https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/nov/11/age-of-empires-4-review-relic-entertainment

PC, Microsoft/Relic EntertainmentRelic returns with this safe but solid modern revitalisation of the classic real-time strategy series

Back in 2003, BBC2 show Time Commanders somewhat sneakily used the strategy game Rome: Total War as the basis for its entire high concept: to give normal people the chance to take on military leaders in famous historical battles. In Age of Empires 4, each campaign mission is driven by documentary narration and bookended by featurettes on everything from the supremacy of the English longbow to the tactical application of Mongolian whistling arrows. Total War’s Time Commanders appearance was never the plan, but AOE 4 feels like it could have been designed deliberately for a BBC edutainment slot.