"With an isometric layout, the D pad doesn't match up exactly to the directions on the screen for moving your cursor, but by including a choice of cursor control methods you should be able to find one that fits your own style. This ability to do even a touch of customisation to the core control method is a nice touch. It's also nice that your soldiers will react to enemy soldiers on their own when they come into sight, saving you fighting a cursor and scrolling screen to issue a “get on and fight them!” order. You can still group your troops together and lead them on a charge if you so wish, their AI is for defensive purposes only."
Reviewed: Age of Empires III on N-Gage
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Over on our sister site, All About N-Gage, Ewan reviews Age of Empires III. Thankfully, for an N-Gage title, there's full online multiplayer gameplay, but even without this there's plenty of Real Time Strategy to get your teeth into, with quick 'Skirmish' and career 'Campaign' modes. Still, I suspect it's the excitement of online multiplayer action which prompts the highish score - kudos to the developers, Glu Mobile.