stingerhs Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 i'm not sure if a lot of people know (or care) that the demo for Ages of Empires: III has been released. i personally took a crack at it, and i have to admit that it is a lot more fun than Empire Earth II. it has a similarly complicated economy system, but it only has three resources, so its easier to manage. as for Empire Earth II, it was fun, but it's depth didn't last long, and the devs didn't seem too interested in trying to balance the game the way its supposed to be(whoever heard of two spearman able to pwn a tank???). AoE: III seems like its going to be a much better game. anybody tried it yet?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOssusKeeper Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I haven't tried it yet, but I have all of the AoE series so far, and can't wait for the 3rd in the series to come out... cool games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForceFightWMe12 Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 No, I never have, but I've played AoE II, Age of Kings, but nothing else. I do look forward to the game though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snafu7 Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I've never really played any AOE before(besides the AOE II demo I think), but this game looks great. I'm DLing right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_H Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I have also played it and let me tell you it was great. The way you can see parts of buildings fly off after canon fire and how cannons just blow the enemy units away like rag dolls just makes it more realistic. I intent to buy it when it comes out or sometime after, depending on my financial situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T7nowhere Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I've heard some good things about this game, Even from Hardcore FPS fans, so it must be good Going to get my copy of the demo now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I got the demo, but haven't had a chance to try it out... Hopoefully I'll get a chance to later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblue789 Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Downloading the demo now. Played the other to AoE's, and they're both great (Korea ownz! Well, not really, but I like to say it does just because Korea is sexy like that) and if this one isn't great as well, I will not be happeh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snafu7 Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I just played it for a while, it's awesome, the detail they put into it is encredible, it's a great demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblue789 Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 For a demo, it's awesome! And the game itself looks real nice too. Although WC3 and SC will probably remain my favorites, I might just get AoE3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_H Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 I've heard some good things about this game, Even from Hardcore FPS fans, so it must be good Going to get my copy of the demo now. By FPS do you mean First Person Shooter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOssusKeeper Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 By FPS do you mean First Person Shooter? yup, FPS stands for First Person Shooters... Edit: Feet Per Second, Fields Per Second, Fast Packet Switching, Fedreal Protective Service... Man, it's gonna' take to 200 years to download this thing i hate dial-up internet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Naw. I loved AoE, AoEII was OK, and AoM was.....reasonable...ish. I'm hoping III will be amazing........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourdad Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 My thoughts are at this thread:http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=151998 Note that the people there are mostly big RTS players. But anyway, I'll repost what I posted back there. My thoughts: Graphics 9/10: Although it will require you a monster of a machine to run it at high settings, at medium, it still looked pretty good. There are no flaws except the high requirements for the best visuals. The loadings are also very short. I noticed a few animation bugs. Sound 7/10: The music is unimpressive. They've remixed the old AoE theme but the in-game music is subpar compared to AoK or AoM. Sound effects are also not very good. Though they aren't inherently bad, they lack a certain "crispiness". Gameplay 6/10: Why 6? Well, first of, while the makers of the game did specify that there's a huge diversity of units in that era. The game doesn't show it much. The number of units available to you in one civ is a disappointment. The game still retains that AoE battle feel which is a little unfortunate. Musketeers are not much fun to play with. If you were expecting line battles like Cossacks or Imperial Glory, you won't find it here. Battle is a disappointment for me. It might be due to the low number of units or it might simply be because nothing is changed. Other then that, you still gather ressources, build a town and make an army to attack your enemy. Not much originality, but the formula works and that's what is important. It still works after all these years. Another gameplay change is the card set and your home city. Cards give bonus in the form of ressources, buildings or units that get shipped in from your home city after you gather enough experience. It is interesting, but I don't see how things can be balanced correctly, as it seems some cards are quite overpowered. We'll see how it turns out. Another new addition are the trade routes. These are very different from the ones in the old Age games. In a way, I wished it was like the old Age games. Right now, trade routes offer a too small advantage for the attrocious job of defending them. The addition of natives is also there though they don't offer much. They're not that interesting to play with, though for the minor sum of a trade post you can ally with them and you can build their units. It's still a worthwhile investment. So why only 6? Well, the battles are simply boring. No unit has any "fun" or "cool" factor. They're all rather boring. Musketeers don't stay in formation when ordered to attack several different units. There's no line battles at all. Units take too long to make. Battles are nothing more then very small skirmishes. AoM had more epic battles then this, so did AoK. At least AoM had cool units. Here, we have nothing. Lastly, there's the campaign. Which doesn't look good. The in-engine cinematics are not very beautiful. Dawn of War managed to do something excellent in terms of in-engine cinematics last year. Hey, even AoM had better in-engine cinematics. The story looks awfully bad, but you only get to play two missions of the third campaign so I can't really judge all of them on that only. Frankly, I expected something much better then this. I know it's only a demo, but if this is what the whole game is like, forget it, I won't fork out any money for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_H Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 I just played the demo again and saw how big the sailing vessels are. They have to be the largest units in any RTS, that came with the game originaly, I have ever seen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted September 13, 2005 Author Share Posted September 13, 2005 ^^^^ yeah, that's because somebody finally proportioned their size correctly. whoever came up with the idea of putting 6' tall persons into a 10' x 12' ship anyway??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 ehh, Demos usually satisfy my RTS urges, so I may dl it eventually, but I'm not sure which one it actually is, what sets it apart from others, in terms of new features? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedHawke Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 yeah, that's because somebody finally proportioned their size correctly. whoever came up with the idea of putting 6' tall persons into a 10' x 12' ship anyway??? I know, this was always a sticking point with me too. But the technology has sufficiently advanced so hopefully this will start a trend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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