This addition can throw out the flow of some matches though as often a match can be won based on the shipments sent, without the need to build up any sort of army in a traditional RTS manner. These shipments may be something simple like crates of food, a new cannon or a couple of villagers, but it could also be something like improving mining speed or increasing food production. This experience can be used to purchase shipments from a custom made list at your home base. The first is the addition of an extra resource, experience. In my mind this is something truly wonderful, it would have been easy for the developers to simply shrug their shoulders and brush it off as a product of its time, so this extra effort should be congratulated.įor those that never played AoE3 the gameplay, while very similar to the previous entries, has had some interesting tweaks that you will either love or hate. What immediately impressed me however is the fact that as I booted up the game I was greeted with a screen explaining that the developers had gone back over the story, with help from indigenous peoples, and changed offensive depictions, improving accurate representation and overall making the game more historically accurate. At this time, telling a good story in an RTS was still something of a novelty, Blizzard had some success with Starcraft and Warcraft 3, but otherwise, everything was cheesy and hamfisted (I am looking at you Command and Conquer.) This still holds true today and these rollicking tales of discovery and destruction are just as entertaining. This was primarily due to the fantastic campaigns that featured in both the main game and two hefty expansions. Fast forward to 2020 and that daring approach may just mean that this title holds up in modern times better than than the other entries in the franchise.įor me, AoE3 was actually the game in the franchise I played the most. Despite that though, it was still a fantastic RTS experience in its own right and one that dared to shake up the established formula.
It wasn’t ever as revered as AoE2: Age of Kings and there seems to be this feeling that perhaps in attempting to keep it fresh, Ensemble created an unbalanced game. Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition – War Is Not The Only Path PCĪge of Empires 3 was something of a different beast for Microsoft when it released in 2005.
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