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New AoE III Expansion on the Horizon!, "The Asian Dynasties" coming in fall!

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Lemming 1545

Posted: Aug 8 2007, 02:02 PM

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As taken from the latest issue of Game Informer:

QUOTE (Game Informer @ August 2007)

Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Wait a minute - isn't Age of Empires developer Ensemble Studios working on Halo Wars? That is indeed the case, but another member of the Microsoft fold, Big Huge Games, is handling the heavy lifting for this expansion pack's development. The Asian Dynasties will, oddly enough, add a slew of Eastern cultures to the game. Fifteen Wonders native to those civilizations, like the Great Wall of China, will also make an appearance. The usual stable of multiplayer enhancements and new content is also included. RTS fans should get access to this latest reason to boot up their PCs sometime this fall.

So, this marks the first time that more than one expansion pack has been developed for a single Age of Empires game. Frankly, I think this is awesome - the Native American civilizations introduced in the WarCheifs expansion some months back were throroughly disappointing to me; being vastly underpowered compared to the European ones, mainly due to their lack of cannons. Sure, the features, technologies, units, and cards added to the pre-existing civilizations were nice, but it was still a shame to be shafted out of worthwhile new civilizations to play as.

Asian-based civilizations, however, should be on equal technological footing with their European counterparts. One of the coolest things about the Conquerors expansion for AoE II was all the cool new civilizations it added to the game, so the Asian Dynasties expansion ought to be a lot of fun to mess around with upon its release. Hopefully, they'll add even more cards to the old civilizations as well, so my level 90 Ottoman Home City will have a reason to gain experience again. XD

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Shadow90	Posted: Aug 8 2007, 04:14 PM
Member of the Bob Sagat Death Squad Group: Member Posts: 130 Member No.: 11 Joined: 29-July 07	I really hope the Koreans come back, so I can see those awesome Turtle Boats and maybe see some new weapons.

Lemming 1545	Posted: Oct 27 2007, 09:40 AM
Your Friendly Human Dictionary Group: Administrator Posts: 442 Member No.: 1 Joined: 26-July 07	Guys, this expansion is OUT already. Came out on the 23rd, and totally flew under my radar. XD Anybody have it yet? I wanna see! -------------------- "A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?' So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!' So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?' and I say 'No, that's trendy!'" --Billie Joe

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