Age Of Empires III | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 973
Format: Cd
Platform: Macintosh
Genre: Strategy Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 100722
Model: 10324
UPC: 828068103248
EAN: 0828068103248
ASIN: B000HZRLIM
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Explore uncharted territories to stake your claim in the New World | | • | Command powerful rifled infantry and a naval fleet | | • | Gain valuable experience to level-up your Home City and strengthen your economy, technology, and military | | • | Lead one of 8 civilizations - Spanish, French, British, Dutch, Russian, German, Portuguese, and Ottoman | | • | Fully 3D graphics, destructible environments and dynamic physics |
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Product Description
You've landed on the New World. Ready to stake your claim? So is everybody else. So have some before you. Many will follow after you. How do you attain satisfaction, wealth, and power? Then manage to keep it? It takes lots of strategic thinking. If you think other are standing idylly by, you're wrong. It's going to be rough and nasty. Crush your enemies with devastating cannons, rifled, infantry, and your naval fleet. Build a thriving empire with a booming economy. Form strategic alliances with Native Americans. UNIVERSAL BINARY - Works with both Intel and PowerPC Macs GameSpy Top 5 Game of the Year 2005 award System Requirements (tentative) - Macintosh computer with a G4/G5 or Intel processor running at 1.4GHz or faster, Mac OS X v10.3.9 or higher, 512MB RAM, 64 MB Video Card (with support for hardware T & L). 56K dial-up Internet access or LAN for online play
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Toooooo Short December 22, 2008
Shane Lynch
I like the game, but am very disapointed in it's length. I just started to get used to the controls and it's over. I only got it a couple of weeks ago and play it about 2 - 2.5 hours a day. I already finished it.
 Good Sequel; Better With Expansions November 30, 2008
anne (san francisco)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first received this game about 2 years ago as a birthday present. From then on it has evolved to become my standard of a good RTS. The graphical, and game play improvement over AO2 is amazing. The home city is a vast improvement over AO2, and forces you to specialize in one civilization in order to unlock all of their advantages. My brothers also enjoy this game, so when they play me over our LAN network it keeps both of us on our toes and always guessing, much like real combat. The game does pull some controls out of other games, such as being able to zoom in yet it is actually a bit of a hassle since it gives you no advantage, and the movement often become blurry when you do this. One feature that the game is missing from AOM is the ability to pan the camera. You are still stuck facing the game from one angle. This makes it very difficult to view units behind buildings.
I run the game on my iMac (1.83 ghz, 512mb RAM) and I can still run the game under the medium graphics with no apparent lag. While playing on my macbook (2.4 ghz, 2gb RAM) I run the game on the highest settings, and the graphical improvement is amazing. The water ripples with every movement of my ships, and the smoke from my rows of dragoons slowly ripples towards the sky and then dissipates. Even in maps where there is fog there is no lag, unlike COD2 where you throw a smoke grenade in a big map and you will receive lag.
I often play as the British on expert, and sometimes the game is actually rather easy for me; I often win matches of 1v7. The AI is very predicable lacking the options that were in AOM such as big boomer, and early rusher. A simple strategy is to just create a big army, wait for them to attack, then demolish there city before they can regroup. In your capital one has the option to block all shipments from the enemies home cities. This in multi-player games is one of my least liked features. (I believe that this is solved though in the later expansions.) All one has to do is activate this "power" and the opponent cannot receive any shipments. This is extremely unfair because on the death match setting players can use this ability instantaneously.
The game does have some minor bugs, and glitches which are solved in the expansions, such as asking for resources from your allies over time, but all in all it is a very solid game. Using cheats is never fair for your opponents, yet you can spawn a monster truck, or create an invincible "George Crushington". The editor is still notoriously hard to use in setting up the AI's abilities, and the map is actually circular in this game. This is a weird thing to do since walls cannot directly match up to the borders.
I love this game and I know I will be playing it for a couple more years. I have both of the expansion packs and they add a new level to the game play. This game is NOT a waste of money, and will definetely keep an Age of Empires fan satisfied.
The Perfect Time Waster October 4, 2008
Daniel Pemp (Bonners Ferry, ID)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Age of Empires 3 is an awesome game with it's high-resolution graphics, new game-play, and deep story-line, but it IS NOT just a game. This is where spare time is meant to go. Microsoft has had some great ideas in the past, but the AoE series are honestly some of the best games I have ever played. This game will have you playing non-stop and I personally guarantee you will love every minute of it!
A&E III September 19, 2008
Sandra A. Bailey
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
anyone how liked A&E II will love this game It works grate on the MAC with the improved graphics are grate!
 Terrible, worse than the last edition! August 4, 2008
Alexis1
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game is not an improvement over the previous edition. I would not recommend buying this.
Reasons why it sucks:
-The graphics aren't that great.
-You can only see a small area of the playing field at once.
-You have to build up civilizations over time, you can't take full advantage of their attributes immediately.
-I hate the card system, it's lame.
-You can't double-click to select all the units of one type in an area.
-No real improvements over the last game, just different. As in crappier.
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