Age of Empires, RIP.

User Rating: 5.3 | Age of Empires III PC
By coreyb42 | Review Date:
Ahhh, Age of Empires. One of the original and most beloved RTS series to date. Past AoE's have attracted gamers of all shapes and sizes, with an epic feel that, at the time, was unmatched.

Now Microshaft has gone and mussed that up. No longer does it feel as if you're controlling an empire, but merely a single colony led by some cartoonish swashbuckler that belongs more in Pirates than anywhere else. This game seems almost like it's trying to ride the wave of Pirate fame, and seems to focus in on a single character, rather than a whole empire.

Gone is the rock, paper, scissors formula of the olden days. Now, the units are kind of muddled together, some with questionable usefulness (what exactly are those swordsman-scouts used for?). This game really isn't very hard, it's just a lot of work. There are three basic steps:

1) Churn out a bunch of units
2) Attack enemy
3) Churn out more units, repeat

This game makes absolutely no attempt to rewrite the RTS formula. It actually manages to dumb down the genre, rather than innovate. Never have I seen more rave fanboy reviews for a game so deserving of the bargain bin. Gamers would be much better served getting another RTS, such as EE2 or RoN. AoE, RIP.

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