AOE III - My Review

[Freddy_Kruger]

I often wonder why age of mythology doesnt get any respect, I must have played that game for a hundred hours.

[Transfurzz]

I often wonder why age of mythology doesnt get any respect, I must have played that game for a hundred hours.

Ditto, I loved it.

[Samduhman]

I often wonder why age of mythology doesnt get any respect, I must have played that game for a hundred hours.

Your not the only one

[Freddy_Kruger]

Your not the only one

one thing AOM did was allow you to build walls and upgrade them 3 or 4 times, I loved that. I used to make mazes, then put towers and archers close by. The monsters will walk through the maze rather than destroying the wall if it senses there is an opening. By the time they get through my mazes there dead, lol.

So much replay value in age of mythology, way too adictive for me.

[spamjedi]

one thing AOM did was allow you to build walls and upgrade them 3 or 4 times, I loved that. I used to make mazes, then put towers and archers close by. The monsters will walk through the maze rather than destroying the wall if it senses there is an opening. By the time they get through my mazes there dead, lol.

So much replay value in age of mythology, way too adictive for me.

There used to be a ton of "Tower Defense" custom maps for Warcraft 3 on Battle.net using that same maze concept. Pretty fun.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I couldn't stand Empire Earth II. And I've played and at one point owned every game in the series (EE, Empires, and EE II).

IMO, it was just mindless farming/resource gathering and mindlessly cranking out as many fodder units possible to throw at the enemy before he tank-rushed your colony.
Compounded by the fact that no matter what the difficulty, the CPU was always vastly more efficient and coordinated than any human could ever be, made it completley unenjoyable. By the time I had a decent economy and 5 basic defense units, the CPU was already up to 40 strong units and expanding all over the map with perfectly managed little resource colonies everywhere you looked.
I can see how multiplayer might be fun, but SP was a chore.

I found older RTS games like AOE 2 and Starcraft to be much more balanced in that respect than any of the EE games.