Today's GeForce NOW update reveals the addition of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition to the cloud streaming library. This is the third Age of Empires game to be added to GeForce NOW, following Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition and Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition. It's also the seventh Microsoft/Bethesda game to be added to GFN after Gears 5, Deathloop, Grounded, and Pentiment. More will follow suit, given that Microsoft agreed with NVIDIA to bring all of its titles over.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition launched in late 2019. Developed by Forgotten Empires, it earned the wholehearted approval of resident strategy guy Chris Wray:
If I had to make one more point about Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is that it offers some of the best value for money I've ever found in a game. This is a game that will challenge you, give you hundreds of hours of gameplay through its campaigns and then an unlimited amount more through skirmishes and online. More than this, it also doesn't hold anything back, with all the old content and even some new. Also, the cheats have returned, something most companies would rather sell to you as a microtransaction these days.
So, the point of every review is really to see if the author recommends a game or not. Do I recommend Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition? Let me answer that question with a question: would you recommend a true modern remaster featuring all modern sensibilities and a top-notch AI, a game with hundreds of hours of gameplay in its campaigns and even more out of them, a game that looks and sounds great? You would. So yes, if you like strategy or Age of Empires, and even if you don't, this is one game that I can't help but recommend.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition isn't the only weekly addition to the GeForce NOW library. NVIDIA is also adding the roleplaying games OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II, including the Prologue demo of the sequel. Last but not least, The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie will also be available for streaming via GeForce NOW starting tomorrow, the day of its release on PC.
According to NVIDIA, there are over 1,600 compatible games in the GeForce NOW library. The company is supporting Microsoft's bid to acquire Activision Blizzard since part of the deal signed with NVIDIA includes bringing all the Activision Blizzard games back to GeForce NOW, where they've been missing ever since the cloud streaming platform exited beta.
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