All nations are unique with their own game mechanics, units, cards, buildings and playstyles
Card shipments speed up early game play and allows more gameplay variation
simple unit counter system
the game looks beautiful and building up a city is satisfying.
gunpowder era combat is really fun and I like blowing up formations of infantry with cannons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't realise they had released all these definitive editions! It only feels like yesterday that they did the re-release of AoE2 and apparently that was 10 years ago. Those screen shots look amazing!

I have played AoE3 (original) years ago, and enjoyed it, but didn't remember much about it. It looks like the definitive edition has a free trial, so I might give it a go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A cool thing that the aoe3 definitive edition brings is historical battles which are pretty fun scenarios where the odds are stacked against you. These can be played solo or co op.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably not in the free trial but I'll take a look 🙂

Edit: They did have one mission in the free trial.