May 04 2008
Age of Empires III
I’ve been really anxious to get my new Dell PC up and running. I don’t have my network cables yet, so I can’t connect them to the router and do anything with it on the Internet or my LAN, but I did manage to get it setup on a card table in the other room and played AoE III.
And holy cow, does that game look great?! Considering the fact that the new machine is running an nvidia 8800GT, it’s no surprise. Even with anti-aliasing off [default option], it looked good. But turned on and to High, everything looks sweet. The rifle-fire is fun to watch. It was what caught my eye when the game was in development and some videos and screenshots of beta versions of the game were released.
I went through the tutorial, which was a bit shorter than I was hoping. Sure I’ve played all of the other games in the series, but I think the tutorial should offer the player information on each of the buildings available.
Anyway, it was a lot fun to play with for a few hours.