Wow, Age of Empires two is/was much better
User Rating: 7.7 | Age of Empires III PC
Upon firing up a Game I had waited for for a few years now, the game just doesn't feel the same, and that's not to say it's good. Age of Empires 3 is just not the same. It features mostly recycled gameplay from Aoe2, except for a few new changes like the homecity system, which i just don't really find it compelling and it doesn't really want to make me play multiplayer. Aside from the home city, the game i have featured quite a bit of issues. i know my computer is 5 years old, but can't a 2.2 ghz intel with a 128 Mb Geforce cut it? at First the game looks great, but any size battle will just kill the frame rate, and some instances the game will just crash. After i lowered the settings to almost the lowest, there is still an fairly bad frame rate which just ruined the experience for me. The campaign is less than compelling, and this fictional story about a fountain of life just seems stupid. sure, some historical battles might not have been exciting, but couldn't Ensemble Studios have kept it like it has been for the past previous two games? going the oldschool route just sounds better too me. The campaign is also short, and you will not really want to play it again. Aside from that the multiplayer and random map seems to be crappier than ever. i don't remember a king of the hill or a regicide mode where you kill a unit to win, so it won't be very enticing to play for long at all. Age of Empires 3, to sum it up, has been a disapointment to a devout fan who has bought every game in the series except for the expansion pack, and judging how this game has felt like, i won't buy it for sure. 
