Age Of Empires III

Just played the 'game' 3 cd version, i cant say that I am at the most thrilled with it, games of this type are getting to much alike one another...

after playing Rome this game to say the least completely SUCKS!

Yeah. RTS games tend to get old, especially when we have RTW around...

Finally...I have AOE3, it is just a copy tho. I can't play it yet because a don't have a computer to play it on. My previous computers motherboard had fried, as did the whole system. So, I might get another computer today.

I would had like it if they added Native American as a playable civilization. What a huge dissapointment.

Originally posted by Illuminati They left the game fairly open so thatt they can do an expansion later one. All big selling RTS games are created with expansions already planned.

Unfortunately, that's true. They do it just to make more profit.

Edited by Barış

The Single Player Campaign was really awkward. They really wanted to avoid a tradiitional RTS campaign, and it came out...awkward, but still interesting.

I was mostly interested in the multiplayer part of the game (which is what makes RTS fun these days), and it is pretty good. The problem is that it doesn't have a rating systems - I was totally dissapointed by this. Instead it uses a %win tag which is totally useless, so matchmaking becomes very random.

Overall, the gameplay is pretty good and offers the mulitplayer that RTW doesn't offer, even though AOE3's multiplayer has been tweaked to appease casual gamers now.


Edited by Imperator Invictus

I played the game just on Saturday at a gaming academy.  I love the game.  I am the French, go figure, they have good units.  I like the fact that the different difficulty levels are different, not like the old games how there was no difference to speak of.  I love this game.

I also don't think that AOE3 is as good as the classic Age games, but since Aoe3 has the community at this point, I guess I'll just stick to it.

Aoe3 is pretty inaccurate but it's pretty interesting. I play online as Germans and they have the most anachronistic units, such as Doppelsolders, Landsknects, and Hussite War Waggons, even though the game is supposed to span up to the 1820s. I find it really fun when German Doppelsolders with two-handed swords charge against lines of rifles and cannon.

The computer personalites are pretty neat, especially Napoleon, who is very cocky and Isabella.


Edited by Imperator Invictus

As I have played it more, I like Age 2 better then 3.  3 has better graphics no doubt, but I like Age 2 better over all

don't know about the expansion pack but still would like to say that the game itself is great.