AoE III: Preview at Gamespy

“The Age of Empires designers like to play fast and loose with history. Accuracy is good, but gameplay is better: so when it came time to choose which civilizations will be featured building colonies in the New World, Ensemble threw in a couple of “what ifs…”

“The list of nations below, and their unique abilities, is subject to change before the game’s final release. What is known, however, is that each nation will have a visually unique Home City with its own tech tree to study. Some of these nations we got to play around with during our extensive hands-on time with the game, such as the French or British. The others we saw only briefly. On to the list!”

Check out the full preview at Gamespy.