Age of Empires III

[Mad Fox]

Saw a good article about this new game in Pc gamer it looks really good anyone else heard anything!

[SoulReaver]

Yeah, check out IGN and Gamespot, interviews are at both sites.

[ME BIGGD01]

i still play the old ones:thumbs: . this will definetly be a picked up game.

[PJ'l_Master]

i play the old ones also...good classic game...like the original C&C's you can just keep goin back to them when all the new ones get boring

[Mad Fox]

Age of Empires III is scheduled to come out in the second half of 2005.. ill be sure to pick it up

[ME BIGGD01]

"The Age of Empires III engine is a fully DX9, Shader 3.0 compliant engine with more technical bells and whistles than any other PC game to date. As you can see from the screenshots, we have a world that feels bright and sunny, but with a softness and depth that hasn't been seen before. From things like self-shadowing to HDR (high dynamic range) lighting to water that has proper Fresnel reflectance properties, this is a very high-end graphics engine. We've also integrated physics into the game in a big way. When units are blown up by cannon fire, we use ragdolls to bounce them around the world, off of rooftops, and down cliffs. As buildings take artillery damage, pieces of the building realistically break off and fall down with proper collision modeling. When you throw in hundreds of integrated animations per unit, the overall effect is quite impressive"

your systems better be pretty hardcore it seems:thumbs:

[Mr Clean]

AoE is a cool game, can't wait to see more about this.....

[ME BIGGD01]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20801

:thumbs: