age of empires 3 definitive edition review

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However, I also have a gripe with two points in regards to the sound.

The music builds and crescendos, keeping you tense and really pulling you in for an immersive experience. Each sound rings true individually lending itself to the chaotic nature of what is happening. The explosions of mortars, the clash of swords, the fire and reloading of crossbows. You can distinguish the different sounds of the units in a cluster of noise. This has a very, very impressive sound design. What really took my notice early is the sound. This is somewhat padded out with the typical timed defence missions, but they are very few and far between. Depending on your skill level you can easily expect close to 15 hours of gameplay alone from just these three campaigns. 3 campaigns are instantly available for you.

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The series that is generally well known for its multiplayer ability offers a tremendous amount of solo play to warrant anyone picking the game up. Whilst I probably didn’t push it to the limits hard enough, there was easily sections with 60+ units on screen, as well as flame effects, buildings on fire, arrows flying across the screen, and it didn’t break down once. The game also runs incredibly well despite these visual improvements. Each unit is easily distinguishable from others and appear to have a bit of love put in them. Character models are smoother, particularly in the main hero characters where there is enough facial detail now that you can actually see their face, rather than a blurred mess that RTS games tend to take liberty with.

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There is a clear visual upgrade from the original to this version. A small touch, but one that you can easily experiment with, and find the specific layout that works best for you.

The Definitive Layout is probably the most visually accessible option, with the most important information very obvious in your face, whilst areas you probably don’t need to see constantly are kept neatly out of immediate view. Classic and Default are very similar and allow for people more familiar with previous AoE games to have a HUD layout that seems more familiar. A small touch is HUD options given to you early on.