Age of Empires 3 - The WarChiefs (PC)

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Age of Empires 3 - The WarChiefs (PC) (2006)
genre: strategy

score: 81%
users: 78%

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'All told, it's quite a lot of newness from an expansion pack, and in many ways makes for a pretty considerable shift from how the original game works.'
Read more » Eurogamer
'If you loved Age of Empires 3, you’ll love the expansion. If you only mildly enjoyed the game, you may have mixed feelings here,and may be pretty let down.'
Read more » GameShark
'While the additional content is a little light, the game still delivers solid strategy both online and off.'
Read more » GameChronicles
'It's a tough act to pull off, but The WarChiefs manages to walk that fine line between familiarity and new material quite well. Age of Empires III veterans are going to love it.'
Read more » GamesRadar
'Some of the Native American concepts offer a nice twist, as does the inclusion of revolutions and monopolies, but to be totally honest, they could just call the game More Age of Empires III and we'd still line up to play it.'
Read more » IGN
'More great Age of Empires fun. The new Native American tribes are great, although the single-player campaign is a bit of a let-down.'
Read more » GamingNexus
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'The only problem lies in the hefty system requirements that are required to produce all this eye candy; if you don't have the rig necessary to run it at a high enough setting, you miss out on the true beauty of the game.'
Read more » GamePro
'The newly playable native factions don’t perform particularly well, and the campaign is the very definition of average. Some different rulesets for online play may cater to certain fans, but The Warchiefs would come much more highly recommended if it did anything to clean up the messy unit AI that hampers nearly every aspect of play.'
Read more » GameInformer
'An exciting exercise in completely rethinking old strategies. And this, after all, is what the best expansion packs do: not just add, but entirely revise.'
Read more » 1up.com
'A must have expansion pack for any gamer who owns the original game.'
Read more » GameZone
'The single-player game has its charms, but the new multiplayer additions are the real reason to pick up The WarChiefs.'
Read more » Gamespy
'The WarChiefs expansion adds some interesting new elements to the tried-and-true gameplay of Age of Empires III.'
Read more » Gamespot
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