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Age of Empire 3 Previews

by Maarten Goldstein, Sep 07, 2005 5:23am PDT

Game Over, GameCloud and Game Revolution all have Age of Empires 3 previews, offering their impressions of the game's preview build.


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    By: PenicillinX57 x
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    Sadly, I get less excited about this game for each preview I read. It honestly sounds like this is just Age of Empires II all over again with new graphics. At first they claimed that the Havoc physics were going to change everything, but then they announced that they couldn't get it working very well, so the physics are basically just eye candy. (ie when a large tower falls over, it doesn't crush stuff it falls on, it just "looks cool") Whoop-dee-doo!

    Also, the last line of the GameOver preview is pretty disheartening:

    The preview build we received contained part of the single player campaign, and it also included skirmish mode. I played the available part of the campaign (which deals with a mystical sect and the Fountain of Youth) and a few skirmish games, and Age of Empires III looks like it’s going to be another solid release. My only worry, and perhaps Ensemble’s as well, is that the engine and the time period are a little familiar, and so the game might be missing the “it” factor to make more than just a pleasant gaming experience. But Ensemble Studios still has lots of time to work on the game (so far as I know, nobody from Ensemble or Microsoft has announced a release date, although Christmas is a safe bet), and their track record indicates that they’ll figure something out.

    Ah, hello guys, it comes out in a month! There aren't going to be any drastic changes.
    Sep 07, 2005 9:58am PDT