| Age Of Empires III | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1095
Format: Cd
Platform: Macintosh
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 100722
Model: 10324
UPC: 828068103248
EAN: 0828068103248
ASIN: B000HZRLIM
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Explore uncharted territories to stake your claim in the New World | | • | Command powerful rifled infantry and a naval fleet | | • | Gain valuable experience to level-up your Home City and strengthen your economy, technology, and military | | • | Lead one of 8 civilizations - Spanish, French, British, Dutch, Russian, German, Portuguese, and Ottoman | | • | Fully 3D graphics, destructible environments and dynamic physics |
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Product Description
You've landed on the New World. Ready to stake your claim? So is everybody else. So have some before you. Many will follow after you. How do you attain satisfaction, wealth, and power? Then manage to keep it? It takes lots of strategic thinking. If you think other are standing idylly by, you're wrong. It's going to be rough and nasty. Crush your enemies with devastating cannons, rifled, infantry, and your naval fleet. Build a thriving empire with a booming economy. Form strategic alliances with Native Americans. UNIVERSAL BINARY - Works with both Intel and PowerPC Macs GameSpy Top 5 Game of the Year 2005 award System Requirements (tentative) - Macintosh computer with a G4/G5 or Intel processor running at 1.4GHz or faster, Mac OS X v10.3.9 or higher, 512MB RAM, 64 MB Video Card (with support for hardware T & L). 56K dial-up Internet access or LAN for online play
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Terrible, worse than the last edition! August 4, 2008
This game is not an improvement over the previous edition. I would not recommend buying this.
Reasons why it sucks:
-The graphics aren't that great.
-You can only see a small area of the playing field at once.
-You have to build up civilizations over time, you can't take full advantage of their attributes immediately.
-I hate the card system, it's lame.
-You can't double-click to select all the units of one type in an area.
-No real improvements over the last game, just different. As in crappier.
 Excellent But Archers on the Plains of Abraham? July 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent strategy game. I am very interested in colonial and Eighteenth Century warfare so I enjoy the era and the animations of musket loading pioneers and soldiers. It mimics linear tactics although it is not an exact reproduction. The naval warfare is also good although you will not see ships in linear formation.
There is a definite improvement over Age of Empires II in that there are very real differences between the cultures that require differing strategies when playing different nations. I really like how they were able to make it so that particular nations have an edge in certain periods. For example the Spaniards and the Ottomans are stronger in the colonial age while the other nations such as the British and French begin to excel in the fortress and industrial ages. There are more nation specific technologies than in the earlier version and there is no denying certain what I would call basic technologies to certain nations to create variation.
I like buildings that will produce resources continuously such as mills and plantations, and factories, rather than relying on mines that are eventually "dried up." The shipments from the home cities is an interesting feature although "additions" to those cities seems to be little more than "decorating."
My quibbles with the game have nothing to do with game play but more to do with historical accuracy. One of the British special units is the longbowman, also featured in the earlier AoE2. The computer will continue to produce this unit well into the industrial age of the game because it remains cheap and effective. I want to battle against redcoats, not medieval yeomen! Pikemen and halberdiers are other soldiers that will be produced "years" after the socket bayonet made this type of unit worthless in real European warfare.
I wonder at some of their choices of colonizing nations--the Turks never colonized America--but perhaps they were already planning their later versions such as the Asian Dynasties. The Swedes might have been a better choice than the Germans; I don't think much of Frederick the Great commanding armies of swordsmen rather than musketeers (fusiliers). I also think Louis XIV would have been a better representative of France than Napoleon for the colonization of America.
Age of Empires didn't get worse; other games got better May 1, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I think this is a really fun game. It has lots to do and some nice improvements over Age 2. The reason people don't seem to be liking this one so much is that it's nothing revolutionary. Age of Empires 2 was far better than other games in the genre, and AOE 3 isn't, but it's still a great game that's well worth the money.
 Maybe it's me... April 29, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
...but I was a big fan of the first AOE. I play on a Mac, and one disappointing aspect of version 3 for me is that they made it so you have to right click for certain commands and left click for others. Since a Mac really only has one mouse button, in my experience it "misses" commands often if you don't click the one button correctly. Version 1 had a "command + click" control and in my opinion it was a lot easier. Sounds stupid, but when you're in the middle of getting attacked after playing the game for an hour, it really gets frustrating when you can't even give commands properly. Cool game, and great graphics, but they should have built in an option for "Classic Controls" or something. Quit trying to make my Mac a PC!
 Good time killer. February 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is good way to kill an hour if you have one to kill. The games main storylines are decent but it is very to tell who was good and who was bad just on their voices alone. The storyline was also pretty predictable. The gameplay is right on par with the other age of empire games in the sense of he who produces the most the fastest wins. Playing the skirmish mode and developing the home city and your deck gives you reason to keep playing if your one of those completionist types. Aside from that in skirmish mode the computer is pretty predictable and anyone with any RTS background should be able to handle it fine except on hard where I believe the computer is given a handicap I have only beaten a hard computer with a team not one on one. The units are pretty well balanced and there are definately easier country's to play as then others and it comes down to your style of play which is usually a turtle or an attacker. I give this game a four out five because it is fun, it looks great, and it has some interesting concepts associated with it (homecities, deck building, etc) however like most AOE games the gameplay gets to be pretty repetitive if you sit down to often and to long to play it.
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