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Not ready for prime time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 26
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have a 4 GHz machine with 2 Mb of RAM and GeForce4 graphics card. I have no difficulty running lots of games at high resolution. But this game runs so slowly that it is unplayable -- even at the default screen resolution (1024x800).

That resolution is another problem. I have a 21" plasma monitor so anything less than 1600x1200 resolution is blurry. When I tried to use 1600x1200 it was so slow that I thought it had crashed.

In addition the screen scrolling is almost impossible to use because it is so jerky and delayed.

Major problem of this game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was a fan of AOE I and II (age of empire) and I had 12 years RTS game play experience.

This game has a pack of 'new technologies' under its belt. The Havoc physical engine, real time shade and light tracing, blah,blah.

Well, on my P42.8 HT + ATI 9250 with 128M video card, the game looks not impressive at all. I read the reviews of the performance on some high end card, so in order to get the 'supprising' experience I have to put down $700 to get the card that can only get 45 frame/second with everything turned on.

The game play is mediocre.
1. Not all of you farmer can build town centers(TC). In AOE2, that is a common ugly problem for the players to keep building TC as their "aircraft carrier" to defence and invasion.
now in this game, you can not even build buildings close to enemies' TC. so you can not play 'tower rush' I guess.

2. The home-town card system and trading system are not impressive at all. Personaly I don't like them

3. Voice acting is still pool

4. STILL no limit on the farms working on one resource.
In starcraft and all other good RTS games, you can only assign a limited number of farmers to one resouce location( a mine or something), but in AOE3, you can send 100 workers to one mill
(one farmer can not work on one farm in AOE2, they ruined it in new version).

In the old AOE2 time, because of the resource/farmer issue, they have to release a patch because most people will keep doing farming with no or less than 5 soilders and more than 100 farmers in the beginning of the game.

Although this game potentially have a great achievement in its graphic (under the condition of an expensive video card), the lacking of solid game play still makes it a mediocre, if not poor.

Boring after an hour.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of all, if you run into that PAUSED GAME problem, just hit the pause/break key on your keyboard.
Game loos good, no problems on my system but it's just the same thing over and over and the maps are just way to small with no way to change this.

Does not work with Windows 2000 - but should

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 35
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well it looks like those nice folks from microshaft want you to upgrade from a perfectly fine operating system to XP just to install this P.O.S.........this is bang out of order. Dont let this be the start of something very sinister......(forced upgrades when THEY decide) ByeBye AOE3 nice try.

Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This has, for me, been one of the most addictive PC games I've played. I did enjoy the included "Fountain of Youth" campaign mainly for it's length and depth. You travel most of the Americas before you're done. But, the best feature is the single player skirmishes that take on the look and feel of a miniature campaign complete with AI team members and enemies alike who banter and dis' each other. This game is good for many hours of replay. I highly recommend it.

Good Overall, but some flaws.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Age of ____ Game fans always will enjoy the new installments into the series, but I was slightly disappointed with some areas in this instalment. The games lack of historical "feel" kept me away from the campaign, and the cinematics were spoiled by a bad storyline and ugly circles around speakers. There was not enough thrill in the cinematics. The editor was a nice feature that had enhanced and added triggers from Age of Mythology, but bugs held the editor back from it's full potent.
Where there were most flaws was in Random Map Skrimishs. Civilization levels was a good thing and a bad thing, for you normally focus on one civ. until you master it, and it's hard to balance two civs at one time. You start a RM out with a explorer( A powerful unit that never dies and has a large Line of Sight(LOS)) Settlers(Main economic units) Gather reasorces fast and build fast, but cost 2ce as much as they did in Aom. They require no drop sites, which was a important stratagetic aspect in the other games. Markets are buildable in Age 1 and are cheap and cost very low reasorces, but provides lots of economic improvements and can buy reasources. Houses in the game cost as much wood to construct as a Market, and Manor Houses cost even more. It's unbalanced, and a lot of the time the conclusion is you just spam settlers to gather what you need. Sometimes there are weird things like upgraded your walls from a church rather from the wall itself. AOE3 is a great game and can give you hours of good gameplay, but lacks somethings.

If You Like To Fight...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

AOE3 is a basically fighting. The economy is simpler than Age Of Mythology. But the battles are exciting. The cannons are able to knock enemies flying, break holes in buildings, and knock down trees. Some units, such as pikemen and crossbowmen, look a bit out of place. New for AOE3 are experince points: points you get from killing enemies, finding treasure, and setting up trade. But my favorite new feature is the Home City, a place that gives you forts, factories,etc. The economy has been dumbed down, but the battles ALMOST make up for it.

One of the Worst RTS games yet

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 38
Date: October 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you like the RTS genre, stay away from this game. Sure the graphics are great, but lets face it, the gameplay stinks. The campains are all "historical fiction" that are based around fictional characters. While the campains are ok, I wanted more actual historical campains. Development of your colony is boring, and the battles are small scale. Over all, just not that good. Home cities are nice, but not good enough to get you to like this game. SAVE YOUR MONEY!!

AOE letdown,Anyone who has played AOE 1 or2 wont like this

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 25
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I play AoE2 all the time and i bought it when it first came out 6 years ago! AOE 3 suxs,this will never live to up the the first game nor should it be named Age of Empires,this a bad! BUY AOE 2 GOLD!! NOT THIS POSER GAME!

Woooo...hold up a second, this game is not cool...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 21
Date: August 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game when it came out. The graphics are somewhat amazing but not that much difference from other games. I stopped playing the game because after creating a stratigic plan with every civilization it got destroyed twice.

You ask how, well, I'll tell you...(eso) ensemble studios online, the company who created aoe III, decided to come up with a new patch(a patch is a downloadable program to fix bugs and other problems with the game) which destroyed all my work.

I had created two strategic plans for every civilization but the PATCH alter the civilizations and the maps, and it eventually destroyed my happiness for the game and all my work. I decided to wait until january 2007 to see if the game has been fix yet.

Fron time to time I have checked back to the official website of the game to see the dicussion forums to see if the game has change for the better but it hasn't. There some what of a dictatorship in that company now because PATCH 8 is worse and to top it off..they now require you to or/otherwise force you to play the game because your good rating is going down every week for not playing.

Talk, about commanding and desperate ways to keep poeple playing.

Also, the company said that over 1,000,000 games were sold. But don't think that when you play in multiplayer that you are going to be playing with over 1,000,000 players. If you are lucky you might have the chance to play with 3,000 players online during certain times of the day. But the average is 1,500 for most of the day. Good luck. lol

I remember when Mech Warrior 4 Vengeance came out it had over 8,000 players online in the zone. But for this game's released date in October 2005 it barely reach the 5,000 mark, After two months it dropped to 3,000 players and now 1,500 players.

Well, i hope this info was helpful, bye and good luck.

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