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Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties Expansion (PC) |  | From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £24.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1010
Platform: Windows XP
Genre: world-builder-strategy-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 9UB-00009
UPC: 882224531283
EAN: 0882224531283
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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"Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties" is the second expansion pack for the massively popular "Age of Empires III," one of the fastest-selling titles in the franchise history*, from Ensemble Studios and Microsoft Game Studios. Engaging gamers of all ages and types in epic warfare in the Eastern world, "Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties" will lead Japanese, Chinese and Indian civilizations to expand their empires."Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties" is the latest installment in the award-winning "Age of Empires" franchise, developed collaboratively by Big Huge Games and Ensemble Studios for the Games for Windows platform.
Product Description
Expansion Pack Requires Age Of Empires III To Play - Playable Asian civilizations. Lead one of three unique Asian civilizations - Japan, China or India - to expand its empire and fight for control in the Eastern world. Each Asian civilization, led by powerful leaders, has unique groups, armies and wonders, as well as buildings that reflect the culture`s architectural style.
- New gameplay elements. Extending the innovative gameplay of Age of Empires III, Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties introduces new ways of winning and trading, random map styles that feature remixes of classic Age of Empires game styles, and 15 new Asian Wonders.
- Exciting new single-player campaign. Returning to the historical, civilization-based single-player campaigns, Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties offers gamers who enjoy the solo experience a chance to engage in strategic combat with Japan, China or India through several engrossing scenarios.
- Expanding a successful formula. Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties is the second expansion pack for the massively popular Age of Empires III, one of the fastest-selling titles in the franchise history, leading and innovating the real-time strategy genre through exciting and revolutionary gameplay features.
- Games for Windows franchise. This expansion pack also ships as a Games for Windows title, offering easier installation, reliability standards and support for key features of Windows Vista, including the Games Explorer and Parental Controls.
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 Interesting addition will suit hardened fans July 19, 2010
M. McManus
This add-on allows you to play as Japan, China or India. Each has its own unique battle units and technological advantages. Perhaps the most noticeable difference is the different economic abilities. Asian civilizations cannot hunt for food, they must instead construct shrines which generate food slowly. This will take a fair bit of getting used to for players used to the European civilizations, and on maps with lots of animals to hunt, the inability to hunt could be a major tactical disadvantage.
In terms of military, Japan can produce powerful units call "Daimyo", who have a halo effect of boosting the armour and attack points of any units in their orbit. China produces armies in batches from a barracks, which dispatches a mixed army of the type you want, and also has good siege weapons. India has elephants, though they tend to be expensive, both in terms of resources and population limit room.
All in all, this is a good addition for hardened fans of the game. More casual fans might find the add-on not particularly useful.
 Another excellent game from ensemble studios October 6, 2009
Ms. C. Woodhead (UK)
Although just an expansion pack this game has enough content and new additions to reawaken my thirst for the game. The game oozes quality and stability, for example the graphics are still good even by today's standards and the game has never crashed on me, even playing on full settings, which is more than I can say for the Total War series.
The campaign section was just the right length and took you though Japan, China and India. I played it on easy and thought this setting was great.
The new cultures have new technologies and bonuses, the new maps on skirmish mode are a nice addition as I expected. It has a massive replayability factor.
A very worthy expansion pack.
Brilliant, but shies away from the point a little. July 21, 2009
S. Lockwood
This expansion is brilliant in almost every regard! It's just as good AOE 3 as the others, and everything it brings in blows what the war chiefs brings in out of the water! It's great in every respect but one! The whole point of AOE 3 was the new world, the first explorations of the americas and the natives there. Only one of the 3 campaigns has anything to do with that. But that is the only disappointment. The story is great, and imaginitive. The new cultures are fantastic, and there's even a new resource! Now, what other AOE expansions can say that!!
This is a great expansion, but for people who are storyline fussy, this may not be your cup of tea.
Good RTS but not the best May 18, 2009
John (UK)
The game is decent at best. But its cheap so how can I complain?
A good add on and the units are very diverse.
New strategies are introduced with the Chinese, Japanese and Indian nations due to new strengths and weaknesses.
Graphics are nice and colourful, voices are done authentically, gameplay is same as always, thus reliable and fun.
Shame the music could do more touching up on but hey, thats why we have our own music right?
great March 25, 2009
this game is brilliant, lots of fun and interesting I have learnt a lot from it.
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