I dug up AoE3 just a few days ago from the forlorn tatterdemalion of my desk. It's a real-time strategy game, now actually growing old. Its parent studio has died, its series with it... But alas! So returns the ridiculous joy of obliterating hordes of knights and crossbowmen with lines and lines of medieval artillery.
Age of Empires III is terrific because it looks decent enough, runs well (even on my machine), allows for massive gameplay with large armies both over land and sea, long games, and actually demands use of strategy. Simple as that. It's an older game, which means it still has creative cheats and easter eggs for added ridiculousness... Hm. What else? Multiplayer. A damn long campaign. A "scenario creator", which basically lets you do literally whatever you want, from map-making to army-building to whatever. Destruction looks great in an old RTS kinda way; buildings fly into individual dynamic bits when mortars tear them apart, people fly through the air left and right, and trees get blown in half. Plus ships shatter and sink. It all looks nice.
I mean, that's pretty much it. Just a genuinely enjoyable game. If you have the resources, you can build as large and imbalanced an army as you want (believe me, I know). The fact that it can't hold up to tens of thousands of individual troops like some other games kinda sucks, but hey, you really don't need that many to get a sense of the genocides you're instigating. I don't like how stereotypically it depicts indigenous peoples, but hey, watchagonnado. I don't know much about RTSs in the market and the competition therein, but I say, if you can get this game cheap, ya should.
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