Ages of the Empires III Pics

RZetlin · January 3rd, 2005

IGN has an interview with the folks at Ensemble plus pics.

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/arti...0022903217.jpg

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/arti...0022906639.jpg

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/arti...0022910186.jpg

I would like to know what kind of video card will run that.

I don't think my Geforce 2 MX video card will cut it!

Cid Highwind · January 3rd, 2005

This seems to be a LOT better than Settlers 5. Nice screenies

**Razor Blade** · January 3rd, 2005

Sheesh, are they trying to cripple all our computers? Looks like it's time for no AA and low resolutions

Modem1 · January 3rd, 2005

Those are obviously spiced up a big. Seriously doubt the game will look *that* good. If you had to have a computer to run that, they'd lose a lot of money. That's just to make everyone "oooohhhh" and "ahhhhhh" at it. It'll likely look somewhat close to that, but if it had to look like that, you'd need a top of the line machine, and even then, you'd get pretty low frames.
- Modem

stilz · January 3rd, 2005

Those shots look crazy indeed. Now onto gameplay...

Metalmurphy · January 3rd, 2005

:O Very nice. But like stilz said, now onto game play

Im sure Settlers V will beat it in that

RF · January 3rd, 2005

Looks awesome

Any release date? Demo date?

**Raziel** · January 3rd, 2005

Looks good sure, but, that's mostly cause it's full of shaders, the polygon count doesn't seem to be THAT high, I bet a card from the previous generation will be more than enough to run it (may be slow on FXs though, dx9 sucks on it

)

**Typhoon 01** · January 3rd, 2005

It looks very nice but i never was a AOE lover so i'll stick to Starcraft and Red Alert 2.

Cid Highwind · January 3rd, 2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by Metalmurphy

:O Very nice. But like stilz said, now onto game play

Im sure Settlers V will beat it in that

I found S5 gameplay to resemble AOE2's a lot

With the researching and stuff... It was less settlers like and more AOE like then any other game of the Settler series

So when it comes to gameplay, I doubt Settlers 5 will be a lot better

Ali · January 4th, 2005

Such a rendering is pretty possible, hell Halflife 2 has literly given me a surprise. Well these pics are definitly a little optimized (maybe not), but one thing good is that in Pic 3 the Landscape is looking damn realistic. I guess on my Ti4200, few of the details will be taken out, but the game will still look pretty impressive.

D.D. · January 4th, 2005

well...we can always hope that the guys making this game are geniuses and somehow made some incredible algorithm for making this possible (geometry instancing? dunno)

Player-X · January 4th, 2005

almost looks like an aerial photograph

Metalmurphy · January 4th, 2005

Some more pics i found. I had to upload them to imageshack since the website wont work for most of you guys (ip restrictions)

Metalmurphy · January 4th, 2005

and some more

**Razor Blade** · January 4th, 2005

Some of those shots looks better than graphic demo's for GPU's!

Ali · January 4th, 2005

Shadows, Reflections kickass Geometry.
I'd be pissed if the gameplay sucked.

**_E_** · January 4th, 2005

/me wants!

Yours,
-Elly

**fivefeet8** · January 5th, 2005

Looks to be the first game to really utilize SM3. Looks very nice. Although I am loving LOTR: BFME, I'd like to try that game out too.

stilz · January 5th, 2005

The first shot fivefeet8 posted is crazy!

... They look like a bunch of real models made out if either paper/plastic.
What is SM3? Thanks

January 3rd, 2005	#1 (permalink)
RZetlin General of Tangerines Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Defending the Sea Posts: 3,885	Ages of the Empires III Pics IGN has an interview with the folks at Ensemble plus pics. http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/arti...0022903217.jpg http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/arti...0022906639.jpg http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/arti...0022910186.jpg I would like to know what kind of video card will run that. I don't think my Geforce 2 MX video card will cut it! __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3700+ \| 2 GB RAM \| XFX Nvidia 6800 GS 256 MB XXX Edition \| Win XP Pro SP2

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Cid Highwind Ramma Gay Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Somwhere out in space? The Land of the Free? Heaven or Hell? Posts: 11,673	This seems to be a LOT better than Settlers 5. Nice screenies __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel E4400 @ 2.66GHz GPU: ATi HD4870 / 512MB / Core: 775 / Mem: 1025 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR800 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 320GB Western Digital 16MB Caviar SE PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 523.879 Rip: Cid's Bleemcast 28-08-2007 X360/Wii/PS3 belong to the current generation, update your mindset FFS

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January 3rd, 2005	#4 (permalink)
Modem1 Ph33r teh hammy! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Near Seattle, WA Posts: 495	Those are obviously spiced up a big. Seriously doubt the game will look that good. If you had to have a computer to run that, they'd lose a lot of money. That's just to make everyone "oooohhhh" and "ahhhhhh" at it. It'll likely look somewhat close to that, but if it had to look like that, you'd need a top of the line machine, and even then, you'd get pretty low frames. - Modem __________________ Hiya! Windows XP Professional VLE MSI K8N Neo2 Motherboard Athlon 64 3500+ 2GB PC-3200 Dual Channel Ram (2X 1GB) 2X 160GB 7200 RPM HDD's (Raid-0) 2X 200GB 7200 SATA HDD's (Not raided...yet) GeForce 6800GT 256mb ViewSonic 19" LCD Comcast Cable Internet - Local servers downloading at about 850KB/sec. Handy.

January 3rd, 2005	#5 (permalink)
stilz Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ngemu? Posts: 606	Those shots look crazy indeed. Now onto gameplay... __________________ To all emulator authors and contributors: without your hard work, we'd be without many hours of enjoyment and unable to relive fond memories of childhood. Thank you.

January 3rd, 2005	#6 (permalink)
Metalmurphy Ataru Moroboshi Fan =) Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Portugal, Oporto Posts: 5,759	:O Very nice. But like stilz said, now onto game play Im sure Settlers V will beat it in that __________________ -------------------------------- Computer Specs ---------------------------------- Intel Pentium IV Prescott 3.0 HT → 4x 512MB DDR-DIMM → ASUS GF 6800 GT Sound Blaster X-Fi → 2x Maxtor 80 GB (RAID 0) Hitachi 19'' Monitor → Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

January 3rd, 2005	#7 (permalink)
RF Canadian Spaceman Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 8,594	Looks awesome Any release date? Demo date? __________________

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Raziel Beta Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Nantes, France Posts: 6,150	Looks good sure, but, that's mostly cause it's full of shaders, the polygon count doesn't seem to be THAT high, I bet a card from the previous generation will be more than enough to run it (may be slow on FXs though, dx9 sucks on it ) __________________ System Specs: OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Edition CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @4GHz Video Card: MSI GeForce 8800 GTX Motherboard: ASUS Maximus Formula SE RAM: 4GB OCZ XMS2 PC6400 Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

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Typhoon 01 No People, No Problems Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Angola - Luanda Posts: 535	It looks very nice but i never was a AOE lover so i'll stick to Starcraft and Red Alert 2. __________________ ----------------------------------------------------------- Compaq Evo D310v ~ Intel Pentium 4 2.66 GHz ~ 1024 Mb DDR266 e-VGA e-GeForce 6800GS 256 Mb @ 401/1105 ~ BenQ FP 731 17´ LCD Lite-On CD-RW 48x24x48x ~ BenQ DW 1620 HD1 40GB ~ HD2 160GB ----------------------------------------------------------- It's My Life

January 4th, 2005	#11 (permalink)
Ali CoLD InSiDE Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 2,613	Such a rendering is pretty possible, hell Halflife 2 has literly given me a surprise. Well these pics are definitly a little optimized (maybe not), but one thing good is that in Pic 3 the Landscape is looking damn realistic. I guess on my Ti4200, few of the details will be taken out, but the game will still look pretty impressive. __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2100 @ 1.75 Ghz Gigabyte GA-7VA.XP VIA K400 1.25GB PC3200 System Ram ChainTech GeForCe4 TI 4200 128MB Creative SB Live! 5.1 2x WD Caviar 120GBs and -Rom1 Maxtor 40GB LiteON 16x DVD-Rw WindowsXP Professional-SP2 & Mandrake Linux

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D.D. band Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: HERE Posts: 4,574	well...we can always hope that the guys making this game are geniuses and somehow made some incredible algorithm for making this possible (geometry instancing? dunno) __________________ 1. Small, Cheap, Powerful - you can have only two 2. Everytime you engineer something foolproof, the world comes up with a better idiot. 3. 「学問とは虚栄である。」 The PS3 Cell Processor Explained Page, IBM Research's Introduction to Cell Multiprocessor and Cell Processor Programming Guide

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Player-X Banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: From Kuching in Malaysia now stuck in Houston Texas Posts: 9,110	almost looks like an aerial photograph

January 4th, 2005	#14 (permalink)
Metalmurphy Ataru Moroboshi Fan =) Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Portugal, Oporto Posts: 5,759	Some more pics i found. I had to upload them to imageshack since the website wont work for most of you guys (ip restrictions) __________________ -------------------------------- Computer Specs ---------------------------------- Intel Pentium IV Prescott 3.0 HT → 4x 512MB DDR-DIMM → ASUS GF 6800 GT Sound Blaster X-Fi → 2x Maxtor 80 GB (RAID 0) Hitachi 19'' Monitor → Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Metalmurphy Ataru Moroboshi Fan =) Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Portugal, Oporto Posts: 5,759	and some more __________________ -------------------------------- Computer Specs ---------------------------------- Intel Pentium IV Prescott 3.0 HT → 4x 512MB DDR-DIMM → ASUS GF 6800 GT Sound Blaster X-Fi → 2x Maxtor 80 GB (RAID 0) Hitachi 19'' Monitor → Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Razor Blade Locked and Loaded Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I AM CANADIAN! Posts: 12,030	Some of those shots looks better than graphic demo's for GPU's! __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz ● NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS ● 2GB DDR2 RAM Hitachi 120GB HD ● Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive ● Windows Vista Home Premium ● Dell 2007WFP LCD ● Dell XPS M1330 Laptop ● 1TB Western Digital MyBook External HD ● Logitech Z10 Speakers ● PLAYSTATION 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

January 5th, 2005	#19 (permalink)
fivefeet8 &-)---\|--< Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Smallville Posts: 7,582	Looks to be the first game to really utilize SM3. Looks very nice. Although I am loving LOTR: BFME, I'd like to try that game out too. __________________ Play emulated games online Main Rig\|\|Intel Q6600@3.2 ghertz\|4x1gb DDR2 1066\|Asrock 1600sli 110db LGA 775\|EVGA 8800gtx@620/1450/975\|2x Seagate 160gb SATA150 Raid0\|250 gb Samsung SATA2 HD\|Seagate 7000.10 500gb HD\|NEC 3520 4x/8x DVD+R/RW DL burner\|Antec TP 650 watt\|40" Sony Bravia 1080p\|20.1" 5ms LCD 1680x1050 Native\|Logitec 5.1 Speaker System w/15" Sub\|Dual Boot Winows XP Pro/Vista 64bit\|\| 2nd Rig\|\|Athlon64 x2 3800+\|2x1 gig PC3200\|BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC @450/1250 agp\|60 gig Maxtor IDE HD 7200 RPM\|40 gig Maxtor IDE HD\|Asrock Dual SATA2\|Silver Aluminum ATX\|17" LCD\|\| 3rd Rig\|\|Athlon Xp 2800+\|1.5 gig PC2700\|BFG GeforceFx 5900 Ultra OC agp\|100 gig Maxtor SATA HD\|NF7-s rev2.0\|Nvidia Soundstorm MCP\|19" CRT\|\| Last edited by fivefeet8; January 5th, 2005 at 05:13.

January 4th, 2005	#17 (permalink)
Ali CoLD InSiDE Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 2,613	Shadows, Reflections kickass Geometry. I'd be pissed if the gameplay sucked. __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2100 @ 1.75 Ghz Gigabyte GA-7VA.XP VIA K400 1.25GB PC3200 System Ram ChainTech GeForCe4 TI 4200 128MB Creative SB Live! 5.1 2x WD Caviar 120GBs and -Rom1 Maxtor 40GB LiteON 16x DVD-Rw WindowsXP Professional-SP2 & Mandrake Linux

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_E_ Administrator Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: somewhere Posts: 8,623	/me wants! Yours, -Elly __________________ -= Now watching=-

January 5th, 2005	#20 (permalink)
stilz Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ngemu? Posts: 606	The first shot fivefeet8 posted is crazy! ... They look like a bunch of real models made out if either paper/plastic. What is SM3? Thanks __________________ To all emulator authors and contributors: without your hard work, we'd be without many hours of enjoyment and unable to relive fond memories of childhood. Thank you.

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