Whatever your preference, the options are there, and you can resize the initially oversized UI too.įurther smoothing things out are various mechanical tweaks. For most, though, the 'Definitive' UI is probably the way to go, making those precious resource counters displayed large and clear at the top of your screen.

Nostalgics can opt for a cleaner version of the original UI minus the excess of wooden veneer that boxed in the action in the 2005 version (I, for one, would like to have had the original UI in all its screen-hogging glory). It may be demanding and intense, but Age of Empires 3 is also deceptively simple.