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You know I start at least one post a month with a seemingly tangential zoology metaphor, and I’m afraid you just hit this month’s. Because when I think about Age Of Mythology, I think ofGomphotherium. Why do I think of a weird, extinct elephant? Because it was a perfectly good ‘phant, is why, and a definite improvement on previous iterations on the theme of “Big Grey Lads”. But alas, its sister cladesElephasandLoxodontaenjoyed a combination of greater efficiency and better luck, and gave rise to the hose-nosed champions we know and love today. Similarly,Age Of Mythologywas a perfectly good game, but it was a diversion from the standard formula of the Age Of… series, and as it turned out, it was the main branch that would end up surviving to the present day.

But while AoE2 got a direct sequel, and is now getting another in the form of Age Of Empires 4,Age of Mythologygot an expansion in 2003, a collected Steam edition in 2014, and a new expansion in 2016 - but no AoM2. I suppose with AoE4 in the works, such a thing is now unlikely, but what a treat an unexpected return would be. It would be theTotal War: Warhammerof the standard RTS genre, and I reckon that sounds like a pretty fine thing.