Age of Empires III - Collector’s Edition
After playing the AOE3 demo for a good 5 minutes, I knew I had to have the full game. I went to EB Games to get me a copy and, honest to god, I was going for the normal version. But that clerk just had to ask if I didnd’t want the Collector’s Edition instead, he just had to ask!
“No thanks, but just curious, what’s in it?” - I naively asked.
- A hardbound 200+ page artwork book
- The “Making of the game” DVD
- Soundtrack CD
- A poster
- Player’s guide
- The Game manual
- And of course the game itself
All in a very cool box too. At this point I’m drooling all over the counter, so I ask the one question that I know will solve my drooling problem because I’ll hate the answer: “how much is it?”. I was sure it was going to be $85+
“70 bucks” he says.
Damn, I *had* to have it and so I did :)
The game comes in 3 CDs instead of a just a nice DVD, but that’s okay, it’s not like I need to install it often. At this point I’ve only played the tutorial stuff, but I read the books that come with it, and they’re absolutely great.
Because the game is around “The Age of Discovery” with New World stuff and stuff, we get to play the Portuguese as well (take that Big Huge Games). The other civs are Dutch, Brits, French, Spanish, Russian, German and Ottoman.
Get the Collector’s Edition here for only $60.
Matt said,
November 1, 2005 @ 3:42 pm
*Mostly* seems like AOE2 + graphics update. It’s fun like AOE2 is fun, though. I was focused on trying to beat the computer in a skirmish on “hard” and have now done that twice, but with some save/restore action as I recall. My next goal is to try a campaign, my Maltese Knights are on episode 4 or so and I’m losing momentum.