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List Price: $29.99
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Manufacturer: Microsoft
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224043281
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: Start out playing as the British and begin with a solid economy, or lead the French into an easy alliance with Native Americans - 8 total civilizations to choose from
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Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Microsoft
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Model: G10-00025
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Microsoft
Release Date: 2005-10-18
Studio: Microsoft
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Features
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Start out playing as the British and begin with a solid economy, or lead the French into an easy alliance with Native Americans - 8 total civilizations to choose from
Work with Native Americans to your tactical advantage, for the first time ever
Develop your own Home City, and customize it make it wealthier and more powerful as you take over Europe
Explore the New World and create colonies while seeking out new resources and making alliances with the Native Americans
Recover buried treasure from the Caribbean, hunt bison on the Great Plains, compete for trade routes and fortify the coast of New England
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Editorial Reviews:
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Age Of Empires 3 is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed strategy game. It introduces all-new gameplay elements, new civilizations to discover, random maps to conquer and a single-player campaign unlike any other. A.I. opponents are now well-developed characters with deep strategies, motivations, and personalities-and more than 4,000 audio taunts at their disposal New lighting and shadow effects, in a game world designed to have real physics and depth -- you'll almost feel like you're there The first 3D iteration of the series uses bump- and tone-mapping to render realistic water and shadows Havok engine's cause-and-effect physics bring battles to lurid life
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the best game all time
Comment: This is one of the best game of al time. I have always been a huge fan of real time strategy game, and Age of Empire series have always been consistant in its delivery of strategy, graphic, and gaming. Age of Empires III raises the bar to another level, and this is a must have for any gamer, both for Macintosh and for PC. The add on's - Warchiefs and Asian Dynasty are both terrific. I love this so much I have both Mac and PC versions.
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Summary: I still prefer Age of Empires 2
Comment: I have AoE 1, 2, and 3. Theres no point in playing AoE 1 as AoE 2 is much better. So scratch AoE 1, that includes Rise of Rome. AoE 2 is the game I fell in love with. AoE 2: Conquerors Expansion more specifically. I once moved out of my home state and left the CD in my old computer. I realized this and I had to purchase another one just for the fact its a game I MUST have. Even though I dont plan on playing it, I need it by me at all times ... just in case. And what about AoE 3? I have it, but I never play it lol. I play AoE 2: CE instead. I just finished playing some of AoE 3 cause Im trying to find a reason to like it. I still prefer AoE 2, and here is my review of AoE 3 ...
At first glance it looks very creative and it has beautiful graphics. Very life like almost. You're introduced to some new differences from AoE 2 and they can be hard to pick up on. In fact, its a lot different in many ways. Finding treasures is new. Indian Settlements are new. Having a home town with "cards" is new. The cost for buildings are higher so its hard for me anyway to decide what is the best option for me. The problem I have with the game though is that its too quick! And the graphics seem too small. In my screen view, I can only see the town center and half of 2 other buildings I built around it. So its very hard to manage. It goes so fast such that when you build a manor (house) you receive an extra villager! I hate having to go back once a house is built to send that villager off to do something. Experience is gained so fast that I notice I have 3 cards waiting in my home city. And when I use them, its like ... well I didnt really need them, I was doing fine building my town in "the New World" on my own. So you have shipments coming in, settlers popping up, the settlers you have to chop down wood, or gather food they dont need a mill or lumber camp nearby so they gather resources really fast and eventually run out. Having to send them off somewhere else. And then you have your explorer, gotta keep him moving around the map to find indians and treasures. In the meantime you're just trying to build your economy / military in which honestly, you can grow a HUGE military and settlers in no time at all. Within 10 minutes, I had a church, created a few priests, created like 20 military guys, created 10 archers, created 2 grenadiers, I had 3 outpost wagons. And I have a whole bunch of crates in front of my town center that came from the home city I dont really need! They're just sitting there, so I have to manage a settler to open them what have you. So theres a lot to manage you dont really know where to start. I just pumped out a bunch of military guys and situated them around my town. Kind of felt like I won the game right then lol. A word to the enemies: Good luck trying to get through! I didnt need to make contact with Indians, or find treasure. I just sat there creating settlers to gather resources, then build buildings, then build a military. I have resources up the ying yang and theres no enemy coming to attack. I had to turn the game off cause Im sitting there with a HUGE military and I havent even sent my explorer out yet lol.
So how does this relate to AoE 2? AoE 2 was REAL STRATEGY! I have old notebooks I recently found in the garage I was looking through where I wrote down my strategy in the game. Those were the good old days. Like "build a second wall in NE corner of empire" ... "kill the villager trying to build a castle to the east outside the gates" ... "there will be 2 enemy monks carrying Relics south of us, so send out 5 cavalry, and create 2 monks". "Try to defeat the enemy civ to the west of us as we will then control the south western portion of the map, they also have extra resources on that land, and 1 relic I believe". If we can conquer that land, the civ to the north of them is small so they can be taken out as well. Build a strong defense on the eastern side of empire, and start an offensive on the west". THAT is a strategy game. When you have to pause the game every 15 seconds and think everything through. Constantly saving it, planning and managing your resources. I cant see that being done with AoE 3. I had a friend who played all the campaigns on it and he said he liked it. Im sure its an ok game to play as far as campaigns go. But AoE 2 is the REAL RTS if thats what you're looking for. This game seems it can be fun to some extent. You have a home city, theres treasure and indians (kinda lame though, like a treasure is guarded by 2 black bears that instantly die from 5 musketeers before they even deal damage lol, ok whats the point of that? And when I gathered the treasure I have no idea what i received. Probably a couple hundred gold I really didnt need cause I had 8 guys on the silver mine and a few unopened crates). Oh and you receive extra resources when you choose a "politician" when you advance to the next level so that adds MORE free resources you have enough of! R&D did the best they can to create a fun game. Its not the game for me though. Too fast, hard to manage, somewhat boring / easy and not very strategic. I also couldnt find the hotkey option in the game??
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best RTS Period
Comment: Getting sick of your everyday scifi shooter or fantasy rpg, well then try out Age of Empires 3 the most fun and addicting rts out there. This game is well balanced, has good graphics for rts, and has persistent home cities to keep you playing. Whether a fan of the series or a newcomer to rts games you wont be disappointed by Age of Empires 3.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Satisfying
Comment: I have had this game for a few months now and have grown to really love it. There are certain features that I love and others that I could do without. In this game they got rid of the need for lumber mills, gold mining mills and restocking your farm with wood. All awesome upgrades because you have enough to worry about without keeping an eye on all your villagers and buildings. Another great feature is the Home Town, which can periodically send your civilization resources and upgrades. Not only do you get the already addicting game play but you now have goals for leveling up and earning cards that can later help your civilization during battles. My complaints are as this, you dont have as much flexibility when setting up a match. It is either a free for all or you can have two teams. Also the map choices are limited. And I agree the zoom is a well missed feature. The graphics are awesome, main game is challenging, and it will most definately provide hours of fun even for first timers. Give this game a try!
Customer Rating:
Summary: tween AND husband LOVE this game!
Comment: put it this way, my husband had a sore back because he played the game for four hours nonstop one day! (and this is out of character!!)
my tween daughter also enjoys it. it has been worth every penny.....and the novelty of playing hasn't worn off for months.
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