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Age Of Empires III (Mac) | 
| From: Macsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1896
Platform: Macintosh
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 100722
Model: 10324
UPC: 828068103248
EAN: 0828068103248
ASIN: B000HZRLIM
Release Date: September 29, 2006
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Good game but could do with more depth October 27, 2008
I've owned this a while and have all the expansion packs. Its a fun experience and is very addictive. But there a few areas that could have done with some serious work:
Combat is very shallow, the best tactic to win is to simply build a large army as quickly as possible, and rush your opponent. Thats it! Ensemble could've done a lot worse than taken a look at Cossacks (unfortunately not available on Mac) which is a fantastic example of a strategy game set in this era. At least Cossacks allowed for different formations for your troops to take - and if you knew what you were doing - it was quite possible to overcome sheer numbers with the right tactics.
AI has some issues - on maps with islands, or a dividing river, you'll have a couple of attacks early on, but soon the computer controlled players will build an army and then just stay on their island not doing anything. This hasn't been ironed out in any of the expansions either which is just annoying!
I do miss the single player experience of AoE II where the campaigns were loosely based on historical figures (Joan of Arc, Saladin, etc) whereas in this game most (if not all) the campaigns are purely fictional.
Having said all that, the graphics engine is great, with some excellent effects like buildings falling apart under cannon shot (like you'd expect!), and it does tend to take a lot of my free time! I'd love to see AoE II remade with this engine.
 Really, really good August 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me clear things up here - Age of Empires III is a slightly simplified game when compared to it's predecessor, the Age of Kings, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game. It is by far one of my favourite games... the civilizations are balanced and the online is great (and active). It manages to be easy to learn, but hard to master. I have been playing for about 6 months now and have only recently worked out how to properly use the British to their full advantage. Great stuff.
Pros
Beautiful graphics
Balanced gameplay
Epic musical score
Challenging online
Cons
Online can cut out and disconnect at times
Doesn't use Ensemble Studios Online as in the PC version
Not Bad but Not Great March 18, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well, I must say I was a bit dissapointed with this game.
The graphics have been improved but nothing worth talking about.
The overall game play has also improved but come on, is that the best you can do?
Story line is better than the earlier versions but however is not very moving or creative enough.
If you compair story lines of Warcraft, Starcraft, Command Conquer, this game's story line totally sucks.
I do like the cannons, additional buildings, and cards you can use from your homeland, but the fact you can Modify your home city's image just makes me laugh as to why you would add something so pathetic to a game for.
Completely pointless.
(The more I think about it, I should have spent a bit more and just bought C&C 3)
Out of all the stategy games I play, it is not the worst, but I would rank it in the mid-lower range so I think 3 stars is more than fair enough.
Fast delivery.
 Age of letdown March 9, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I thought this game look good, played it a few years ago on PC and liked it so went ahead on got it for my mac. firstly, yes the graphics are very impressive, the water is beautiful. but everything else is bad. ships look like there big toys, very basic game play ( basically you build barracks and then 100 of the same type of solider and send them in, thats it ) its about as deep as a puddle. the battles are poor as well, you think that when you send in all your troops and they send in all of theirs you are in for one uber battle.....wrong, the battles are very messy so you cant see a thing and controlling your troops when they are fighting is impossible. The good thing about the battles is you get to see 'tracer shots' from cannons and guns, thses look good but add nothing to the game.
The 'Home City' part of the game is useless to, its just a part of the main mene that you can customize. In the City thought you can pick out what reinforcements you get in the game, such as more troops or recourses. But again...thats it, very basic. In fact thats how i would describe the whole game, very basic.
ULTIMATE August 23, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Age of Empires III rocks, train an army of bowman,pikeman,falconets and more.You have a fair variety of empiers and locations, send villagers to chop wood,find meat and mine, you have COMPLETE COTROL. you also drive boats and attack, graphics are top and I recomend to anyone who is BORN TO RULE!!!
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