Rise of Legends Demo

For playing it on a 1 1/2 year old widescreen laptop, I had pretty decent performance (probably assisted by the resolution being lower than it could/should have been). Still, the game ran pretty smoothly and it was pretty damned fun. I didn't have an abnormally long load time, but my metric for a "long load time" is HL2. I also had the "demo minimum" of 512mb RAM.

I'll be picking this up on release. :D

Too choppy to enjoy on an AMD64 3700, 2GB RAM, GeForce 6800GT. Also, the widescreen (16:10) resolutions actually let you view LESS than the normal (4:3) ones. Lame. :(

I was a big fan of Rise of Nations, but I hate low framerates. I'm glad that the performance will apparently get improved in the retail version though. I'll check this game out later...

wow that was pretty terrible. Looks bad, runs worse....not into it at all.

I just downloaded it and played for a couple of hours and, I gotta say, I don't see any of the negative aspects a lot of you guys do. This game is great--and it's a predemo! It looks great (I was running at max settings), plays great (lots of options, units, etc.), and runs just fine on my system. Maybe the critics need better systems, I don't know, but my experience was totally different than the negative posters in here.

All you haters just don't have good enough systems to run this beast. This is one hell of a good strategy game. Totally fresh concepts. Amazing animations and graphics. VERY good demo.

My only complaint is the lack of a beginner's tutorial to introduce some of the new elements. But since I'm a seasoned RTS gamer, didn't bother me too much. What's in this demo is pure magic. Crazy new creature type stuff never seen in a strategy game. Voices are great too.

Rise of Legends Demo Impressions!

In reply. TL;DR: The game has a whole ton of potential, but currently it still needs a lot of work.

Wow....

i'm not sure where to start, I loved and played the hell out of RoN. Dawn of War and RoN were the 2 best strategy games in years, since the Warcraft/starcraft/ta days.

This game is probally going to be just as great as RoN, but there are some problems.

The game was fast, no slow downs, loading was ridiculously long (computers get faster and faster but loading times get longer, wtf mate?). I was just playing my first game, about an hour into it dominating the enemy my computer locks up, blank screen, I had to turn it off and it wouldn't turn on until I unplugged it for awhile. Thats never happend to me before, over heating?

Theres an imaginary line in my head, Games with too little units/tech/building and games with too much of it are both bad. RoL goes beyond the latter, pisses on it, beats it to death, walks away, beats it some more and spooges all over it and beats it to death again. I can't even comprehend how many upgrades, units, buldings there are... for all sides. I think this is way overboard. Too much tech, upgrades, "unit abilitys", buildings, units, etc.

I see the obvious RoN influence but this game is very very different. I'll probally be buying it.

best demo ever, imo. didnt care about the game before, but now its at the top of my list.

In the future, flags fly any damn way they want to.

All I constantly see is bitching and moaning about how much a game sucks this and that.. oohhh boo hoo. Do you actually take the time out to PLAY the game and see what it's about?

Sorry. Excellent stuff here. DL and check it out.

Are you FRIGGING KIDDING ME?!?! Either this is the coolest RTS I've ever played, or someone slipped a some acid into my green tea at work.

I didn't get far in the campaign, it was kinda lame off the start, but I played two quick games and I'm blown away. The graphics are IN-FUCKING-CREDIBLE! Granted, I have a high-end system, and it still chugs *cough*, but the art direction and the detail on buildings is just mind blowing.

OK, there is like a million things you can research for buildings, techs and units, and a lot of them are just super cool, not just "+10% hitpoints", although there is a lot of that too. Like a research lab building that you can upgrade to like 8 other awesome buildings. A telescope? A doom cannon? Build a fort, creat a jauggernaut (a badass tank that makes DoW tanks look like toys) and RUN OVER DUDES WHILE SHELLING OTHER DUDES.

Whatever, I didn't even like RoN all that much and didn't think it was deep, I can't believe this demo isn't getting better reactions. That was $.02 from a super jaded gamer who was just impressed...

Wish it woulda said in the description or somewhere that it's XP only. :\

Depression! :(

Not impressed, rather disappointed

Ignoring that this build looks like it shouldn't have been released as a demo period, the gameplay is just... not exciting.

*returns to waiting for a GOOD Kohan clone*

So tired of generic rts schlock. Build units. Throw them at each other. Ooh, this type is better against that type. Ooh, they have a special ability each. Look, heroes!

Hey yeah sorry, I just joined today to reply because I saw that I was getting multiple hit to my blog from this address :p I didn't mean to sound like I was all praise :p

I loved AoE3 but the predemo (I don't mean the second release) didn't do it much justice, in fact I know a lot of players that didn't want to buy AoE3 because of the first predemo.

If you read through my blog you will find I don't always talk up games :D

Thanks and sorry I came off as some poser or w/e
TGE

They keep on rising!

so is this like TA to TA:kingdoms? *ducks*

Hi there,

I just wanted to drop in and say a few words :D

The game's performance will be TONs better, this is of course a demo from beta code (as it's coming out nearly 2 months before the game ships). I don't see how anyone can say the game looks bad unless they have low spec machines or haven't played it... the game looks awesome...

IMO the demo for being off of an old build is still miles ahead of most prerelease demos that hit the web... I've played many including BFME2's predemo, EE2's predemo, and AoE3's predemo... RoL's is by far the best playing of them all... though I agree it's a performance hog in this state.

It's only to give a small taste of the game, wait til you see retail... you'll be in heaven, it is IMHO the best RTS of 06, having played most of the RTSs scheduled for release RoL is tops. Only Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War looks as good as RoL but is a completely different subgenre and playstyle.

Thanks!
-TGE

Please let this not suck.

I can't really get into a decent amount of detail at the moment, but for those of you who were big Rise of Nations fans: I don't think going into the game with expectations of that is the best idea. This is a very different kind of game, and although it certainly echoes RoN in a lot of ways, Rise of Legends seems like a far more "simple" RTS.

I can't even install the game. Issues with the installer runtime half the time and the other half its says there isn't enough space. 50 gigs free on my destination drive.

Blah, slow slow load times. Everything feels sluggish. Not fun. Don't really care how good the game is at this point.

It's still a beta demo and quite buggy but it is promising. The game seems pretty damn complex which is a good thing. There are dozens of stuff to do: research, upgrading your city, constructing buildings and capturing neutral towns. The clicking doesn't stop there because you have all those power to use, heroes to control, prototypes to build etc.

I thought I had done it all when I clicked my research building building and got another dozen different options. You can turn your facility into a bunker, a super cannon, a mine, statue, factory + couple other choices. You really get overwhelmed quite easily because you really don't know what should you do in different parts of the game but I guess it's something you just have to learn.

Someone please tell me how this game is. I'm at work.

The only thing i don't like about it so far is that i am still downloading it! I like how the games storyline sounds so far...*sigh* still downloading...

How is this game? Is there a lot of hype - I am loving star wars empires at war right now - but it is a weak game with little replay value (although blowing up planets with the death star is a riot)...

I just don't feel like any RTS games recently have been great...there have been a few good ones, and this one looks stunning - should I be excited about this one?

Downloading now. Very excited. Just to check, there isn't StarForce, right?

Sigh, crashes before I can get to a menu.

Time to quit oblivion for an hour or so.

Downloading this now! This screen shot http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/riseoflegends/Rise+of+Legends/1/thumbs/1600_screen1.jpg looks so cool. I have never seen such mad scenery in an RTS.

hooray for mercury!

Maarten your demo link is to the shacknews front page... where the demo link is displayed under latest @ fileshack. You crafty devil.