Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player commands armies that fire muskets and cannons and fight in melee against enemy soldiers; units collapse and vanish when killed, with no blood, visible wounds, or bodies remaining.
The historical campaigns are framed around colonial-era warfare and conquest; the conflict and death sit in the story and setting rather than being shown in graphic close-up.
Wild animals such as deer and bison can be hunted for food as a routine resource-gathering mechanic, with no graphic butchery or on-screen gore.
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What it is
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition is a remastered real-time strategy game set roughly between the 1500s and 1800s, in which you build a settlement, gather resources, advance through ages, and command armies of colonial-era troops across single-player campaigns, skirmishes, and online multiplayer. Combat is fought at RTS scale with musketeers, cavalry, cannons, and warships; soldiers fall when defeated but the game shows no blood, wounds, or gore. Wild animals like deer and bison can be hunted for food as ordinary resource gathering. There is no sexual content, profanity, or substance use in the game itself. Online play lets you chat and match with other people over the internet, and the title supports mods; there are no in-game real-money purchases.
How it's framed
The game presents its historical warfare as strategy and competition rather than spectacle, abstracting battle into unit management with no dwelling on injury or suffering. Its campaigns dramatize colonial-era conflict as an adventure story, and violence is framed as tactical maneuvering between armies rather than depicted brutality.
Details
- Developer
- World's Edge
- Publisher
- Xbox Game Studios
- Released
- Oct 15, 2020
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