
So, for anyone familiar with its lineage - the entire RTS community - AoE III was expected to be spectacular. In the last ten years, the Age series and the Warcraft series were by far the best RTS games available.

It's a solid game, fun to play, no glaring problems, some minor innovations that add to the experience, but it's also the third incarnation in an incredible series of real-time strategy games. And that's precisely the problem with Age of Empires III.

The weight of expectations handicaps some games, making it difficult to fully appreciate a good game when you expected a great game.
