Experience one of the most beloved real-time strategy franchises with the Age of Empires: Definitive Collection. This collection packs a year legacy of historical adventure in definitive form with remastered 4K Ultra HD graphics, enhanced audio, all previously released expansions and featuring brand-new content in all three remastered versions of the games: Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition This unforgettable collection features hundreds of hours of real-time strategy fun and is an unrivaled compilation that will stand the test of time.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is the new, lovingly remastered version of the legendary real-time strategy game straight from the pages of history! The Rise of Rome adds four new civilizations and units as well as new campaigns, now fully voice-acted in English. Immerse yourself in the award-winning strategy experience!
Command mighty European powers looking to explore new lands in the New World; or jump eastward to Asia and determine the outcome of its struggles for power.
Continue the saga of the Black family in an all-new campaign as they witness the birth of a new nation. Three new civilizations join the fight, each with its own campaign!
Age of Mythology is back! Choose your god and take to the battlefield in this classic RTS, upgraded with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features. Call upon the gods for assistance in flattening enemy towns with meteors or scatter opposing troops with lightning storms!
A new culture—the Atlanteans—joins the clash of truly epic proportions! Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon introduces gods and units from Chinese lore in this expansion to the epic game of mythological armies! Age of Empires II is the sequel to the award-winning, best-selling real-time strategy game Age of Empires. Explore new maps, multiplayer scenarios, spectator mode, user-created content from the Steam Workshop and more in the HD Edition re-release and its three expansions!
Insiders unlock access to exclusive news, updates, and opportunities to provide feedback about future releases. Here are some of the perks:. Please read and follow the Code of Conduct. Don't have a Microsoft or Xbox Live account? Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Edition has been polished up considerably graphically. There is also a lot of content available. Unfortunately, the original design flaws have not or hardly been addressed. This is a game that generally wants to do too much, makes it too complex and doesn't give enough in return.
This is a nice remaster of a game that we would rather not play. User Reviews. Write a Review. Positive: 16 out of Mixed: 8 out of Negative: 18 out of The game is really good , I love this game and the development team Ensemble Studios. Personally I loved that they respected the amazing new game, practically everything improved, 2 new civilizations and 8 new revolutions.
Personally I loved that they respected the factions historically, in terms of uniforms and names, highly recommended … Expand.
A good upgrade for the most part, the changes to Native Americans is fine, if a little under implemented. It plays well so long as it doesn't A good upgrade for the most part, the changes to Native Americans is fine, if a little under implemented. It plays well so long as it doesn't crash, which it does. On very good hardware, on average hardware, and on bad hardware. Doesn't matter, I've had maybe 4 crashes out of 12 or so multiplayer games played. It is buggy and crashes frequently. If you crash in a multiplayer game, you're out.
You can't reconnect, if you time out of the game because you crash, you just resign. It's lame. Until then, you're lucky if you can get it to work properly on windows Units gets stuck behind trade posts, unable to move.
I've had zero crashed in the original AoE3, but crashes aplenty in definitive. Nothing about that core gameplay has truly changed in the Definitive Edition: the unit movements and pathfinding feel just as jerky and physics-defying as I remember them, for better and for worse. Boats especially still slip, spin, and slide around like soap in a bathtub rather than huge sailing ships.
There are a bare handful of minor gameplay changes in AoE3: DE, and a ton of balance changes, but nothing too radical. The AI is notably improved, but it's still prone to doing stuff like marching unarmed villagers right into your army or base. At its highest levels, however, I was surprised at the challenge. The original had nothing like it. Single-player story missions are generally all fun but forgettable in classic RTS fashion. The main story is as goofy as ever, a bland pseudo-historical thriller involving the Holy Grail, the Fountain of Youth, a magical bloodline, some stuff that was probably blatantly stolen from The Da Vinci Code, and more historical errors and outright historical fiction than you can shake an arquebus at.
There are also some absurd moments of pointedly ignoring the real-world horrors that happened during colonization and contact between cultures, and students of history today aren't going to react very well to that. Major changes have been made to the Native American-themed WarChiefs expansion campaign, and the story has a bit more pathos than it used to as a result.
The Asian Dynasties expansion campaigns try harder, and the Indian campaign is interesting, but the Chinese campaign in particular is pure fantasy. The campaigns are a fun enough way to spend some time, 30 to 40 hours depending on difficulty setting, but still aren't exactly compelling. It's doubly frustrating because there was potential for a great historical campaign here.
That's a decision long past criticism, but the remaster does address some of the worst historical mistakes. On first start, a message from the developers talks about fixes that center around the Lakota and Haudenosaunee civilizations, and to a lesser extent the Aztecs, correcting names, adding their real language and more authentic artwork, as well as removing historical inaccuracies such as mining by the two North American nations.
The Asian civilizations are still led by "Monk" heros who have confusingly out of place mystical powers. The new Incan faction speaks a language that sounds a lot like proper Quechua, but the Aztecs speak the same gibberish they spoke 14 years ago—it certainly doesn't sound like Nahuatl.
The saving grace in this are the new Historical Battles, which cram some of the best gameplay ideas of the last 15 years into the Age of Empires 3 mold. They're based on proper historical events, and include some truly choice, weird, deep cuts from the battles of the early modern era. For the lone Age of Empires 3 fanatic that gasped and cheered at the mention of Africa: I see you. No, there's not more than that. I'm sorry—but someone is sure to take the unit models and use them for a mod.
It's inevitable that this Definitive Edition won't age as well as the others in the series. All of that said, it's inevitable that this Definitive Edition won't age as well as the others in the series. Sprites tend to look good forever, but the character models in Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition barely reach a par with Company of Heroes 2 , released some seven years ago now. Some, I swear, are worse: The model for the panda bear is truly awful. It's like a painted balloon.
The destruction physics and environmental effects are improved, no doubt, and cannonballs still send soldiers flying. It just can't compete with a scratch-built modern engine—like this year's Iron Harvest. The old interface is nigh-unplayable compared to a modern RTS, but the new one both works and comes in three versions. The UI overhaul probably does the most to bring Age of Empires 3 up to modern standards, floating on top of things rather than obscuring half the action.
It's nothing fancy, but it works… and it includes some egregiously awful color choices. Brilliant pure yellow and white text on a faux-wood brown background is the biggest and most consistent offender. It's eye strain-inducing. However, accessibility features are here to save the day: You can simply remap all identifying player and text colors to any other color.
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