Boy am I silly (about Age of Empires 3)
What a disappointment. After reading the previews, where the developers claimed all kinds of things (from riflemen standing in lines, firing, and ducking so the line behind could shoot to cannonballs wrecking entires lines of guys and to actual fun single player), I was ready for the next Age of Empires/Mythology entry. Boy was I silly. I played the demo, thought it was interesting… I should have caught on after I kept thinking the full game would have more than the demo. It didn’t. It was the same. I shouldn’t have bought it.
Ensemble, here’s some questions:
1) Was the 3D engine worth the small battlefields? ’cause that was a big part of what killed it for me.
2) Was it just too hard, or too imbalancing to have the soldiers fight like they really did back in war of 1812 era? All that talk in the previews of lines of guys, and the same in the screenshots in the mags, but in the actual game, just a mess of bitches firing at each other.
3) Do you not realize that your single player game has sucked for awhile now? The AoM single player was so bad, I literally stopped half way into the first mission? Sure, it’s just the single player and the real reason I bought Age games was for the multiplayer, but still. In case no one has mentioned it, your single player stinks. It’s boring. You ask the engine to do things it can’t and the player to just accept the sillyness of it all. Ugh.
So I traded it away. Maybe Gothic II Gold (Gothic II with the expansion) will be fun enough so I forget you. Maybe.