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5/5 |
Really, really good
(August 03, 2008) |
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Let me clear things up here - Age of Empires III is a slightly simplified game when compared to it's predecessor, the Age of Kings, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game. It is by far one of my favourite games... the civilizations are balanced and the online is great (and active). It manages to be easy to learn, but hard to master. I have been playing for about 6 months now and have only recently worked out how to properly use the British to their full advantage. Great stuff.
Pros
Beautiful graphics
Balanced gameplay
Epic musical score
Challenging online
Cons
Online can cut out and disconnect at times
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3/5 |
Not Bad but Not Great
(March 18, 2008) |
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Well, I must say I was a bit dissapointed with this game.
The graphics have been improved but nothing worth talking about.
The overall game play has also improved but come on, is that the best you can do?
Story line is better than the earlier versions but however is not very moving or creative enough.
If you compair story lines of Warcraft, Starcraft, Command Conquer, this game's story line totally sucks.
I do like the cannons, additional buildings, and cards you can use from your homeland, but the fact you can Modify your home city's image just makes me laugh as to why you would add something so pathetic to a game for.
Completely pointless.
(The more I think about it, I should have spent a bit more and just bought C&C 3)
Out of all the stategy games I play, it is not the worst, but I would rank it in the mid-lower range so I think 3 stars is more than fair enough.
Fast delivery.
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2/5 |
Age of letdown
(March 09, 2008) |
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I thought this game look good, played it a few years ago on PC and liked it so went ahead on got it for my mac. firstly, yes the graphics are very impressive, the water is beautiful. but everything else is bad. ships look like there big toys, very basic game play ( basically you build barracks and then 100 of the same type of solider and send them in, thats it ) its about as deep as a puddle. the battles are poor as well, you think that when you send in all your troops and they send in all of theirs you are in for one uber battle.....wrong, the battles are very messy so you cant see a thing and controlling your troops when they are fighting is impossible. The good thing about the battles is you get to see 'tracer shots' from cannons and guns, thses look good but add nothing to the game.
The 'Home City' part of the game is useless to, its just a part of the main mene that you can customize. In the City thought you can pick out what reinforcements you get in the game, such as more troops or recourses. But again...thats it, very basic. In fact thats how i would describe the whole game, very basic. |
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5/5 |
ULTIMATE
(August 23, 2007) |
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Age of Empires III rocks, train an army of bowman,pikeman,falconets and more.You have a fair variety of empiers and locations, send villagers to chop wood,find meat and mine, you have COMPLETE COTROL. you also drive boats and attack, graphics are top and I recomend to anyone who is BORN TO RULE!!! |
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5/5 |
A super buy for real time strategy enthusiasts
(March 20, 2007) |
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Age of Empires is known for being a state-of-the-art real time strategy (RTS) series. And this is the best installment in the series so far. It is well balanced, so all the different kinds of troops has both strengths and weaknesses - which encourages different strategies and styles of play. Just what you wan't from a RTS. The feel is good, and both graphics and sound is stunning. And it has a very rich and interesting storyline for the single player campaign.
I've played it on both Mac and PC, and it translates very well. A clear recommendation for all RTS enthusiasts. |
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