Originally Posted by
Battleship789
It's incredibly obvious if you've played AoE 2 before, even looking at screenshots of AoE 2 will probably feel a little familiar to you. While the game isn't a 1-to-1 reskin (for instance, there aren't any air units in AoE2), the two games are incredibly similar. Not just in the engine (since the games use the same one), but the way the tech is structured, the number of different resources, the minimal differences between factions, the correspondence between units in the two games (as you've already noticed), etc.