Speaking in general about all parts of AOE, in my opinion, the second part remains the best and everyone’s favorite.
The third part turned out to be much more boring.
In this part, such a resource as stone was removed (previously there was food, stone, wood, gold), residents began to put the extracted resources in their pockets (in the second part they took them to special places for storage), units do not react if they shoot at him, get confused in three pine trees, there are much fewer civilizations themselves than in the second part.
We can talk about the disadvantages of this part for a long time.
Even the number of players on Steam will show that it was the third part that turned out to be the most unsuccessful.