Age of Empires 3 Demo is OUT!


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Saying dark reign did better is an overstatement.

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I didn't mean that Dark Reign 2 was better graphically... what I meant is that it did better at 3D five years ago than AoE3 did today with all the hardware advancements.

The main problems I have are that the interface doesn't scale and is ridiculously huge... and that scrolling around the map isn't smooth. But the menu system is poor, those tool boxes popup all over the options screen making it hard to see things, the town centre view is horrible, etc. On the plus side the loading times are incredibly short.

Anyone noticed how to rotate the camera? There is an option to do it but I don't see it having any affects.

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I enabled that option as well and couldn't figure out how to rotate the camera. :unsure:

Ok, decided to download anyway :p  (i have the geoforce2 440mx 32mb)  Got a warning about lacking system requirements when i started it up, but continued anyway and i was shocked at how well it did actually run.  The scrolling was a little sticky (i decided to full on everything i could in graphics options :D ) but it still ran.  Didn't keep it on for long, so no idea how it would run once the map had expanded more and more objects/people were onscreen.  Tested it again with lower graphics options (but not too low to make it "2d"ised ) and it ran pretty well then too (less stickiness in the scrolling and it didn't lag as the map grew.)  Good stuff.

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Oh sweet, downloading now. Better work on my GeFore 2 MX 400 64MB ;)

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It probably will :p

man... this game looks like a toddler designed it! C'mon. I was looking forward to this, and thought that it would at least have a decent interface, but the food/gold all those icons look like they are blown up 2 pixel crayon drawings, and the images and huge bar at the bottom look ridiculous and low quality. The graphics when I first started up the game at the menu screen scared the crap out of me! It looked like a picture out of a colouring book with low quality textures and flat buildings... the water DOES look good though, but the trees look like crap! And the units and buildings don't always look great either. AOE 2 still seems nicer in terms of solid graphics and playability. This is a joke... even at 1680x1050 everything is HUGE and the bar is HALF THE SCREEN! I can't play with this kind of garbage... and I still consider AOE 2 one of the best games of all time, but this is just...

It doesn't even scroll smooth, and the graphics are blocky, especially the units and the animals... PLEASE GET THIS STUFF FIXED OR LOSE THE FRANCHISE FOREVER! This is worse of a layout and demo showing than AoM and not nearly as many people fell in love with that game :angry:

Right click on your desktop and go to properties, then click on the settings tab, then click on the advance button, then click on the troubleshoot tab and drag the hardware acceleration slider all the way over to full

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i have the same problem and tried what you said. mine's already at the fullest and still doesn't work.

I am extremly dissapointed with this and dungeon siege 2. both games look and feel like they were made in 1997

Micrsoft games are really becoming  a big dissapointment for me.

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uh that's because the best games go to the xbox :whistle:

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Heres a ss of the menu, click for full size, NOT 56k friendly

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well that looks different than AOC. i thought the specs were low for what they were saying to expect, d/ling now though.

Villagers on roller skates? No, actually it was more like a Segway. I was exploring and came across a native village, and one of them was moving around without moving his legs at all; just gliding. I was looking forward to this game so much, only to find out it's horrible. I think I'm going to cry. :(

Well...I believe all these issues are fixable easily...except for the graphics which people seem to be complaining about...

Heh, remember those beautiful preview screenshots!

Btw, the water in my game ( main menu) looks way too bright...like glowing lava...

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My excitement turned to bitter dissapointment.

The game runs very poorly on my pc. Sure it has a X300SE Video Card, but HL2 works fine on it and AOEIII works like a dog.

I'm cancelling my preorder shortly.

A big fat (N) from me for AOEIII - fizzer.

My excitement turned to bitter dissapointment.

The game runs very poorly on my pc. Sure it has a X300SE Video Card, but HL2 works fine on it and AOEIII works like a dog.

I'm cancelling my preorder shortly.

A big fat (N) from me for AOEIII - fizzer.

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it is a demo, not a full version so bugs are still there.

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