Age of Empires III: Its number 2 jim, but not as we know it

spudthedestroyer

and by that i mean its not like Age of Empires II, not shit... unless you append hot to the end of course.

Plays just like the second with loads of great improvements over it, should check it out people

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The long awaited demo for Age of Empires III is finally here!

Welcome to the New World of Strategy

It's the dawn of a new age in real-time strategy (RTS) games. A brave New World is rising ? a hostile yet beautiful world, filled with innovative gameplay, new strategic scenarios, eye-searing graphics and much more.

Welcome to a world called Age of Empires III.

New Feature ? Home Cities

Players have access to their own European Home City for economic, technological and military support. Your Home City's success depends on you, with your city's improvements retained between games.

System Requirements:

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

http://downloads.megagames.com/demos/aoe3trial.exe

Someone on the torrent tracker i got it from said it only worked in windowsXP, not that that makes any difference to anyone but penguins or ludites... just don't know if it works in win2k

Jynks · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:31 am **Post subject:**

wat is the torrent link?

Mr.Flibble · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:29 am **Post subject:**

Nice Screens.

Downloading the demo now, Age Of Empires was one of my favourite games.

ThEdEaDLiVe · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:44 pm **Post subject:**

Some of the characters and buildings remind of Settlers: Heritage of Kings. I got Age II so might check this one out also. Good stuff.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:30 pm **Post subject:**

Jynks wrote:

wat is the torrent link?

no point, there's only the demo out and i gave you a http. dispite the technological cliams it doesn't go any faster :matrix:

You can get it at torrent spy or piratebay!

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:31 pm **Post subject:**

you have an uber settler which is nice... although that makes me wonder if you can play a deathmatch on regicide setting?

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:08 pm **Post subject:**

the full games been out a week on torrents, although i think it might be a prerelease jobby as it was released before it even came out in yankee land, and mine has this great bug whereby it wont actually register all tasks complete to get past the treasure ships level

will still get the collectors edition when it comes out in nov (uk)

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:47 pm **Post subject:**

mine's fine, there's known bugs in it, you've probably just got one of those playing up... its already had a 1.01 patch released

Completed it, its a tad easy but the appeal was never single player in any of the age of empire games (infact the storylines are really shit :lol:

)

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:28 pm **Post subject:**

LOL gotta love a game that has a bug fix patch before its even released, dlding the patch now (1.31gig free space for a patch... madness) hopefully itll let me get passed that mission, personally i think the scenarios for aoe3 are pretty good, but yes they were pretty crap in the otehr aoe games, although from playing aoe3 demo and the full game i think i actually prefer the start age in aoe3 rather then the later frontier wild west type age

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:50 pm **Post subject:**

erm, its been out in america since the pirate version was released, the same friday.

I dunno if its out in this country yet, but its not like it will change in anyway since its on the pc. They might release 1.01 instead of 1.0 though if its not out.

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:44 pm **Post subject:**

its not out here til nov 4th and actually the american version was held back a week so the piorated version is im guessing from a version that was despatched a little to early, like play.com have a habit of doing lol

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:51 pm **Post subject:**

its the same version, games are pirated from the GOLD copy 80% of the time, the rest come from retail or preview copies. Very rarely preview copies though.

What your playing is american retail :lol:

Here's the patch, i realised i never posted:
http://megagames.com/news/html/patches/ ... atch.shtml

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:06 pm **Post subject:**

i got the patch anyway, searched google, it let me complete the level but the missing music , sounds and voices and txt skipping problem it claims to solve it hasnt

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:38 pm **Post subject:**

u on nforce4? You might need a driver update if so.

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:29 pm **Post subject:**

ah yes i am on nforce4, how would that make a difference tho?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:04 pm **Post subject:**

because i think that's why your sound is still turning on and off even though its patched

Update the nforce sound drivers.

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:24 pm **Post subject:**

im guessing the latest nforce sounddriver would be this

nForce Audio Driver - Windows XP / 2000

Version: 4.62
Release Date: August 23, 2005
WHQL Certified

Age of Empires III: Its number 2 jim, but not as we know it

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