Hopefully it will be better than 3. Not a huge fan of that one.
That was the first and best game of my childhood from 4th to 10th grade
Compared to 2, 3 was pretty bad.
I played 1,2, and 3, but I must say I found AOE 2 the best.
For some reason AOE II quit playing on the XP machine circa 2009/2010. I never really did find out why, but figured it was an update or something. So I only get to play it when I dig the old Windows 98 machine out of the closest, and that is very rarely.
And ever since I put an HD7770 video card in the Windows Seven machine, it won't play anything that came out before 2006, also because of an update.
You can just check the box that makes the game compatible on a Windows 10 PC, like I do.