Age of Mythology Retold is coming out this year and should look a lot better than the original. But the question is: to what extent?
According to our previous news, Age of Mythology will make its comeback in 2022 under the title AoM Retold, a version that sits between a Definitive Edition and a Remaster. A video presentation was recently released giving an overview of the upcoming new features. Long-time fans will certainly be thrilled. Significant effort has been made to modernize the game, particularly through graphical improvements brought up to 2024 standards. To see for themselves, fans even created a before and after with various screenshots.
Before/After Age of Mythology
Many gamers will agree that graphics aren’t everything in a video game. Far from it. And it’s even entirely possible to have a title of remarkable beauty, but with gameplay that’s difficult to match or keep up with. There are numerous examples throughout the history of video games, there’s no need to rub salt in the wound. But in the case of a remaster, graphical quality is a very large part of the work, if not all of it. In the case of Age of Mythology, you should expect day and night. Or almost.
In fact, savvy fans had the intelligence to create a before and after image to compare the original game to the remaster trailer. And we must admit that the result is obvious. While not necessarily a complete metamorphosis, we note the immense beauty gap between the 2002 version and Age Of Mythology Retold. In fact, a player named E_M_A_N_R_E_S_U simply tried to recreate the remaster’s promotional images with images from the base game, which inevitably made a pretty crazy comparison. You can find the result via the link famous forum
A beautiful promise of beauty
At the same time, another user was named JustABaleenWhale attempted the same work with an almost complete overlay of locations. We can notice: nicer textures, better lighting, nicer particle effects and overall more details. In any case, as we know, the improvements include the adoption of graphics updates and the game engine developed for Age of Empires 3 Definitive Edition. In addition, this new version introduces ray tracing technology, increases the population limit and integrates a new special effects engine.