Posted on: February 2, 2015

KingFelix1974

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Worthy successor of AoW series

Age of Wonders 3 is a very good game. For those who played and enjoyed previous installments of this series, I'd say it's not yet up to AoW: Shadow Magic, but getting there fast, probably with the next DLC. It has solid AI and quite a number of options (classes) to choose from, where your gameplay will differ depending on your class, specialisations and your enemies. Now, I won't write about Campaign extensively because I generally play random maps against AI - I played first few maps in elven campaign and it looked ok, but I don't play AoW for campaigns anyway. Random map generator is solid and it has a number of options to make each game setup pretty different if you like that. You can also create custom leaders for your empire and save it for future play. What the game currently lacks are some improvements in random map generator, mainly that you can additionaly edit randomly generated maps. Also, more active community meaning more user made scenarios and campaigns. Other than that, it's an awesome game that'll make you spend many hours on. I would also strongly suggest buying the first expansion (Golden Realms) and the upcoming DLC for added races and specialisations. The game is worthy every $ or € you put into it.

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Posted on: January 31, 2017

xKeiro

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A very underrated gem

Let me just say this: Since I found Age of Wonders 3, I haven't touched any other 4X strategy game, because this game just resonates with me. If you haven't tried it yet, I would give it a try for sure. If you like strategy games, I seriously think that this is a must have. Note: All expansions are really well made, and worth every penny.

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Posted on: April 2, 2014

chickenhed

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Astonishing Game

Wow. This game is remarkable. I've been a fan of the Age of Wonders series for quite some time and this incredible title has managed to both play homage to the classics and bring fresh life to the series. The greatest strength of AoW3 is the replayability. There are endless strategies of race/class combinations that keep you thinking about the game even when you aren't playing it. The random map generator is perfect and the art style and music really immerse you into the game world as well. I often set up "good vs evil" games where I play a Human Theocrat or a High Elf Archdruid, setting myself up against and evil warlord/necromancer/or rogue. Because of the aforementioned art style and music, I always feel immersed and often create my own stories as the game progresses. AoW3 really encourages this type of imagination. I feel like I'm playing an early 90's rpg, where I create stories in my head to make up for the game not being able to display it graphically. Which always ended up being a more memorable gaming experience. AoW3 has no graphical limitations, but because it is so well crafted I often feel like I did back then. Phenomenal. Lastly I will touch a bit on the actual gameplay. The combat, as I'm sure you've read by this point, is the strongest gameplay element of AoW3. It is deep and strategic, yet is is simple enough to grasp right away (easy to learn, hard to master). Perfect combination there. While detailed empire building is indeed not the major focus of the game, I still feel it is better than many give it credit for. Planning your expansion cities to make sure you get specific resources that enhance your armies is critical and extremely fun. Plan expansion accordingly! As a tip, most people don't think to play with neutral AI cities and dwellings off. If you do this, you and you alone are responsible for expanding properly and before your opponent. Great fun and adds even more depth. Buy the game people. Full price + expansions. Well worth it.

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Posted on: November 18, 2014

souzakreekie

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Just one more turn :)

This game really captures the 'just one more turn!'-feeling. It is addicting and the game becomes better with each patch & DLC. Pros: [list] [*] A beautiful strategic map [*] Combat is fast, brutal and entertaining [*] It is fun to level your Heroes and Leader; it adds RPG to the game. Also quests that can be gained from independent cities or dwellings add to RPG-feel. [*] Concept of Race & Class for your Leader provide much variety in play. For example, you can play as a Orc Sorcerer, Dwarven Warlord, Elven Rogue etc. [*] Classes are really different from each other; this applies to gameplay, spells and units. See [url=http://age-of-wonders-3.wikia.com/wiki/Classes]this wiki[/url] for an overview (click the class name for more info). [*] Nice campaigns with different outcomes [*] A pretty good Random Map generator with tons of options [*] Users make custom scenarios and challenges with Map Editor [*] Great music [*] Triumph Studios listens really well to the community and has fixed (almost) all bugs/issues [/list] Cons: [list] [*] In general races could be more varied. The good news is that Triumph is working on this and it is expected to improve in the next patch. See [url=http://ageofwonders.com/improving-race-variety-starting-perks/]this official dev journal[/url] (nov 2014) [*] Although the idea behind alignment is nice (good/neutral/evil is based on your actions and not on your race choice), it remains a bit shallow imo. [*] MOD-tools are not released at this moment (nov 2014). They most probably will in the future though. [/list] Other comments: [list] [*] For new-comers to the game it can be difficult to learn and to master. It is recommended to watch some videos on YouTube if you are new to the Age of Wonder-series. For example: How to play Age of Wonders 3-videos by iHunterKiller. Link: [url=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhAjLeSwzp3hLPeLqY2p-R7Ubbauwhxpe]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhAjLeSwzp3hLPeLqY2p-R7Ubbauwhxpe[/url] [*] I cannot comment on Multiplayer as I didn't have much experience on it. [*] At release the AI was in certain situations not very clever. With the patches this has been greatly improved making it a real challenge on higher levels. [/list] Overall I recommend this game to anyone who has an interest in Turn Based Strategy games.

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Posted on: March 2, 2015

braneman

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Great game, Bad campaign

It is my considered advice that you should NEVER touch the campaign for age of wonders 3, the early missions are boring slogs unless you blitz them and nobody is ready to blitz the campaign starting out. And eventually(by 4rth mission) they just become incredibly boring slogs where they just throw an entire map at you and say "The AI can see the entire map and has huge armies, we don't care if you know they cheat" I would consider the campaigns a disaster overall if the story wasn't interesting. There were also several times when the game would autosave at a point where I had already lost. However washing our hands of the single player campaign I can tell you about the meat of the game: the random maps. The random maps in this game are fantastic, and are completely the opposite of the campaign mode. This is the first game in existence where good, evil and neutral options make equal amounts of sense(in random maps) and playing them feels fairly natural. In addition to that since the game has released the developers have patched in balance changes to every race and class in the game and now they all play very differently. One of the better aspects of the game for me is the game is complex having all sorts of bonuses like +3 damage to x monster and whatnot, but its not hard to understand and there are very few hard counters. I think that deserves attention since a lot of 4x games like this obfuscate EVERYTHING behind made up terms and fluff. Age of Wonders 3 has a searchable wiki with the stats of everything built into the game. The last thing I want to mention is about that "there are no hard counters" thing. If you've played Starcraft 2 you know what a hard counter is, zerglings will never win against hellions without unreasonable levels of micro. AOW 3 has almost nothing like that, with the proper strategy you can take down a tier 4 unit with nothing but tier 1's and I like that a lot because it rewards being smart more than just building better units.

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