With Age of Empires III Definitive Edition, you get the base game and both of its expansions, The War Chiefs and The Asian Dynasties. It was a pretty massive shakeup to the traditional way Age of Empires had historically played, and the influences from Ensemble Studio’s supernatural spin-off, Age of Mythology, were clearly evident. If you like to rush, for example, you could select cards that ship extra soldiers during the early stages of the game, and allow you to overwhelm an opponent before they consolidate a position. The Home City was invulnerable, and also persistent across all games, featuring an element of deck-building to allow players to compliment the way the like to play. Where it differed from the norm most was with the introduction of the Home City mechanic, which was a representation of the capital city of the faction you were currently playing as.īy recruiting units, killing enemies, and constructing buildings, you would earn XP that could in turn be used to ship powerful units or resources directly to your colony, or unlock powerful buffs and bonuses. The goal was to improve the technological level of your society, which in turn allows you to unlock more advanced military units, and ultimately defeat any enemy factions present on the map.
Like both previous games before it, gameplay is focused on managing your fledgling community, directing settlers to secure the necessary resources to expand. Set during the Age of Exploration, players would assume the role of a colony of one of the major powers of the time, European for the most part, but later DLC expansions introduced playable Native American and Southeast Asian factions as well. It sold well and generally garnered favorable reviews, but it was a deviation from what players had known before, and its nuances took a little more getting used to.
When it originally released back in 2005 (developed then by Ensemble Studios), Age of Empires III was sort of the black sheep of the family. With Age of Empires III Definitive Edition, developer Tantalus Media has brought the last entry in the genre-defining series of real-time strategy games to modern audiences, warts and all.
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