Heres what I expected.. I was expecting the indians to acually be more like a neutral power in the map that you have to play diplomatic games with. The indian villages on the map are a joke.. its mostly for the eye candy. They arn't "real" villages.. they are really just mercenary camps to get cheap units off of. It would be cool if the size of their villages was scalable to the map size. It would also be cool if they reacted more like an indian village, so if you trespass their terrictory too much they might attack you or it might be harder to make diplomatic proposals to them.
I was hoping for some innovation to this degree.
The hero is also overrated.. most the time I forget to use him. Hes only useful when you get the knight upgrade.
Combat system is pretty much the same with any other rts game that included a "musket age".
Home city is not bad.. I like how you can get unique buildings like forts and factories... just need to add more unique stuff like that.
Of course theres the argument that its becuz tis a demo.. well I'll be waiting then. I am eager to see how multiplayer turns out. Thats when every bit of the game is used to maximum potential. **Oh yes... about combat.. ES clearly stated in an interview that combat in aoe3 will be like what AoK formations did for AoE.. WHICH WAS HUGE.. so I hope they know what they're talking about.** Its still a demo, so we shall see. aoe to aok transition aok to aoe3 transition [This message has been edited by yangsta (edited 09-10-2005 @ 02:45 AM).]
ok lets compare...
-awsome formations
-improves graphics
-slightly better scaled buildings
-u can walk through farms! no mo farm walls!
-awsome variation in units
-houses varied each time u built a new 1
-better terrain elevations
-improves campaign editor
-CAN GARRISON UNITS!
-buy/sell via markets OMG!
-many diverse cultures
-new victory goals
-extensive tech trees
-tons of cool options like rally points.. shift commmands
-castles are cool
-physics
-graphic
-new age.. doesn't really count
-indians EXTREMELY overrated
-trade routes
-home city not bad.. but overrated
-hero... OVERRATED