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"帝国时代III" -- Simplified Chinese spelling

"世紀帝國3" -- Traditional Chinese spelling

"Rocket" -- Internal development title

"AoE III" -- Abbreviated title

"AoE3" -- Common abbreviation

"Age of Empires 3" -- Informal name

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Gamigo Windows Nov 08, 2005 8.8 out of 10 88 Game Watcher Windows Oct 19, 2005 8.7 out of 10 87 Game Informer Magazine Windows Dec, 2005 8.25 out of 10 82 4Players.de Windows Oct 31, 2005 82 out of 100 82 GamesRadar Windows 2005 8 out of 10 80 GamePro (US) Windows Oct 17, 2005 4 out of 5 80 Armchair Empire, The Windows Nov 25, 2005 8 out of 10 80 ActionTrip Windows Oct 17, 2005 79 out of 100 79 Game Shark Windows Nov 15, 2005 B 75 1UP Windows Oct 17, 2005 6 out of 10 60

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Age of Empires III is the third installment in the series of real-time strategy games. The main idea of the gameplay remains unchanged: with the limited amount of resources and a handful of settlers, you must think about the expansion of your colony. Besides the strong economic thread, you should also think about the development of your army. Like in the previous games your people start in an early part of humanity's history and progress to new ages (up to the industrial age) with better weapons and other possibilities.The game offers you a complex single-player campaign that is divided into 24 missions and three acts. You take the role of Morgan Black and his family which struggle against a mysterious European cult. You can also challenge yourself in the multiplayer mode where you can command one of the eight European powers (from French to Russian). A new addition to the game mechanics is the home city in Europe which regularly sends supplies or military reinforcements. It is persistent and after multiplayer successes you gain the ability to upgrade it through a tech tree.

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Awards

GameSpy 2005 – #5 PC Game of the Year 2005 – PC RTS of the Year 2005 – Best Graphics of the Year (PC)

GameStar (Germany) 2006 - Best PC Strategy Game in 2005 (Readers' Voting)

Golden Joystick Awards 2006 - Online Game of the Year

PC Powerplay (Germany) Issue 04/2006 - #1 Strategy Game in 2005 (Readers' Vote) Issue 02/2006 - #3 Strategy Game in 2005

Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication Early January 2007 - Distinguished Award for Technical Writing and Editing (for the manual and quick reference card)



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uses a modified version of the Age of Mythology engine.The Windows version uses the Havok physics engine. Few modern Mac titles use it because of its licensing fee. MacSoft gutted Havok from the game and substituted it with a significantly less expensive technology called PhysX , developed by AGEIA for its Mac port.