DMC00

Hello everyone I’m new here, came across this amazing game development somehow so I downloaded it to have a look after seeing pleasing screen shots. Basically I am a huge rts fan and these history era games particularly are my favourite. After playing age of empires (mainly 1 & 2, not aoe 3 that was a horrid experience) for so many years over the zone.com and lans etc it has been very hard to find games that can meet the bench mark of aoe 2. Now this game has amazing promise and I enjoy how well it is to interact with. I know it is still in Alpha stages however I found myself closing the game after a few hours of game play. This was mainly attributed to the fact the game speed is to slow..snail slow, it doesn’t have the same intensity that aoe series brought and made it so popular and secondly territories is a disaster move, being able to build where ever you want is what makes rts games so fun and limitless, territories works but only in wwII alike games like men of war assault squad, dawn of war and company of heroes, I just find these two points hindered and restricted my experience. The good points are that I love the modelling design on the buildings (obviously the human modellings are a bit of wreck at the moment) the trees and water are fabulous, and I was glad to see the innovation to use photo terrain to layer UV texture, but in other textures they are bland and don’t really complete the picture, perhaps grass models would boost land texture in a later instalment. It’s also pleasing to see soldiers can gather resources, also the variety of maps, civilizations and landscape. Overall, I will try to get into this game as I would pay for it because im sure the final product would be great.