Age of Empires III

The game is good but with online problems

User Rating: 7.7 | Age of Empires III PC

By R_Guardian2000 | Review Date: November 20, 2005

I am personally a HUGE age of empires fan, I played AOE and AOE II and fell in love with the series, particularly AOE II. AOE III adds a very unique perspective that is amazingly refreshing. The Home City System is a great way to encourage replay value, since you can only get cards when you level the home city up. With my favorite civ, the French, I have gotten to level 26 and have several unique and powerful cards.

Okay now here's the downside, the online play is very buggy, since it goes through ESO Online. I never like ESO Online, very hard to access, when I play AOE II it goes through the Microsoft Zone, the Zone worked well without any huge problems, I could even play online over dial-up! But on ESO it just doesn't work.

So to summarize
Offline: Excellent, creative home city system sparks a great new way to play RTS, the series is a masterpiece
Online: Buggy, Unplayable at times

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