Viewing Thread:
"Age of Empires 3"

Does anyone have any info on Age of Empires 3? whens it coming out etc.

What I'd like:

No population limits
More sources of food
Good gameplay
Option to kill the French
Blood effects
3D

i'd like to see the ability for your men to gain experience to make them stronger/faster etc. Like, ten kills gets that soilder +2 to his attack and such.

And more upgrades would be nice

I play AOM alot. It is an excellent game and in many ways better than AOE 2. However I'm very positive that the new AOE will be better. And I would like it if you could lock gates again, because you can't in AOM. In AOE I used to make an area surrounded by wall with a few locked gates to store my army. This stopped them running off when I don't want them to, cos that is very annoying.

The onlt trouble with AOM is that it's still very much in the same mould as AOE. I would like see AOE3 to break out of that 'mould' and evole a little. Something like AOE spliced with Medieval:TW was make me very happy!
A 3D AOE with the added satisfaction of HUUUUUGE scale battles.

I think putting a 3D element into the game would ruin the4 franchise, that's why I love AOE so much, like the old saying

"if it aint broken,don't fix it"

I would like to see an increase in the pop limit though :)

mikelar wrote:
> i'd like to see the ability for your men to gain experience to make
> them stronger/faster etc. Like, ten kills gets that soilder +2 to
> his attack and such.

There was a custom map with this feature in AOK, it was alot of fun but I don't think it would be needed in the actualy game. People can always make another custom map.

AOM is a very dissapionting game, i love AOE 2 but mythology just doesn't feel righ.Aom takes much longer to load as well although the story mode is very educational and teaches you alot about the roman empires.

I never got AOM. To me, it looked like a load of tosh. Why? You can't play as the Viking gods, it's overpriced and most of the reviews of it I read were negativo.

Meh, I got it. It is alot of tosh, I started playing it and got about half way through the first campaign and then I just gave up. Maybe I'll go back to it someday...but if AOE3 is any good then I'll forget it :D

All this talk of AOE 3 make me want to get it even more. Stop torturing me! Please!