不知道为啥很多人不喜欢帝国3，但是对我来说帝国3可以算超越帝国2的存在。
帝国3相对帝国2的繁琐操作简化了不少。资源调控上由于比帝国2或者神话时代少了种资源，也不像帝国2那样农田会干涸了，操作方便了很多。同时，由于卡片系统的存在，并且可以同时制造多个单位，游戏节奏提高了很多。这个改动见仁见智吧，不过就算节奏再快，也有发展的打法，再慢也照样能rush，所以感觉其实影响不大。感觉帝国3中兵种克制很多，所以文明的选择也比较的多样和有针对性。不像帝国2那样，帝国2玩的少，感觉所有文明都差不多的地球族。
画面上我觉得做的还是很棒的，尤其是海战的时候战舰对轰感觉很带感。音乐也不错。
如果说缺点的话，由于战网系统下的城市等级是没办法修改的，导致联机感觉还是不方便，想要享受完整的游戏体验要么多打战网，要么就只能靠局域网了。

对于中国玩家来说，《帝国时代》应该是一个具有启蒙意义的游戏系列。前两代游戏在每一个有年头的玩家眼里都显得难以挑剔，而作为正统续作的《帝国时代III》在刚发布的那段时间里显然也被寄予了很高的关注度，两届WCG项目，各大游戏媒体的好评和可考的300余万销量都是非常好的体现。

　　然而因为电子竞技的存在，各大RTS游戏之间的优劣之分会在关注度上有着非常直观的体现，在《魔兽争霸III》等至今仍方兴未艾的同类游戏面前，本作显然显得黯淡了不少。实际上和诸前作相比，《帝国时代III》也属于一款给人感觉相当微妙的游戏。游戏的经济、科技和资源采集显得简单了不少，像农田和种植园等无限资源建筑的加入使得游戏有了被无限拖长的可能性，而防御建筑的弱化和士兵训练速度加快实际上却让游戏节奏加快了。

　　而游戏的战斗方式则是实实在在的“菜鸟专杀”，就算是简单难度，一个操作不熟练的玩家也会在战斗中感到很大的困难。譬如在这样的场景之下，你亟需越过对方的步兵线去点杀对方的火炮，而在默认的阵型和编队设置下，你的步兵在受到攻击时会减速，那么你所有的士兵都会为了保持阵型而一起减速。但这些特性在高手眼里却是实实在在的微操作空间，这也是和前作的一大区别。从另一个角度讲，操作性和游戏乐趣之间并不能划上等号。本作在这方面被其它同类游戏（如《魔兽争霸III》和《红色警戒III》）和同题材游戏（如《帝国：全面战争》）完全地比了下去，这是非常遗憾的一点。

　　另外，本作仍然“保留”了2代之前的一些bug。紧贴着建造建筑时，一定要注意农民的位置，否则农民就很容易被夹在两栋建筑之间。如果一支大规模的部队走过地图边缘，有些单位甚至会被卡在地图外面，这种情况在剧情模式尤其容易出现。

　　而在剧情方面，本作可以说是全面退步。不同于前作的玩家可以统领一个帝国，本作的题材变成了殖民地战争，虽然历史从殖民时代起才真正有“帝国主义”之称，但给人的宏大感显然小多了。前作的史实情节也在本作被抛弃，取而代之的是令人匪夷所思的虚构剧情——医院骑士团及其后代和他们的宿敌（？）圣殿骑士团名下邪教组织的斗争，各个大国之间只能在其间甘为陪衬。从前作的史诗大片到本作的传奇故事，我的心理落差还是很大的。直到《亚洲王朝》资料片才能体验到诸如关原之战之类的史实剧情——而年代和其他战役比提早了100年以上，只在2代《征服者》资料片日本战役“京都之战”（本能寺之变和山崎之战）的18年后。另外，从纯粹的可玩性上讲，本作的战役流程明显过于简单了，速推流玩家完全可以掌握住目标要点，10分钟过一关。

　　我唯独喜欢本作的一点是，在解锁了相应的主城卡片之后，你就可以统领世界各国的佣兵，以八国联军之势碾压AI，这倒是蛮痛快的。

　　由此，从性价比角度来讲，我并不推荐入手这款游戏（我是用66%OFF优惠券购买的，仍然觉得太贵）。但如果抱着经典续作的心态，那依然是值得购买的。简单的推荐/不推荐没有办法衡量我对本作的看法，以评分制来说，我会给本作打出5.5/10分。当然，我的看法仍然是很主观的，希望诸君用更加轻松休闲的感觉玩这款游戏，而不要像我这么纠结。

非常经典的一款游戏，前几天换了打了汉化换了中文配音又通了一次剧情感觉非常棒！！

我就想知道汉化哪有啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊

真的很好玩！为什么玩的人比帝国2少呢？

帝国时代3 05年的经典 虽然跟2代比影响力没那么大 但游戏还是很好玩 尤其喜欢主城和商站系统
坑爹的地方还是多人联机平台问题 对于大陆玩家 平台网络要求太高了 结果都基本连不上

如果联机的话还是不错的，这个游戏值得玩。

感觉比二代游戏节奏快了很多，操作也简便了不少，总体好评！

之前入过盒装合集，steam上挂卡牌后喜+1。游戏本身没得说，可这微软自己出的游戏，和微软自己的win7兼容性差是几个意思？

很好玩的一部游戏
帝国时代可以说是从小时候一直玩到现在一个系列
经典的BGM听到差点哭出来
合集有9个章节,第一部最推荐玩,是关于一个家族从中世纪到美国独立战争后的故事
估计是由于年代有点远的原因。。现在联机的人少的不得了。。。
话说日本战役怎么是英语,幸亏贴吧有补丁,要不然听着也太维和了。

If you haven't heard of Age of Empires, then say hello to one of the most iconic RTS franchises. With the release of Age of Empires 2 HD Edition, there's quite a bit to go around for fans of the franchise. But enough about that, how is Age of Empire 3?

Well it really depends on what you're after. Visually, it's still pretty freaking gorgeous, and it holds up quite well, though it does show its age a bit (what do you expect for an 9 year old game). the lighting effects are great, and the smoke and particle effects, especially the destructible debris that falls of buildings is a nice visual treat, and I remember how amazing it looked back in 2005, and to me it still looks great.

In terms of gameplay, it feels more in line with Age of Mythology, Ensemble's previous entry, rather than Age of Empires. From the way you choose a leader each age (mirrors choosing minor deities in Age of Mythology) to general UI layout and control schemes, AoE3 feels much like a spiritual successor to Age of Mythology, with a focus on historics rather than mythos.

Though with this iteration of the series, there are new, much needed improvements. Gone is the need for a drop off point for your workers; like the Atlantean race in AoM:TT (Age of Mythology: The Titans), your workers only need to mine from the resource to generate that resource. This makes macromangement considerably less fiddly.

Another change is how Caravans work in AoE3; instead of building a market, creating some caravans, and sending them to a Town Centre, there are now neutral Trading Posts that need to capture, which provide a steady steam of either Wood, Gold, Food or Experience. There are other neutral buildings the map, such as native settlements, or saloons which give you access to new units.

But by far the biggest addition to the series is the Home City. The Home City has a deck of shipment cards which can be sent to you during the game, depending on how many levels you gain through experience (gained by fighting, find treasure, building or from aforementioned trade caravans). The shipments can range from dozens of cavalry soldiers, supplies of wood/gold/food, to permanent improvements to military, defense, economy and so on. It can change how you play, and it's an interesting additon to the game.

The singleplayer in the Complete Collection offers up plenty of content, with about 8 campaigns, ranging from 15th/16th Century colonials to Battle at Little Bighorn, to the Indian Revolution, and even a little bit in Japan during the Sengoku period. It has plenty of nicely realised characters, interesting stories for each campaign, and enough content for each campaign so they don't feel short. This along with the 14 civilizations you can play in singleplayer (and multiplayer, though there isnt much of a population) skirmishes means plenty of content for your money's worth.

If you're new to the Age of Empires franchise or if you enjoyed Age of Mythology, then Age of Empires 3 will be a fun ride through some events through history. If you preferred Age of Empires 2, then you might not like Age of Empires 3 quite as much. For me though, its a hearty recommendation.

A fine installation in the Age of Empires series that has a greater emphasis on combat as well as teaching you about things other than human resource management and medieval history lessons. Instead, you will gain a deep knowledge of zoology and learn how to beat up people and steal their stuff.

General:
>Zoology Lessons – Some things you will learn: Capybaras and tapirs live in Central and South America, Ibex, Saigas, and Marco Polo sheeps live in central Asia, Serows live in Japan and the rest of Asia.
>Japanese Daimyos can materialize samurai out of thin air.
>Shogun Tokugawa is a wizard that can open portals to other worlds and summon the likes of monks with clubs, shinobi that shoot grenades using their bows, and entire artillery companies.
>The original American Continental Marines were an army of Japanese Ronin Samurai mercenaries.
>If you throw a lot of torches into a building, it will not burn. However, it will break apart and then finally explode.
>Native American fire pit dances generate magic that they put to use in battle, putting Warcraft spellcasters to shame.
>Medicine men, surgeons, and priests all perform the same healing magic.
>Even standing near an idle monster truck could be lethal.
>Even before the creation of the United States, George Washington always knew he’d end up on both the quarter and the dollar bill.
>As an Asian power, you can ally with your enemy through the consulate… and still wage war with their forces with soldiers from their own home country.
>Chinese flamethrowers never burn anything, they just kill it and blow it up.
>The British employed the use of longbowmen well into the 1800s.
>Cuauhtemoc of the Aztecs is a cool guy; he has a blood fetish and refers to himself in third person.
>Queen Isabella so desperate, she’ll sleep with Cuauhtemoc
>Akbar of the Indians is worse than a fervent Jehovah’s Mormon as he constantly attempts to convert you to his religion (Hinduism) while beating him up. On the bright side, he can’t nuke you like Gandhi.
>Russian strelets are a gift from the Aztec blood gods.
>Russian strelets are equipped with large foam axes and airsoft muskets.
>Created an Iroquois home city called Toronto, named the warchief Rob Ford. He smoked crack, befriended blowgunners and blew up his own city.
>As another reviewer simply noted, you can beat up monkeys and steal their money.
>The Haitians hoped that their new ironclad warships would be their knights in shining armor. They turned out to be their morons in aluminum foil.
>The story of the original Thanksgiving is full of lies, propagated by the capitalist pigs in Washington. The true story goes as follows. In 1603, Shogun Tokugawa wanted to construct a new shogunate palace. He sent a group of Japanese pilgrims across the ocean. A few years later, they landed on Plymouth in New England, an excellent place for a new shogunate palace. There, they befriended a native scout and his pet intrepid scout turkey. Shortly thereafter, a group of allied Chinese pilgrims came ashore and set up shop alongside them. The Japanese and Chinese came together for a great turkey dinner. HOWEVER… The French and the Ottomans landed around the same time and did not take kindly to what they saw as encroachment upon their lands. A great war ensued in which the Chinese and Japanese ultimately prevailed. In the end, a great Thanksgiving feast was held in the new shogunate palace with Tokugawa as the host.

>SPECIAL EDIT: Indestructable outposts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZbC69DS_D0

Civilizations:
>You can beat up the British and steal their tea.
>You can beat up the French and steal their military victories.
>You can beat up the Dutch and steal their tulips.
>You can beat up the Portuguese and steal their secret liquor.
>You can beat up the Spanish and steal their dogs.
>You can beat up the Germans and steal their beer.
>You can beat up the Ottoman Turks and steal their turkey.
>You can beat up the Russians and steal their vodka.
>You can beat up the Iroquois and steal Hiawatha’s poetry.
>You can beat up the Sioux and steal Gall’s gallbladder.
>You can beat up the Aztecs and steal their bottled blood.
>You can play as the Japanese and steal your allies’ food.
>You can beat up the Chinese and steal their many inventions and claim them as your own.
>You can beat up the Indians and steal their elephants and then beat up their sacred cows.

Campaigns:
The campaigns of the base game and The Warchiefs expansion provide an interesting story that follows the Blacks, a family of mostly brutal dark magic thieves. They can create entire armies and civilizations that a can appear and disappear within an hour. However, they end up being known and portrayed as heroes as they more often than not beat up bad guys and steal their stuff. The Asian Dynasties have similar stories but are completely unrelated to the Black Family.

Blood – As Morgan Black,
>Beat up the Ottomans and steal their cannons.
>Beat up pirates and steal their maps.
>Beat up the Spanish and steal their money.
>Beat up the Knight’s Templar and steal their water.

Ice – As John Black,
>Mock your uncle Stuart’s lack of masculinity despite the fact that he packs the most powerful right hook punch in the entire New World.
>Beat up the Cherokee and steal their cannons.
>Beat up the rogue British and steal back your damsel-in-distress girlfriend Nonahkee.
>Pursue a rogue British general across North America with a fleet of monster trucks.
>Finally, blow yourself up and prevent the Knight’s Templar from leading a Russian invasion of America.

Fire – As Nathaniel Black,
>Beat up the British and steal their colonies.
>Beat up the Hessians and steal back your damsel-in-distress mother Nonahkee.
>Win the Revolutionary War with giant stone busts of George Washington that crush and trample entire armies.
>Level the British forts at Yorktown with these colonial titans while they proclaim, “Check in your wallet. That’s me on the dollar bill.”

Steel – As Amelia Black,
>Beat up rival companies and steal their railroads.
>Beat up the Sioux and steal their land.
>Beat up the Knight’s Templar and steal their money.

Shadow – As Chayton Black,
>Beat up the Sioux again and steal their land.
>Beat up a Civil War veteran and steal his money.
>Beat up General George Armstrong Custer and steal his mullet.

(Asian Dynasties)
Japan – As General Kinchiro (Batman),
>Beat up Japanese daimyos and steal their land.
>Note: The Japanese can run mid-19th century steam trains in the early-17th century.

China – As Captain Huang,
>Beat up pirates, Indians, and Aztecs with your shirtless partner Lao Chen, and then completely cover up your presence.

India – As a sepoy named Nabir,
>Beat up your own countrymen and steal everything they have.
>Shoot your commanding officer’s bodyguard and just walk away.
>Beat up the British and steal their saltpeter.
>Beat up the British and steal back your elephants.

11/10. If you don’t have the money to buy this game, beat up someone and steal their money.

A benchmark RTS development which still exceeds most games in it's genre.
Almost 10 years since I began playing this game & even longer for earlier franchise releases.

i think aoe 3 should have a workshop to create more stuff

My opinion on every AOE is almost the same. I absolutely love these types of games. I enjoy building and training a growing army then completely smashing everyone else (unless they are better than me huhuhuhu) but honestly AOE III is a bit graphic outdated now but it’s still an amazing game for it being released in 2005.

Recommendation: Absolutely. I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys strategy games and won't mind a bit less graphics then the newer games.

I own two coppies of AOE3, that's just how great of a game it is.
Between my retail copy and my steam copy I'd have nearly 1000 hours played.
Positives: "Card Deck Tech Tree" Allows you to select up to 35 technologies that are unlocked based on your XP in the match. The abillity to name your Explorer and Homecity. City leveling and user leveling adds noticeable multiplayer progression. Tradepost [specified spots on the map allow you to build a tradepost for extra resources, units and technologies offering a bit of a King Of The HIll feel].
Negatives: No diplomacy [unless a custom scenario], only 3 team options [FFA, 1 or 2], no capturing enemy units/technologies [in previous games you could use your priest/monk to convert enemies to your team].

Well, a third part for Age of Empires. What to expect of it?

If you have never played the first two parts of AoE, here you'll get a little summary: Age of Empires I and II were defining new standards for the RTS-genre when they came out. Not as fast-paced as Starcraft or WarCraft, but with more strategical Depth and more focus on the organization of your camp and with a build-in history-part wich made the game even a little educational without decreasing the fun of the gameplay. You always could choose from many different cultures which had some units and technology in common, but some unique units and cultural advantages and disadvantages.

Now, what is different in AoE III?
First of all, after AoE I playing in antique times and AoE II playing in Medieval times up to the discovery of the new world, AoE III consequently plays in times of the colonization of America and the civil war. Like AoE I & II, AoE III contains many true historical events, locations and persons, but unlike both prequels, the main storyline of the campaigns is highly fictional so that it might be difficult to tell which events in the game truely happend and which are made up. The main storyline of the campaign is about a sect which tries to find and conquer the fountain of youth in the new world and a family which is bound by fate to stop them. On their journeys they encounter many historical persons like Georg Washington or Bolivar, but most of the game is about hunting down the sect. So the game is far less educational then the previous ones.

The second big difference is that the cultures do not longer have most techs and units in common but every nation has their own tech tree. Some things of course still are open to every culture but the differences between the cultures are far bigger then before. This isn't much of a problem because you can still tell the strengths and weaknesses of an unfimilar unit very fast, but it is more difficult then before to play a new nation.

And the there are the RPG-elements. Not only do you have imortal hero-units (like in Age of Mythology) which can only be knocked unconscious and stand up again if no more enemy units are around, you will also play random maps with a "hometown" which can level up between games and send you support if you collect enough experience by surviving a certain time, killing enemy units or building your camp. Although this may increase the motivation to play more random maps they removed the option to play a random culture, which I really loved in AoE I & II.

The AIs are weaker then in AoE II which is good for beginners but a little disappointing for more expert players. The balancing is also worse. There are some strategies to break the game. A pack of at least 20 osman heavy bombards, for example, is almost invincible. No AI-player ever was able to beat me if I got that far.

With the complete Collection, you will also get the two Add-Ons: The War Chiefs and Asian Dynasties.

The War Chiefs adds playable Native American Tribes (Without this Add-On they are only available as some sort of mercenaries if you build trading posts near their villages witch appear randomly on random maps). Although playing a native american culture is a very wellcome change and a challenge, it is clearly unbalanced. Those cultures are given many new and unique techniques like sending settlers to a totem and dance to do rites which give you advantages like faster ressources or stronger soldiers, they still desperatly lack heavy siege weaponary. Native american soldiers are only strong in large nummers and will have to attack early to not get overwhelmed by superior firepower of other nations.
The Add-On also adds two campaigns which complete the storyline of the original game campaign by filling gaps and finishing the somehow open story. The focus, of course, is more on the war of the native americans against the europeans and so it is no true surprise that you will have to face general Custer at wounded Knee. Still the two new campaigns are much more shallow...

The Asian Dynasties finally adds some civilizations from Asia like the Indians and the Chinese. The storyline of the new campaigns has nothing to do with the story of the original campaign. The Indian campaign for example takes place around the fight for independence in India and the chinese campaign describes the discovery of the american continent by a chinese admiral which might have taken place (or maybe not) long before Columbus was born.

Overall AoE III: Complete Collection is a decent RTS game with some unique features, but if you were a big fan of AoE I & II you might be disappointed because it is a really different game then what you are used to. Still it is worth a try.
If you have never played AoE I or II, but you like RTS games, you should definitly try this one.

Super great game, I was so addicted that my wife left me, I played it on work so I lost my job. Now I have no income, my friends won't talk to me, and my wife moved to canada so I didn't have a bad influence on the children, my parents hate me every christmas I am all alone, All I have is Age of Empires during the holidays, but that's enough and I think it was worth it. I sometimes play for 36 hours straight, the next days I only lie in my bed, I haven't been outside for 2 years now, I order all my food, I now live on foodstamps. But it is a great game, so it was all worth it.

Beautiful game! If you are one of those guys that hate easy strategy games, and want something that relies more on your capacity of situation analysis, like war strategies, economic strategies, and psychological pressure, this game is perfect for you. You have different kinds of troops, like light infantry, heavy infantry, cavalry, artillery, and your settlers. And each one counters the other. So it's all about team work and planned strategies. You can either create a strong economy, or make a fast attack. Of course it's not as simple as that. That's why this game is so awesome! Each game is full of posibilities.

All the feels are comming back when i played this game 8 years ago . I loved it so much i have two copies cd and steam, you can not go wrong if you puchase this game

10/10