Age Of Empires III

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $40.37

Features:

• Explore uncharted territories to stake your claim in the New World
• Command powerful rifled infantry and a naval fleet
• Gain valuable experience to level-up your HomeCity and strengthen your economy, technology, and military
• Lead one of 8 civilizations - Spanish, French, British, Dutch, Russian, German, Portuguese, and Ottoman
• Fully 3D graphics, destructible environments and dynamic physics

Accessories:

PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

DO NOT BUY!! [Posted on 2007-08-11]
AGE OF EMPIRES III SUCKS!!! It's so boring and repetitive!! Buy the previous game instead; AGE of Empires II and The Conquerors expansion!!

Another ADDICTIVE Entry to the AoE Series! [Posted on 2008-01-21]
What a wonderful game! It's story blends pirates, soldiers, villagers, pioneers, natives, legends, history, etc. and it's gameplay is simply revolutionary. I believe the AoE series has gotten progressively better, topping itself at this third installment. The graphics are gorgeous, the gameplay is very addictive, the voice acting and score are both wonderful, and the story is excellent.

Good time killer. [Posted on 2008-02-13]
This game is good way to kill an hour if you have one to kill. The games main storylines are decent but it is very to tell who was good and who was bad just on their voices alone. The storyline was also pretty predictable. The gameplay is right on par with the other age of empire games in the sense of he who produces the most the fastest wins. Playing the skirmish mode and developing the home city and your deck gives you reason to keep playing if your one of those completionist types. Aside from that in skirmish mode the computer is pretty predictable and anyone with any RTS background should be able to handle it fine except on hard where I believe the computer is given a handicap I have only beaten a hard computer with a team not one on one. The units are pretty well balanced and there are definately easier country's to play as then others and it comes down to your style of play which is usually a turtle or an attacker. I give this game a four out five because it is fun, it looks great, and it has some interesting concepts associated with it (homecities, deck building, etc) however like most AOE games the gameplay gets to be pretty repetitive if you sit down to often and to long to play it.

Maybe it's me... [Posted on 2008-04-29]
...but I was a big fan of the first AOE. I play on a Mac, and one disappointing aspect of version 3 for me is that they made it so you have to right click for certain commands and left click for others. Since a Mac really only has one mouse button, in my experience it "misses" commands often if you don't click the one button correctly. Version 1 had a "command + click" control and in my opinion it was a lot easier. Sounds stupid, but when you're in the middle of getting attacked after playing the game for an hour, it really gets frustrating when you can't even give commands properly. Cool game, and great graphics, but they should have built in an option for "Classic Controls" or something. Quit trying to make my Mac a PC!

Age of Empires didn't get worse; other games got better [Posted on 2008-05-01]
I think this is a really fun game. It has lots to do and some nice improvements over Age 2. The reason people don't seem to be liking this one so much is that it's nothing revolutionary. Age of Empires 2 was far better than other games in the genre, and AOE 3 isn't, but it's still a great game that's well worth the money.

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