Finally, a strategy game that lets you build stuff and then blow it up in a cool way. The upcoming and fully three-dimensional Age Empires III, for Mac and P.C., has a Havok physics engine, which is found in Xbox, GameCube and PS2 games. The whole thing may sound like gibberish, but the Havok renders amazing detail when cannons hit ships and forts. It even allows for "ragdoll physics," which is essentially an anatomical sketch for characters. This means more realistic, ragdoll-like deaths. Cool indeed.

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