Secondly, the traditional cards that ship '2 settlers,' '3 settlers,' and so on have been replaced with migration cards. First of all, China's maximum population cap is higher than that of other civs. For instance, will the nation's sizeable population figure into what the nation is all about in the game?īrian Reynolds: When thinking about playing the Chinese in a strategy game, it is certainly intuitive to think, 'There should be a lot of Chinese people!'-and indeed, several of China's powers fall along this line. GameSpot: Tell us about China as a faction, and its unique abilities and characteristics. Given its large size and rich history, China seems like a natural choice for The Asian Dynasties expansion. To give us the details, we turned to Brian Reynolds, creative director and CEO of developer Big Huge Games. We previously covered the Japanese and Indian factions, and now we have the details on the third and final addition: China.

Due out later this year, The Asian Dynasties will introduce three new civilizations in addition to a host of new units and wonders, which are powerful structures that bestow special bonuses and abilities. You also recruit military units to defend your borders or expand them by force. In other words, create a town or city and improve and expand it by gathering resources, researching technologies, and building new structures. Your job: make your civilization thrive through economic and military development. In Age of Empires III you control a civilization from the age of exploration and colonization to the beginning of the industrial age. Microsoft's epic real-time strategy game Age of Empires III will get a bit bigger with The Asian Dynasties, the second expansion pack that will add new content and features to the historically themed series.

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