I've just been browsing round and I've got enough evidence to convince myself that Just look at the facts- Many foreign sites say that AOE3 is upcoming- this will be ES's semi-attempt at hiding the fact that it will be AOE3 and at the same time produce hype The image shows an englishman in the enlightment age, and this man is believed to be the person on the left of the box art. Now that ES have done the anceint times (twice now) and medievil times it will most definetly be something after the medievil age. And personally, I think rifles, pikes and all this will be quite interesting. Now lets hope ES doesn't run into the same mistakes as it did with AOM. [This message has been edited by Kasei (edited 04-08-2004 @ 05:18 PM).]
Now we have this little picture of what is believed to be part of the box art of AOE3:
Here's what I think is going to happen:
Purely because the 3-person-on-front thing seems to be a tradition.
The enlightment age will be featured in AOE3, being maybe the 2nd or 3rd age? I hope it's the 3rd- don't want them to get too advanced into modern time do we?
Bad graphics (and engine is pretty weak)
Weak editor (probably main reason why a lot of people didnt go to aom)
Boring campaign (also it had only 1 campaign)
Fewer online features.
Formerly Rider