good for me

Microsoft and Ensemble Studios just released a demo of Age of Empires III. Now, AoE2 is one of the best real time strategy games out there. It features players competing as 13 different civilizations by getting resources, progressing a technological line, raising armies/navies, battling and ultimately, trying to conqueror one’s enemies. Mac-users go here. Well, AoE3 uses a gorgeous, brand new game engine. The game itself seems to be a mix between Aoe2(resources,technology timeline and battle) and Conquest of the New World(‘Home City‘, colonization, more Native American tribes).

I don’t need Steven Johnson to encourage me to play. I just don’t have the time. Now that the art season is in full engagement, time to play is dwindling. Plus there is the issue of the minimum requirement of contemporary games. Nowadays a fancy 3D video card is required. AoE3 will not be an exception. I am not a fan of first-person shooters, but i do want to play Doom3, Half-Life2. Those two games, features awesome game environments, are now the yard stick for hardware requirements. Even The Sims2 is dependent on some decent hardware. The good thing though, is that a good platform to play games is also a good platform to do multimedia works like video and surround sound audio projects. So a computer upgrade is in my future.