Once things start getting crowded however, and you have multiple armies, cities and AI civs duking it out on the map, things start getting a bit messy. Starting units don’t have flashy attacks and your won’t run into large enemy armies as well.

The game starts off fairly well, with a stable 30 frames. By favoring a higher resolution, the interface is rendered at 4k, with 3D world rendered in 1440p, the game looks crisp and sharp.įor the rest of the review, we will refer to the base PS4 in terms of performance. Resolution Mode on the other hand does exactly what you expect it to do. Performance mode makes the game run faster: 1080p with a boost in frame rate and even when things get heavy, you can expect a constant 30 FPS. On the PS4 Pro, you can toggle between performance mode and resolution mode. On the base PS4, it runs at 1080p with a locked 30 frames per second. Technical PerformanceĪge of Wonders: Planetfall is an enormous game with so many moving parts that we are honestly surprised the game runs as good as it does. Fortunately, the folks at Triumph Studios have managed to make the control scheme for Age of Wonders: Planetfall easy for even new players, and does a fantastic job on the technical fronts as well to make this game feel right at home on consoles. This meant that the consoles were left alone, and starved from a great genre. Traditionally strategy games have been at home on the PC, where the keyboard and mouse offered a degree of flexibility that allowed for swift execution of commands as well as fine control over units and buildings. If you haven’t read our review of Age of Wonders yet, here’s the review of the base game, the Revelations expansion, and the latest Invasions expansion. We’ve played close to 200 hours of the main game and expansions, and we don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.

Age of Wonders: Planetfall has been consistently one of our most favorite games of the past year.

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