Action real-time strategy video games such as Age of Empires, World of Warcraft, and Total War are played by millions. Research has shown that experience of playing video games can improve cognitive development such as greater sensitivity to contrasts, better eye-to-hand coordination and superior memory. And on top of this, there are some strategies more focused on defending, that allow you to make games go much longer, and be more buildy like you said.As for actual combat in aoe3, I like it more than aoe2 because it is more about positioning and strategy, whereas aoe2 games almost always feel like grinding two armies against each other endlessly, with little regard for organized positioning and only having to worry about not clumping too much in the face of onagers. But since you can chose what maps you play on. In more closed maps, like black forest, you don't get rushed at all. More open maps like arabia are harder to defend so people tend to rush. This was the only one i didn't buy, only tried the demo (many times to make sure i wasn't mistaken in not liking it :/) For me it ruined a lot of the fun i had playing the series. Decks, and all those funny businesses going on in the maps, don't belong in this game in my opinion. But this is about the only negative of this game.īest: units (does anyone remember the phalanx and the chariots? really awesome units!), sounds (this was where monks did use "wololo" when converting units, and god was it fun!), civilizations (those civilizations have a very big appeal for me personally) I hated the part where i had to use 6 simultneous sheep + scout to scout the map.
Worst: a bit slow to get going, if you like very competitive play.
Playing with your friends you can do so much crazy things. Personaly, having played all of AoE's my preferences would be:īest: General gameplay. "Age of Empires III has sold over 2 million copies as of May 2008" It took AoE3 3 years to reach that number In 3 months after its release, 2 million copies of AoE2 (Age of Kings) had been shipped. Concerning popularity, AoE2 was far more popular than AoE3.