VideoGames : Age Of Empires III
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from: Destineer
Amazon.com's Price: $49.99 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Destineer
EAN: 0828068103248
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Format: CD
Label: Destineer
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Destineer
Model: 10324
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: Destineer
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Sales Rank: 700
Studio: Destineer
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Terrible, worse than the last edition!
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent But Archers on the Plains of Abraham?
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Age of Empires didn't get worse; other games got better
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.
Rating:  - Maybe it's me...
...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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Good time killer.
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 ... Read More
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