{"id":124,"date":"2005-05-16T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2006-08-19T20:31:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T00:31:06","slug":"new-screens-of-aoe3-and-rol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/16\/new-screens-of-aoe3-and-rol\/","title":{"rendered":"New screens of AoE3 and RoL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrago has new screenshots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferrago.com\/story\/5705\"><i>Age of Empires III<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferrago.com\/story\/5708\"><i>Rise of Legends<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If they keep this up, I&#8217;m going to lose all my hardcore grognard street cred by gushing over graphics.<\/p>\n<p>First the <i>AoE3<\/i> screens. The Vauban style fort in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferrago.com\/image\/5705\/5\">this shot<\/a> is a little out of place in the New World. I guess Louisbourg was a pretty solid fortress, but most New World fortifications were simpler. But it&#8217;s really silly pointing out ahistorical stuff in an <i>Age<\/i> game. I think I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferrago.com\/image\/5705\/4\">this shot<\/a> in an old Western once. All the new screenshots look amazing, but give little real sense of what the game is going to be like. No new battle scenes, not a lot of resource gathering stuff. More a pretty textbook than the sense that there is a game going on. But this is Ensemble and the game related stuff should be available soon.<\/p>\n<p>As for <i>Rise of Legends<\/i>, it is still a year off. No way to tell that from the screenshots. Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferrago.com\/image\/5708\/5\">battle scene<\/a>. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferrago.com\/image\/5708\/10\">this one<\/a>. The themes of an Arabian Nights world and a steampunk civilization are pretty clear. There looks to be a genie in one of the battles and one of the cities has that fantasy Harun al-Rashid thing going on. The flying machines look really cool. Here we have a lot of battles, but little else. I am assuming that most of these shots are coming from the story driven campaign in production, so the conflict is the centerpiece. But a little more of the civilian side would be nice. As I mentioned earlier, I play my RTS games at a pretty slow pace, so the domestic development is something I am really interested in.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferrago.com\">Ferrago<\/a> for posting these screenshots. The anticipation is almost as sweet as the inevitable satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrago has new screenshots of Age of Empires III and Rise of Legends. If they keep this up, I&#8217;m going to lose all my hardcore grognard street cred by gushing over graphics. First the AoE3 screens. The Vauban style fort in this shot is a little out of place in the New World. I guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-20","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}