If you spent time reading the in game histories for civilizations in previous age games, this might be the game for you. If you liked the setting of aoe2, but also kinda loved aoe3's gameplay, this might be the game for you. If you think historical documentaries are a reward, this might be the game for you. As you can guess it is the game for me.
It doesn't have amazing graphics, but you can probably play it on a laptop with just integrated graphics. I'm personally grateful they didn't sweat the graphical load. If you're trying to make the most of a rtx 3080, this won't do it for you, but it's not really for that. This is for history nerds who used the previous games to get through several history tests in school.