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03-19-2005, 05:34 PM
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Age of Empires III is expected to be released around November of 2005.
System Requirements: (will expand on this more through time) Age 3 will support fixed-function cards, all the way up to the newer shader model 3.0 cards. Obviously, the better your machine, the nicer your game will look. We expect that the game has enough high-end graphical features that most folks won't be able to crank it all the way up right away. The hardware still has a bit of catching up to do. Map type: Age 3 is probably going to have round maps, preventing people that want to hide in corners. (from what we've seen from the screens.. not 100% certain). GUI Screens (A GUI is never impressive) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...l/AoE3_Gui.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../AoE3_Gui2.jpg What will the resources be? AoE III will have only 3 resources (unlike the 4 resources featured in the previous games from the series). In AoE III, the player no longer will have drop-off points, so every time a villager collects food, it will instantly go to your stockpile, instead of the villager having to carry it over to the Granary or Mill first. These are the known resources featured in Age of Empires III: • Food • Wood • Coin Destruction of Buildings: The team at Ensemble Studios were sick of RTS games where you poked a building with a sword until little sprite flames appeared, then grew bigger until the building was replaced by rubble. They had used this trick themselves, as had countless other games, but Age of Empires III deserved more. Ensemble Studios licensed the Havok physics engine. The art team cut each building up into logical pieces of debris. Then, when a structure gets slammed by a cannonball, chunks of it part way (leaving ruined holes and broken slats underneath) and fly through the air. No two explosions are the same. If you hit a town hall, the steeple might pop up and crumple to the ground, or it might go whirling off and down the street, depending on how the cannonball hit it. Realtime Environment: Water can be rough and choppy or smooth and glassy depending on how the map artists want to render it. Dynamic reflections ripple on smooth water surfaces, a touch that really adds to the overall look. http://media.gamespy.com/columns/ima...0114758775.jpg (The game calculates the water current and creates ripples and rapids accordingly. Special geometry and textures give the river banks that extra touch of detail.) Rivers in the game flow in the proper direction, with clever little details like little pieces of flotsam that drift with the current. Small rocks might also jut out in the middle of a waterway, with current visibly rippling around them. And there is more.. Effects like smoke are also rendered with subtlety and realism using a particle system. There's even invisible 'wind' on every map that blows everything consistently. Curling white trails of smoke from cannons, campfires, or chimneys twists in the wind. Particles go flying whenever there's an explosion: cannonballs will plow into the ground, kicking up dirt. Or debris will fly into the water, creating great big splashes. Age III programmers were able to create a lot of nice subtle effects with this particle system. What Civilizations will Age 3 have? AoE III will feature 8 different civilizations, up to now we know of: • France • Spain • Britain Speculation on other nations: Holland Portugal Sweden Denmark Germany Multiplayer: It seems that our friends at Ensemble Studios are coding a brand new online system, ESO2. The new version of ESO, called ESO2 of all things, was both a functional and philosophical redo. ESO2 is built upon a much better foundation, but, more importantly, we (Ensemble Studios) refocused the direction of the design. After looking at AOM, we realized that we focused ESO1 too much on the casual, never-been-online gamer. Age3's multiplayer experience is focused more around what the online community wants. We do have several very large innovations/extensions for the multiplayer gamer, but we're not quite ready to roll those out yet. Civilization buildings: • Houses: > Hispanic http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...house_hisp.jpg > European http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ouse_euro1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...use2_euro1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ouse_euro2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...use2_euro2.jpg • Windmill and Farms > Hispanic http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../wind_hisp.jpg > European http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...wind_euro1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ill2_euro2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...wind_euro2.jpg • The Church > Hispanic http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...hurch_hisp.jpg > European http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rch2_euro1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rch2_euro2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...urch_euro1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rch3_euro2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...urch_euro2.jpg • Barracks > European http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...acks_euro1.jpg 'http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...cks2_euro2.jpg • Stables: (referable pics continue) > European http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...bles_euro2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...bles_euro2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...les2_euro2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...les2_euro2.jpg • Docks: > Hispanic http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../dock_hisp.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../dock_hisp.jpg > European http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...dock_euro2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...dock_euro2.jpg • Tower: > European http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ower_euro2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ower_euro2.jpg • Palisade and Outpost: > European http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...sade_euro1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...sade_euro1.jpg • Mining Camp: > European http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rage_euro1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rage_euro1.jpg Notes: -Flags of Russia and Germany have been seen on Euro2 buildings. It's not very clear if those are really the country flags. -Buildings are going to change extremely from age to age. Late houses are some 3 times bigger than early houses. -Changes made to buildings since AoK seem to be very small. RARE Screen Shots of Age 3: http://aoe3.heavengames.com/gallery/aoe3-earlyshots' target='_blank'>http://aoe3.heavengames.com/gallery/aoe3-earlyshots ------------------------------------------- All of this information is gathered from multiple links: (Special thanks to Shusky) http://aoe3.heavengames.com http://www.shacknews.com http://www.gamespot.com http://www.gamespy.com |
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03-19-2005, 05:37 PM
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* niiiiiiiiiiceeee dude gj with the screens
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03-19-2005, 06:24 PM
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cant wait for this to come out
looks good i have a feeling most comps wont be able to handle it so it wont get up and running with a lot of players that soon that had to take forever finding all that so gj
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03-19-2005, 09:09 PM
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impressive i have been wanting to see these shots for awhile
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03-20-2005, 12:54 AM
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wow looks good really good hm i just wonder if my comp could handle it lol with my nooby 2mb video card and my 128mb of ram lol
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03-20-2005, 01:48 AM
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03-20-2005, 02:01 AM
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thats tight..but yea..dont no if my comp will be able to handle it ;(
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03-20-2005, 04:28 AM
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THat looks great and i will DEFINATELY be buying it.
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03-20-2005, 04:42 AM
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* * you niall you * critacize everyone you * * why the * cant you just say gj or some * like that?
i might be a little drunk so dont get mad
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03-20-2005, 05:06 AM
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The detail in those screen shots like how much there is to see is amazing compared to the other games..When this comes out i am definatly buying it in the day it does.
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03-20-2005, 05:10 AM
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same..and if its free and easy to play online, without a doubt i say there will be tons of ppl playing it online..prolly more than aok and aoc combined right now
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03-20-2005, 09:46 AM
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lol solo cool it!!
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03-20-2005, 02:13 PM
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Ownz1 i like to beleive same thing as u but i dont think many people will have the requirements for there pc to run it...I hope this game is hosted on zone.com...that way be easy to access just have to download the lobby crap for it
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03-20-2005, 03:24 PM
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03-20-2005, 05:20 PM
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srry guys i was * last night
and it wont get up to quickly b/c most will have to upgrade comps to be able to play it
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03-20-2005, 07:59 PM
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lol so am i czech
 game gonna rock
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03-24-2005, 12:53 AM
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do u no if the online will be free?
and will the multiplayer be hard is what im wondering... everything on the screens u posted looks so close together and a hell of alot more realistic than any of the aoe games... will custom scenarios be on ESO2? if so are the maps going to be difficult to make? |
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03-24-2005, 01:08 AM
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prob willbe just like making them now just a new formatt
why would the multiplayer be hard? prob online will be free
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03-24-2005, 02:32 AM
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not harder just looks like it would be a lot better and funer to play
xcept i would look at the building in aww of such detail and get killednstead of fighting
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03-24-2005, 01:19 PM
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I think multiplayer being hard wuld decide on how good the person you are playing...Im sure it will be free to play online...but i dont think there will be custom scenarios jsut dm rm n stuff...cs would proly take up alot of space on ur comp. But you will be able to make ur own maps n stuff.
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05-16-2005, 03:30 AM
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Cant wait till fall .... Im buying it as soon as it comes out .... the day it comes out to be exact .... lol ... this is exciting!!!!
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05-20-2005, 01:21 AM
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Alright I've been checking sites that are covering E3 and I found some good news. Like AoEIII's Release date which much sooner then I had heard.
Age of Empires III Release Date: 08/15/2005 So get ready it's coming this August!!!!!  I'll add more info once I find it. |
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10-01-2005, 12:10 PM
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are you trunkez the guy who apprently died in a car accident or something?
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10-01-2005, 02:39 PM
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any1 know what the release date is, in the UK?
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10-01-2005, 03:10 PM
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I don't see why it wouldn't be released in the UK at the same time as US. If it's not..you can always have the US version shipped to you.
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