatement. "Worst RTS release of the past 5 years" is more suitable. I waited until after the first patch was released before posting any sort of review anywhere online, and wow, I'm glad I waited. The "Patch" that was supposed to fix major bugs and add new 'Legendary' content to the game didn't do much more than introduce game-crushing lag, 2 new Dupe exploits, and recycled end-game Quests with the difficulty dialed up to 11. No new content, just new bugs and new reasons to never play this game ever again. To make matters worse, the GPG/MS team has decided to take the ever-popular stance of banning players who are critical of the game on their forums. Adding to all of this is the ridiculous pricing model which has the stink of Microsoft all over it. Stay very far away from this game.