game was given an 'honorable mention' in the 'Best Music' category. Yahoo!'s report differed, but still had many positive features. Like GameSpy, Yahoo! also praised the effort put into the graphics and physics, but maintained that these are essentially eye-candy. Both Yahoo! and Eurogamer were disappointed by the traditional economics-based strategy of the game and believed that this, with the lack of useful formation and tactics, meant that the game does not stand up to other modern real-time strategy games. Eurogamer shared these final thoughts and described the new Home City shipments, along with all the treasures scattered around the map, as silly and childish ways of trying to complement the game's lack of strategy and tactical choices. However, Eurogamer recognized that Ensemble Studios was brave to implement "something quite different" from other real time strategy games — the Home City concept. References External links Age of Empires III at MobyGames 2005 video games Age of Discovery video games 3.0 Cultural depictions of George Washington Cultural depictions of Isabella I of Castile Cultural depictions of Simón Bolívar Games for Windows certified games Glu Mobile games MacOS games MacSoft games Multiplayer and single-player video games Multiplayer online games N-Gage service games Real-time strategy video games Video game sequels Video games developed in the United States Video games scored by Stephen Rippy Video games set in Chile Video games set in Cuba Video games set in Florida Video games set in New England Video games set in Malta Video games set in Mexico Video games set in Texas Video games set in Venezuela Video games using Havok Video games with expansion packs Windows games Windows Mobile Professional games