While the gameplay depth was there, the games were easy to pick up. Microsoft’s Age of Empires games had a sense of purity that is somewhat lost in more modern real-time strategy games. With this remaster, would I still feel the same some fifteen years later? This third outing, taking the series into the colonial period, whilst a leap forward visually, seemed overly contrived compared to its forebears.
For me, it was Age of Empires II that was my particular favourite. The last of the series, Age of Empires III wasn’t a game that I played much back in the day. Ensemble Studios’ classic real-time strategy (RTS) game returns with fresh visuals as Age of Empires III Definitive Edition.
