Age Of Empires III

Originally posted by vulkan02  i hope not ... how did Islam get to Indonesia by the way... didn't the ottomans spread it there? This could be an excuse for adding them in the game as a colonizing power.

Any Islamic presence in southeast Asia was caused by Arabic traders.

didn't ottomans had trading outposts in eastern Africa at some point?

Yes,Ottomans used Egypt and nothern Ethipoia/Sudan for commercial works in Africa,they had trade outposts there but the rushes with navy named "Indian Sea Rushes" had been more suitable for the dominance in here.

Awesome demo so far!  I like it a lot!

Oh yes, I liked it.  It only took me 2 hours or so.  Thats with Cable though.

A tutorial would have been useful.

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

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.

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 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.