They're fun/good and have some cool new mechanics (a lot of which shared with the Mexico civ). But man that text to speech voice acting on the villagers is just embarrassing, especially coming from Microsoft. It's not even AI, it's the robotic text to speech you'd hear on a meme youtube video from 10 years ago. If it were some obscure language ok, maybe I could see it, but it's literally American English lmao. One of the easiest languages on earth to find a voice actor for. Like I (with zero experience or training) could just get on my headset mic and provide better voice acting for the villagers than what we got. They literally could've just had some dev do it themselves, go on craigslist, idk literally anything would've been better than what they did. The words don't even super make sense, like you'll task them with building and they go "carpenter." Some unit VA is recycled from campaign characters (which is less bad, but still kind of silly). Buy this on sale.
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