Age Of Empires III

Originally posted by OSMANLI WHAT! only 8 civilizations. All being European powers. Big shame, would have liked a more international presence

Isn't Turkey part of Asia also?

Originally posted by OSMANLI WHAT! only 8 civilizations. All being European powers. Big shame, would have liked a more international presence

They left the game fairly open so taht tehy can do an expansion later one. All big selling RTS games are created with expansions already planned

WHAT! only 8 civilizations. All being European powers. Big shame, would have liked a more international presence

Yeah. RTS games tend to get old, especially when we have RTW around...

Well, in a way, RTW is also a RTS game. Remember how armies battle?

AOE is good, RTW is better. It's that simple.

The graphics are great, but the age we play in is really boring. I think I will go on playing RTW:BI.

i played the demo too... after playing Rome this game to say the least completely SUCKS!

Originally posted by Temujin I agree, but i didn't expected any other way, i also had and have no intention to get the full game, the demo just confirmed by predictions.

I agree, AOE just seems childish after playing RTW.  I guess my days of playing simple resource gathering games is over.

Played it today! Well, it was 3D, and that means it sucked. Not a single 3D RTS has ever played well enough to be played more than once. It was like playing C&C: Generals without tanks with 10 units on the screen at once, sad. It really disappoints the legacy of the previous games where you could acctually see the entire battlefield, not the two trees that cover the entire screen. The units looked just like they were dragged there from Empire Earth and nothing had evolved from that point forward. WOW, i can also zoom in to the soldiers and have a totally useless camera angle which has no other advantages other than that you can see the angly faces of every soldier and "animal" there. The movement is funky too - somewhere around runescape, which is pooooor. Shooting indians with an army with rifles for about 10 pounds of gunpowder per naked indian isn't too fun either. Reminds me the battles form Red Alert where a tank would shoot an infantryman for about 30 seconds to kill it with half a dozen straight explosive hits.
I saw no relevance to the AOE series other than the Age of Empires III sign in the game menu bar

Well, i hope the real game will have some improvements.

Originally posted by vulkan02 i thought it was in november...

Dammit!!!! I think your right. It was supposed to had come out in the middle of 2005. I guess they're fixing bugs, and/or adding new stuff.

yuck no, the english rule!!!!!!!!!!! The crappy food makes them tougher.