Age of Empires 3

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:16 am

Now im not normally excited about RTS games.
but this is pretty amazing - I mean this is all real time... crazy

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:18 am

Jesus Christ monkey balls!

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:41 am

you should see the rest of the shots, insane...

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/721/721644/imgs_1.html

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:51 am

Bloody hell those are cool.
I was thinking about buying a new computer, without a fancy graphics card (I rarely play games on the PC). But this rocked my world

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:49 am

dont they all just come with fancy g-cards tho?

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:53 am

Nope

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:53 pm

strange I can build a machine (no monitor) for £500 so fast and powerfull that it can play any game flat out. id only save £100 on the g-card.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:58 pm

Whats strange? I just want a computer so I can use the internet, download stuff, watch movies and play Football Manager. You dont need a g-card for that, so I just customise a computer without a g-card.
£100 is alot of money for me at the moment, as I just bought the apartment I live in, from my dad.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:06 pm

because then u cant play the above

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:09 pm

Dude. Don't mock me!

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:09 pm

mock a mock'aa !!

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:41 pm

err i think that that might be a pre-rendered bit of the game....

this is the game pic i found...

which still looks so much better than the original 2... but not quite as nice as Impy's picy...

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:51 pm

hmm its odd, the pics in my link look like a game, but saying that, they are to sharp...

I dunno, yours is more realistic tho

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:05 pm

hang on, i'm a ****, that screen shot is from age of mythology...

i think you were right actually Impy.... i just found this

you can see that one of the men has been selected as the active unit in this pic...

i'm bowled over, i have to say.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:08 pm

yeah I know that top image looks absurd but if u look u can see all the models have low poly counts on them - its just the texture ress is really high, plus the reflective water is very pretty.

Oh joy im sure id need a new G-card.

Have u seen Unreal engine 3... utter-utter piss take, graphics can be what they want...

http://www.unrealtechnology.com/html/te ... ue30.shtml

before u swear blind that cant be possible Ive seen a guy actually playing a game looking like that.

Supposedly XBOX 2, can achive this level out of the box, and Unreal/Epic games are one of the major publishers for the machine. cant wait...

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:20 pm

woah!!!

i think i need to get a new computer... i don't think my AMD2800/Geforce5600U is gonna like these very much...

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:36 pm

thats pretty insane init?

ah the world of poly bump and and therotical 2 million polygons...

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:08 am

sure is...

especially when you compare it to this...

Post by **snarl** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:32 am

I like doom better.