Question about custom maps/scenarios

[InkSix]

I used to play Age of Empires II : The Conquerors a lot. But, I didn't play it in the traditional sense. All I liked to play were the custom scenarios built around auto team death match sort of arena games.

The most notable of these was Germs Blood, where you had the arena, and a small island away from the area that had nothing but 1 copy of your available units. You placed that unit on the flag, and in the arena a count of 20 (or ten if you spawned two units) would spawn for you to do battle with.

AoC was also a wealthy game for custom RPG games and tower defense games.

Now my question is, are game like this possible? I love RTS in the traditional sense, but I have many fond memories of the custom games built in AoC, and I miss it so. That community is all but dead in AoEIII and people just play in traditionally.

I hope someone here also went through what I'm talking about so they can understand best.

 

[TremendousLion]

Starcraft 2 has one of the most extensive map editors in the RTS-verse. There are loads of possible games you can play, just search through custom games and map hosting sites.

 

[Cut Chem!st]

Yes, there is tons of those kind of custom games, Starcraft II even has more possibilities with the editor so the customs are 10x better than the AoE ones . Marine arena is one example of what your talking about.

 

[InkSix]

Hmm, crap I guess I'll have to get SC2 after all.

 

[? Frisky Dingo ?]

Its an awesome game and nothing really like aoe3 (which I used to play a lot of). It also looks awesome and while it seems easy to play against the AI, its much much harder to play against others when you first start playing but you will find your groove and im sure you will enjoy this game a lot more than aoe3 as i do.