[RZetlin]

IGN has an interview with the folks at Ensemble plus pics.

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/576/576023/age-of-empires-iii-20041230022903217.jpg

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/576/576023/age-of-empires-iii-20041230022906639.jpg

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/576/576023/age-of-empires-iii-20041230022910186.jpg

I would like to know what kind of video card will run that.

I don't think my Geforce 2 MX video card will cut it!

 

[Cid Highwind]

This seems to be a LOT better than Settlers 5. Nice screenies

 

[Razor Blade]

Sheesh, are they trying to cripple all our computers? Looks like it's time for no AA and low resolutions

 

[Modem1]

Those are obviously spiced up a big. Seriously doubt the game will look *that* good. If you had to have a computer to run that, they'd lose a lot of money. That's just to make everyone "oooohhhh" and "ahhhhhh" at it. It'll likely look somewhat close to that, but if it had to look like that, you'd need a top of the line machine, and even then, you'd get pretty low frames.
- Modem

 

[stilz]

Those shots look crazy indeed. Now onto gameplay...

 

[Metalmurphy]

:O Very nice. But like stilz said, now onto game play Im sure Settlers V will beat it in that

 

[RF]

Looks awesome Any release date? Demo date?

 

[Raziel]

Looks good sure, but, that's mostly cause it's full of shaders, the polygon count doesn't seem to be THAT high, I bet a card from the previous generation will be more than enough to run it (may be slow on FXs though, dx9 sucks on it )

 

[Typhoon 01]

It looks very nice but i never was a AOE lover so i'll stick to Starcraft and Red Alert 2.

 

[Cid Highwind]

:O Very nice. But like stilz said, now onto game play Im sure Settlers V will beat it in that

I found S5 gameplay to resemble AOE2's a lot With the researching and stuff... It was less settlers like and more AOE like then any other game of the Settler series
So when it comes to gameplay, I doubt Settlers 5 will be a lot better

 

[Ali]

Such a rendering is pretty possible, hell Halflife 2 has literly given me a surprise. Well these pics are definitly a little optimized (maybe not), but one thing good is that in Pic 3 the Landscape is looking damn realistic. I guess on my Ti4200, few of the details will be taken out, but the game will still look pretty impressive.

 

[D.D.]

well...we can always hope that the guys making this game are geniuses and somehow made some incredible algorithm for making this possible (geometry instancing? dunno)

 

[Player-X]

almost looks like an aerial photograph

 

[Metalmurphy]

Some more pics i found. I had to upload them to imageshack since the website wont work for most of you guys (ip restrictions)

 

[Metalmurphy]

and some more

 

[Razor Blade]

Some of those shots looks better than graphic demo's for GPU's!

 

[Ali]

Shadows, Reflections kickass Geometry.
I'd be pissed if the gameplay sucked.

 

[_E_]

/me wants! :drool:

Yours,
-Elly

 

[fivefeet8]

Looks to be the first game to really utilize SM3. Looks very nice. Although I am loving LOTR: BFME, I'd like to try that game out too.

 

[stilz]

The first shot fivefeet8 posted is crazy! oO... They look like a bunch of real models made out if either paper/plastic.
What is SM3? Thanks