GunshotSilence
Journeyman
but ihave 256 mb ram
64mb vram and winxp
just p3 933 mghz
so still it wont run?
64mb vram and winxp
just p3 933 mghz
so still it wont run?
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GunshotSilence
Journeyman
it ran!!!! it ran!!!!
yeah it was a l'l slow and had to close all running services and stuff.
played both skirmish and 2 campaigns
rail road and mexico defense
shud i post my reviews here?? or a new thread?
yeah it was a l'l slow and had to close all running services and stuff.
played both skirmish and 2 campaigns
rail road and mexico defense
shud i post my reviews here?? or a new thread?
GunshotSilence
Journeyman
well heres my review
i had left playing aoe2 age of kings casue it wudnt run due to corrupt installation pirated cd and also i was young back then-in 11th and didnt know anything about strategy or shortcut keys. and was defeated very badly on msn gamig zon by a army of 20 elephants by my opponent .so switched to RON as son as i got my grpahic card.fter hating AOM. and found RON to be the best. interms of graphics and shortcut keys. and needed a good reason like age3 to comback to aoe series.
now over to the aoe3 demo-
the game started after much speculation from my side.
and advice from digitforum friends that it wont run.
installation was slow. and so was the loading.but in game loading of the actual scenarios, was quite fast.
its showed the window that my proccy was very slow as compared to what was actually needed(1.4ghz) but still i chose to run it(cause i had spent 4hs and 380 mbs on it-so i wasnt gonna leave it without a try)
but my decision to go ahead with the download paid off.
so it started finnaly. and lo! my jaws dropped to the ground on seeing my home city. superb.
i straight went to the options and set reso to 800*600 and all options low.
and then started the skirmish game(new england) on sandbox mode.
but quit cause i didnt understand what to od.
my mouse cursor was sluggish and moving very slow or very fast and jumping and missing everything on the mini map. had to drag it really slow and use keyboard arrow keys for navigating on minimap.
graphics: maybe b'cause i was playing on all lowest settings so i didnt find anything mindblowing like all the pics i saw before.
graphics felt like age ofmythology just a li'l better.
ships looked the coolest. but buildings and peple were like aom.
but aoe2 grphics were very good especially the pikemen or soldiers.
and rise of nations grpahics wer too cool
rating ***
sound: music and sounds r superb. especially the games starting and ingame music with all orchestras and instruments. i have a diff playlist of these tunes on itunes which i listen to regularly.
as not much variety of souns/music in RON
i loved battlemusic (from ageofempires3.com)
rating *****
concept:the concept of home city and getting supplies was cool. ans so was of railroads-highilighting the concept of imperialism where home city was like london and colonies like india or america. and the people moviing about and building being show while selcting cards.
so the objectives were well defined and no simply attacking but micromanagment was needed for a good army to defend allrail roads. it took me 3 tries to complete the campaign missions- rail roads. completed on third try. railroad gave supplies so were good.
terrian was cool and so was the concept of hidden treasure.
it was a good thing that the hero didnt die. but defeating a group of treasure gaurds single handedly was tough unless i use some army force
and good there was no starting in the dark ages with stone weapns. but directly guns.
rating:****
gameplay:
infantry was useless unless acompanied by atleast10 horsemen or 5 cannons. it wasnt defined as who is strong or weak against whom? as in RON. making selection tough without knowing their strike power in the beginning.
lack of shortcut keys(espicially after being an avid fan of RON)
i cud manage to find shortcut keys for building,idle people, finding my hero/explorer and some of my minutemen.
but the lck of keys for selecting buildings and single button for all researches (like tab key in RON), depleting forests and silver,etc. was very frustrating.
i hope before the final game is launched, thses probs n the gamplay are rectified.
rating:**
overall the game was good but waiting to see the full game.
i had left playing aoe2 age of kings casue it wudnt run due to corrupt installation pirated cd and also i was young back then-in 11th and didnt know anything about strategy or shortcut keys. and was defeated very badly on msn gamig zon by a army of 20 elephants by my opponent .so switched to RON as son as i got my grpahic card.fter hating AOM. and found RON to be the best. interms of graphics and shortcut keys. and needed a good reason like age3 to comback to aoe series.
now over to the aoe3 demo-
the game started after much speculation from my side.
and advice from digitforum friends that it wont run.
installation was slow. and so was the loading.but in game loading of the actual scenarios, was quite fast.
its showed the window that my proccy was very slow as compared to what was actually needed(1.4ghz) but still i chose to run it(cause i had spent 4hs and 380 mbs on it-so i wasnt gonna leave it without a try)
but my decision to go ahead with the download paid off.
so it started finnaly. and lo! my jaws dropped to the ground on seeing my home city. superb.
i straight went to the options and set reso to 800*600 and all options low.
and then started the skirmish game(new england) on sandbox mode.
but quit cause i didnt understand what to od.
my mouse cursor was sluggish and moving very slow or very fast and jumping and missing everything on the mini map. had to drag it really slow and use keyboard arrow keys for navigating on minimap.
graphics: maybe b'cause i was playing on all lowest settings so i didnt find anything mindblowing like all the pics i saw before.
graphics felt like age ofmythology just a li'l better.
ships looked the coolest. but buildings and peple were like aom.
but aoe2 grphics were very good especially the pikemen or soldiers.
and rise of nations grpahics wer too cool
rating ***
sound: music and sounds r superb. especially the games starting and ingame music with all orchestras and instruments. i have a diff playlist of these tunes on itunes which i listen to regularly.
as not much variety of souns/music in RON
i loved battlemusic (from ageofempires3.com)
rating *****
concept:the concept of home city and getting supplies was cool. ans so was of railroads-highilighting the concept of imperialism where home city was like london and colonies like india or america. and the people moviing about and building being show while selcting cards.
so the objectives were well defined and no simply attacking but micromanagment was needed for a good army to defend allrail roads. it took me 3 tries to complete the campaign missions- rail roads. completed on third try. railroad gave supplies so were good.
terrian was cool and so was the concept of hidden treasure.
it was a good thing that the hero didnt die. but defeating a group of treasure gaurds single handedly was tough unless i use some army force
and good there was no starting in the dark ages with stone weapns. but directly guns.
rating:****
gameplay:
infantry was useless unless acompanied by atleast10 horsemen or 5 cannons. it wasnt defined as who is strong or weak against whom? as in RON. making selection tough without knowing their strike power in the beginning.
lack of shortcut keys(espicially after being an avid fan of RON)
i cud manage to find shortcut keys for building,idle people, finding my hero/explorer and some of my minutemen.
but the lck of keys for selecting buildings and single button for all researches (like tab key in RON), depleting forests and silver,etc. was very frustrating.
i hope before the final game is launched, thses probs n the gamplay are rectified.
rating:**
overall the game was good but waiting to see the full game.
Congrats
Well, congratulations that ur efforts paid out. May be it was because of the presence of graphics card that did the trick. Hopefully u liked the demo.
Personally I like AOE 2 and RON more than this one. I just hope they don't mess up with RON legends as they did with AOE 3. I'm eagerly awaiting for its release. Till then RON and AOE 2 rock.
Well, congratulations that ur efforts paid out. May be it was because of the presence of graphics card that did the trick. Hopefully u liked the demo.
Personally I like AOE 2 and RON more than this one. I just hope they don't mess up with RON legends as they did with AOE 3. I'm eagerly awaiting for its release. Till then RON and AOE 2 rock.
bala4digit
Journeyman
release date is 10/25/2005
GunshotSilence
Journeyman
who said i liked it?
i liked the concept, and music. but lack of shortcut keys was frustrating.
i loved ron and so left playing aoe2 all together.
my neighbour works in AMDOCS (in our magarpatta city, pune)
he used to hav lan parties when he was in the US b4 marraige. and maan u shud see him play. aoe2 and exp. cooool.
but he attactks with mostly swordsman and trebuchets and horses later.
i gues he cant do it in aoe3 cause
u know what even a small army on ron was so good that if i left it to defnd a captured city and looked else where, it wud do great job.
and if u clicked on the enemy unit-it told u what was it good against and how to counter it.
in aoe3 the infantry is soo weak, that a couple of cannons blast them. and they r useless without horses or cannons
and as for with ron legends, they r really messing up the game. see for ur self.
*www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/riseofnationsriseoflegends/screenindex.html
*www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/riseofnationsriseoflegends/previews.html
all ficional characters and nations. ron was reality. allowing to play all human histroy in under 2 hrs
i liked the concept, and music. but lack of shortcut keys was frustrating.
i loved ron and so left playing aoe2 all together.
my neighbour works in AMDOCS (in our magarpatta city, pune)
he used to hav lan parties when he was in the US b4 marraige. and maan u shud see him play. aoe2 and exp. cooool.
but he attactks with mostly swordsman and trebuchets and horses later.
i gues he cant do it in aoe3 cause
u know what even a small army on ron was so good that if i left it to defnd a captured city and looked else where, it wud do great job.
and if u clicked on the enemy unit-it told u what was it good against and how to counter it.
in aoe3 the infantry is soo weak, that a couple of cannons blast them. and they r useless without horses or cannons
and as for with ron legends, they r really messing up the game. see for ur self.
*www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/riseofnationsriseoflegends/screenindex.html
*www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/riseofnationsriseoflegends/previews.html
all ficional characters and nations. ron was reality. allowing to play all human histroy in under 2 hrs
GunshotSilence
Journeyman
see some news and what others hafta say
*www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchnews.asp?newsid=148048
*www.firingsquad.com/games/age_of_empires_iii_preview/page1.asp
*www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchnews.asp?newsid=148048
*www.firingsquad.com/games/age_of_empires_iii_preview/page1.asp
deathvirus_me
Wise Old Owl
Why the hell do you think that they messed up AoE 3 ??? personally i find it great ... graphically its very soothing .....
AOE 3 messed up
That's why they messed it up.
Well, I don't give that much importance to graphics. Gameplay and realism are must. AOE 3 takes a lot out of micromanagement which AOE 2 fans loved about it. eg now citizens don't drop resources at mill but it is automatically collected. The music isn't great either. Microsoft has been working on this title for quite some time now. Wonder why they didn't notice reasons for AOE 2 success.deathvirus_me said:
That's why they messed it up.
Well I dont get it. So what if the villagers dont drop resources in the towns ? It only means that the game play has greater things to focus on. One thing which I noticed is that the AI is much more aggressive even on easy settings. Which leaves you to focus on the combat and strategies. Which is a main reason for a win in RON. RON focuses so much on combat that micro management takes a back stage. The days of amassing a big resource and then big army is gone. You need to balance your attack/defense strategies. This is the way going forward with most RTS games.
GunshotSilence
Journeyman
i personally think ron is the best.
it has both micromanagmnt and combat.
u gott build cities and a set no of buildings for each like university, library(as backup in case of nuke attack on capital), mines, smelters, wonders, and also defense buildings like AA,towers,forts, barracks, stable and seige factory. so there is plenty of micromanagment. and plus u hafta conquer cities and hold them and manage ur big AF and navy too. or else they wont be siitng duck but siiting idle doing nothing. unles attacked first.
micromanagemt for economies is to send scout scouting , merchants and caravans, and tap all resources b4 the prices of researches and army goes up.
and it has cool grpahics(especially nuking ones) and realistic game play to play all human history in under 30 mins. i defeated the opponent with bantu tribe in 20 mins at moderate in deathmatch.
it has both micromanagmnt and combat.
u gott build cities and a set no of buildings for each like university, library(as backup in case of nuke attack on capital), mines, smelters, wonders, and also defense buildings like AA,towers,forts, barracks, stable and seige factory. so there is plenty of micromanagment. and plus u hafta conquer cities and hold them and manage ur big AF and navy too. or else they wont be siitng duck but siiting idle doing nothing. unles attacked first.
micromanagemt for economies is to send scout scouting , merchants and caravans, and tap all resources b4 the prices of researches and army goes up.
and it has cool grpahics(especially nuking ones) and realistic game play to play all human history in under 30 mins. i defeated the opponent with bantu tribe in 20 mins at moderate in deathmatch.
GunshotSilence
Journeyman
age of empires3 runs on intel 810e chipset
hey guys, just to test i disabled my graphics card and re-enabled my 810e onboard chipset and connected my monitor to the onboard chipset. and restarted the system.
i ran age of empires 3 on my old 810e chipset with 256mb ram and p3 933 mghz and guess what?
IT RAN. YES IT RAN. BUT THE GRPAHICS WERE POOR. could see units but not muhc of explored land.
defeated the damn spanish.
so u see the games min req is still low. but if u want to the see the mind blowing graphics u need, a fast pc and grpahics card. but u can play it on a p3 too. with onboard graphics.
hey guys, just to test i disabled my graphics card and re-enabled my 810e onboard chipset and connected my monitor to the onboard chipset. and restarted the system.
i ran age of empires 3 on my old 810e chipset with 256mb ram and p3 933 mghz and guess what?
IT RAN. YES IT RAN. BUT THE GRPAHICS WERE POOR. could see units but not muhc of explored land.
defeated the damn spanish.
so u see the games min req is still low. but if u want to the see the mind blowing graphics u need, a fast pc and grpahics card. but u can play it on a p3 too. with onboard graphics.
prathap_lab
Journeyman
hi,
AOE 3 demo has been released. it is 365MB. it is available at:
*www.ageofempires3.com/
i played, it is very nice. in campaign it has 2 levels and in skirmish it has 2 maps. only 2 civilizations are available in demo version(spanish & british). you can even check the release date in "AOE press" link on the website mentioned above.
its sys. req. are high.
try it.
thank you.
AOE 3 demo has been released. it is 365MB. it is available at:
*www.ageofempires3.com/
i played, it is very nice. in campaign it has 2 levels and in skirmish it has 2 maps. only 2 civilizations are available in demo version(spanish & british). you can even check the release date in "AOE press" link on the website mentioned above.
its sys. req. are high.
try it.
thank you.
GunshotSilence
Journeyman
were u born today?
cause the game demo came 3 weeks ago and i got it and played it full 2 weeks ago
and even posted a review here
and u r posting about it now
cause the game demo came 3 weeks ago and i got it and played it full 2 weeks ago
and even posted a review here
and u r posting about it now
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