Age of Empires III Demo

[MGM]

I was never an avid fan of AoE. I love RTS' though (cant get enough of command and conquer and rise of nations). I'll give the demo a try though, if I like it I'll get the full game

Is this only singleplayer or multiplayer as well?

MGM out

[Darkblade]

The game can be played online so yeah, it's a multiplayer.

[tgillespie]

I can't say I'm to impressed. I know its just a demo, but I have a gut feeling I'm going to prefer AOE II over III. Reason being, the grid layout. In both age of empires I and II, the grid was 90 degree angles, and they switched to basically no grid in III which makes building walls and cities unorganized. It feels like Rise of Nations in that you can't build huge kingdoms anymore, just small towns.

The graphics are stunning and they've improved a lot of the visuals and the full version will be the true test, but the demo, isn't all that great.

[Darkblade]

OK I have downloaded the trail vesrion but I get a weird error.

[Wayne Luke]

Do you have DirectX 9.0c installed?

[Darkblade]

Uh no I don't.

[Wayne Luke]

d3d9.dll is a DirectX dll.. Most likely it is needed to play this game.

[Darkblade]

Oh right right. How come I have totally forgotten about the DirectX software. I was forced to install it while I was playing AOE2: The Age of Kings in the old days. And I thought that I've already installed DirectX on my computer after the re-format so... thanks for reminding me about it.

[evssadmin]

Microsoft® Windows® 98/Me/XP/2000
PC with 450 MHz equivalent or higher processor
Sound card, speakers or headphones required for audio
128 MB of system RAM
16 MB video card required
1.5 GB MB available hard disk space
4x speed or faster CD-ROM drive
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
56.6 Kbps or better modem for online play

Got it from: http://ageofempires3.filefront.com/info/Requirements

I found this on http://www.ageofempires3.com site:

MIN System requirement

• WinXP
• 1.4 Ghz Processor
• 256MB Ram
• 64MB Graphic Card w/ HW T&L
• 370mb HDD Space
• DirectX 9C

[Zachery]

It ran a little choppy.. game play was ok, Didn't even have 10 ~ min to get my first game going before I got marched in on by soldiers :/

Played again and prepared differntly, ended up winning after hour or so.

[dreamer81]

It ran a little choppy.. game play was ok, Didn't even have 10 ~ min to get my first game going before I got marched in on by soldiers :/

Played again and prepared differntly, ended up winning after hour or so.

didn't they add a revolutionaire AI in this game??? I think i read that somewhere.

normal RTS, they just launch the same assault over and over again. In AOE3, they will try that a few times, and then chose another strategy if they fail...