Age of Kings is destined for stardom.
It's taken all the good things from its' predecessor, Age of Empires , including great graphics, intuitive game play, and multiple difficulty levels, and done nothing but improve on them. There is so much new to talk about. The crew from Ensemble Studios has done a complete redesign on the buildings, bringing them into scale with the characters and adding those special touches they're famous for, including a donkey that mills the grain. One of my favorite is the Trebuchet, a semi-mobile siege weapon that you can pack into a cartand move and unpack elsewhere. True to the AOE philosophy of balanced power, the Trebuchet has the longest range, but is quite fragile to attack.