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· Civilizations: Each civilization has its own benefits. Depending on your playing style you much choose which civilization is right for you. [|See Website] o Spanish o French o Dutch o Russian o British o Portuguese o German o Ottoman The antagonist in the game is your explorer. The map is black to start out with you can uncover areas of the map by exploring with your explorer. While this is going on you must put you settlers to work gathering food, chopping wood and mining for gold. Those are the 3 main commodities in the game food, wood, gold. With food you can feed your settlers and the population can grow. With wood you can build buildings and shops. With gold you can buy food, wood, or build soldiers which you will need. You progress through the game through Ages. They include: · [|Discovery Age], which represents the discovery and exploration of the Americas by Europeans and allows the player to explore and develop their economy · [|Colonial Age], which represents the European Expansion into the "New World" and unlocks early military units · [|Fortress Age], which represents the fortification of the European colonies, unlocks forts, and allows the player to have a more complete military · [|Industrial Age], which triggers a strong economy, due in part to factories—advanced buildings that automatically produce resources or artillery—and unlocks all units and shipments · [|Imperial Age], which unlocks all buildings and upgrades, and allows you to send unit and resource shipments a second time. All Ages cost food and coin to advance to, except the Colonial Age, which only costs food. The price of age advancement is incremental, but does not vary between civilizations. (Wikipedia, 2009 verified by game play) To win the game you must build your civilization faster and better than anyone else. You must build you armies and do battles with other civilizations until you are victorious! There are educational implications to this game. The agers are historically correct but they progress way too fast and while they can contain historical names of figure they do not contain any facts. Critical thinking skills and strategy is a must. This could have great implications for a play and report on your civilization.
 * __ Age of Empires III __**
 * 3 different genres: ** AOE III, AOE III: Asian Dynasty, AOE III War Chiefs [|Video]
 * Type: ** Real Time Strategy (RTS)
 * Mode : ** Multi-Player, Online, Campaign
 * Task: ** World Domination
 * Focus: ** Age of Empires III, Multi-player Online
 * Game Play: ** Pick a civilization. With each civilization you get a Home city, from that home city you get specific resources to start out with. Each civilization receives different resources and has different strengths and weaknesses.