 AOE III - The full version |
| Review Date: November 8, 2005 |
| Reviewer: , |
| After having played this game for the past few days, I can tell you all that this game is simply a natural continuation of the legendary Age Of Empires series. I have played the previous two and their addons for years, and this game is an improvement in virtually every way. Graphically this game is beautiful and some of the effects are just wonderful. The weapons feel powerful and the ship -v- ship battles are just stunning. My graphics card is a 256 MB Radeon X600 and on any setting this game works well. Playing the game is very interesting. There are now limits on the number of some things you can build - such as ships. The villages are now much better, and they do a lot with out being told. if they are idle and there is something obvious to do nearby - they will do it. Home cities are a wonderful advancement in the game giving it a much more satisfying feel. The more you play the game the better the things you can have sent to you after every few minutes in the game. You gain experience for gathering resources etc., and then this allows you to ship in some extra coin, or eventually a mini army!!! The campaigns are easy to get into and follow a nice family tale where you can somewhat empathise with the leaders you control. The objectives for the missions are no longer - kill everyone - but there are more specific objectives - one mission is simply to gain experience! Though most of this game is strong, the one futile thing is treasures. Dotted around the map there are small treaures guarded by, say, a pack of wild bears. After using your explorer to kill the guardian, you can take the bounty - this is often a very small amount of coin etc. However, sometimes you get rewarded with a special warrior or some settlers, so its not all bad! Overall a very good game, bound to provide hours of fun. The effects when blowing stuff up are very satisfying, and the overall style of the game is extremely finished - a wonderful improvement on a wonderful series of games. I thoroughly recommend you purchase this game. |
Amazing!! Do not listen to bad reviews!!
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| Review Date: October 28, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Mr. D. C. Lambert, |
Like many age of empires fans, i have waited a long time for the 3rd in the series. Was it worth the wait? YES!! Before buying it almost a week ago, i read almost every review on amazon. Most people said it was really dull or boring gameplay. Do not listen to them, i did at first and it almost put me off buying it. But then i started watching videos on google etc. looking at what the battles and that looks like. It looked ok. but then me and and a friend started looking further into it. We thought we would see if they had a downloadable demo. And after typing the obvious "download age of empires 3 demo" it came up with many websites. Looking more reliable, we tried the microsoft webiste. We downloaded it, and quite frankly couldn't stop playing it! We loved it! So the day after, i got the full version. Many reviews i have read say that single player is dull, i disagree, its only dull when you compare it to multiplayer. If you buy this game, i 100% advise you to try AOE online, providing you can of course. even though the game has been out almost a year now, there are always at least 1,700 other players online, and at night, it usually goes up to around 3,000, so there's plenty of people to play.
There are so many good things about this game. The gameplay has improved slightly, the graphics are just immense, even on a less powerful graphics card. I will not say much more, but what i will say is if you have played any age of empires, or other RTS games before, and you liked them, i suggest trying this beast! I cannot stop playing it. Yes multiplayer is very challenging, but what fun is a game you can just walk through with your eyes shut, it just makes you wanna get better, so you keep trying! So if you are looking for an enjoyable, addictive, highly fun game, then this is it!
I hope this review has helped you. |
Impressive
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| Review Date: February 12, 2006 |
| Reviewer: bob, UK |
In response to one persons review, there are formations: you just have to activate them from the in-game pause menu.
Secondly, the gameplay is not sluggish, and similar in many respects to aoe2. The introduction of the home city is a nifty idea, and quite useful if you are about to get slaughtered.
The fact that villagers do not take resources to a certain building speeds up resource collecting, which I find useful, and all round I think it is a great game, well worth buying.
The only fault I can find is that there are only 8 playable civilisations, but allies make up for this.
Very impressive game, well worth buying |
AOE 3
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| Review Date: November 21, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Shoe2190, |
This game was a gamei overheard some people talking about on the school bus so being a fan of age of mythology i though give it a go so i went out and spent the best 30 quid of my life. I would play forever if only there wernt life pressing matters. It has been well thought out and made simple while not lacking anything (the only think i think it needs is some extra population) The computer difficulty is perfect as expert still presents a challenge now and online you can find a game for your difficulty. This is the best game i own and only the X packs and mabye AOE 4 will be better. I have at least four other RTS games includeing supreme commander but they just gather duct and are no contest.
Hope this was useful and ill see you online if you get there. |
Age Of Empires is as good as ever
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| Review Date: October 28, 2007 |
| Reviewer: AirGuitarHero, London |
Age of Empires 3 has a fulfilling campaign of about 30 levels and wonderfully playable multiplayer which can be played iver ESO or LAN where you can play supremecy or deathmatch. The units are well balanced out and there are at least two unique units for each civilisation. The civilisations are all really well matched and are all good at different things. For example the french have powerful cavalry, the germans and british have a strong economy and the russians can attack very fast.
By increasing the influence of multiple damage (eg a skirmisher does 2x damage on other infantry) it requires a lot more of a strategic approach than its predecesors. (On aoe2 i tended to be persian and kill everything with war elephants).
There usually between 1000 and 2000 people online at any given time on multiplayer. And ESO introduced a ranking system where you start of as a conscript and when your good enough you go to private, then lance corporal and so and so forth. The only wierd thing that i've recently found is that on supremecy im a lvl 14 and can competely obliterate a computer on hard difficulty, whereas on deathmatch im lvl 15 and can't quite kill a computer on hard difficulty.
But i definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys these types of games. |
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