One of the neat things about AoE III is your home city, which builds up as you get experience in the game. These developments both allow you to change the look of your city (pointless but amusing) and gather upgrades that can be used on your maps. For most of the game, until higher home city levels, you are are limited to 20 upgrades “cards”. However when you have more than choices you can pick and choose 20 depending on what type of map you want to play. The nice feature is that you chose “your deck” once into the map rather than before so you don’t head in blind.
Overall this is an improvement on a good series. It makes for hours of good fun both solo and online. I quite enjoyed this game and expect I will go back every so often. Of course once you are bored with this game you can get the War Chiefs add-on. Look for a review on that soon.
Age of Empires III is a great game for when you don’t want to have the stress of a first-person-shooter. One last thing, I found that playing this game with a trackball makes for quite a bit more fun.
It is good to see that the AoE series is in good hands.
Age of Empires III is rated T (Teen) by the ESRB for Blood, Violence. This game can also be found on: PC.
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