Age of Empires III (PC)

This game is one i highly receommend for users who like strategic online games. Basically you all start with one country and progress through time building up your empire. You are usually in two teams and after a certain time you begin to go to war, using many of the differernt types of units available. Each civilisaton has its own specific types of unit which make the game much more interesting. You can also play this game in single player mode and prgress through each stage until you win. This part, in my opihnion is not as good as the online multiplayer gane sas there isnt as much competitiveness through the game. The style of the game makes it very easy to ...  Read the complete review

My other half bought me this game for Christmas 06 and I have not stopped playing it! You can either play the game by yourself, working your way through the scenarios given to you in the basic package or you can go on line and play against the world!! Whenever I have logged on there has been anywhere from 1,000 to over 4,000 people on line at any one time depending on the time of day and day of the week. The graphics are brilliant, you can choose a variety of countries to play as and each country has a different strategy and strong attributes. You can choose to play a long "no rush" game say 45 mins which gives you time to build your ...  Read the complete review

We play this religiously with mates each week at a gaming cafe, single player mode is verty good multiplayer mode is better. The graphics are very good the sound the same the gameplay is intelligent your troops versus their troops are rock paper scissors style archers against infantry spearmen defeat cavalry and cavalry archers, there is strategy and resource management. It is not like command and conquer with only one resource and click drag get all the troops to attack mass an army. You need strategy and its a much more intelligent ...  Read the complete review

Age of Empires 3 is, ironically enough, the third instalment of the highly successful 'Age of Empires' title. Although fans of age of empires 2 had to wait 6 years for the new release, I believe it was worth it. Age of Empires III is a real time strategy game where you play as 1 of 8 major European Civilization as they fight for land and riches on the New World. The games controls haven't really changed that much from the second one, but even if you are a novice they are easy to pick up with the 'learn to play' mode and a lot of the buildings keep their original functions, however a brand new selection of units have been created due to the usage of gunpowder. ...  Read the complete review

Age of Empires 3 (AOE3) is the third instalment in the ‘Age of Empires’ franchise, actually the fourth if you include the spin off ‘Age of Mythology’ (and Titans expansion) from the sequence. The premise of the original game was to create a real time strategy game to rival the excellent turn based Civilisation series concentrating more on battles and rather less of on economic and cultural affairs. The game itself has always been far less complex to play than Civ, which has meant it has been a lot more popular with younger gamers and those more used to simple shoot ‘em ups rather than strategy based games. THE IDEA BEHIND THE GAME AOE3 is no ...  Read the complete review