Age of Empires Now Out!

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&platformId=2&productType=2&catalog=0&sectionId=0&productId=49440' target='_blank'>http://www.handango.com/PlatformPro...productId=49440</a><br /><br /></div>Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war - Age of Empires has arrived for your Pocket PC!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/aoe_01.gif" /><br /><br />"Age of Empires is an epic real-time strategy game spanning 10,000 years, in which players are the guiding spirit in the evolution of small stone age tribes. Starting with minimal resources, players are challenged to build their tribes into great civilizations. Gamers can choose from one of several ways to win the game, including: world domination by conquering enemy civilizations, exploration of the known world and economic victory through the accumulation of wealth."<br /><br />• Beautiful graphics, comprehensive technology tree and dozens of units <br />• Huge battles of historical conquest. <br />• All New Roman Architecture<br /><br />There are quite a few reviews popping up all over the Web: <a href="http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/2757.html">infoSync</a>, <a href="http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=1028&showComments=true">Bargain PDA</a>, <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimatepocket.com%2Fmodules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%26name%3DNews%26file%3Darticle%26sid%3D1152&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools">and UltimatePocket</a> (Google translation from French). It's a little pricey at $29.95, but talk about replayability...

[spursdude]

Wow guess what I'm going to be playing around with for the next few days...

but breaking 14MB for a full installation? that's really huge...and for any other game, i would have considered it too huge.

[revolution.cx]

Years ago when I was writing GAPI for Microsoft I cobbled together a screen capture of a 1/4 res Age of Empires screen with a little app on the Pocket PC that allowed you to scroll around it.

Showed that around as eye candy and urged them to do a Pocket PC port of AOE internally. Back then games were still a dirty word so of course that went nowhere.

It was just too huge a project with too small a market for me to make a proposal to do it myself.

I'm glad someone finally did it, good job! (I hope!).

Then there was that first Quake port I did but never released - someone else came along later with theirs.

Then the voxel landscape demo that I didn't do anything with - someone wrote a popular game with the same basic engine.

Oh well, the world belongs to those who finish software and release it....so back to work I go!


Hayes

PS 14 mb for full install...that's probably pretty good considering the original graphics without cut scenes were close to 100 mb.

[Zuph]

I just wet myself. I hope this game turns out to be as good as the original....I'm speechless...This and PocketEQ have made my dreams come true. I'm a happy pocket gamer :)

[mookie123]

Hey game maker guru, can you port A-train for me? :D Or any simulator game actually. I am sick with all this shoot 'em up game.

[ThomasC22]

I just wet myself. I hope this game turns out to be as good as the original....I'm speechless...This and PocketEQ have made my dreams come true. I'm a happy pocket gamer :)

That was probably too much information :)

That said, I too am pretty excited about this. Not only for the game itself but because, and I had never realized it before this either but, this type of game is really well suited for the PDA enviornment so hopefully we'll see more games like this (or at least a red alert port :))

[JonnoB]

Oh well, the world belongs to those who finish software and release it....so back to work I go!

Finish and apply marketing. There have been so many stories of good technology that died. Sometimes I miss the days when the hobbyist ran the show. That was before I had a family to support :wink:

[Foo Fighter]

Does this game run ok from an SD/CF card?

[PhatCohiba]

Runs fine from a SD card. And since the Campains and Scenarios can be installed separately, you can manage your install size.

too bad you can't play over the internet ;-)

Actually the pen interface looks pretty good, and it seems pretty faithful to the origional.

[juni]

Everquest, Age of Empires, Argentum, Rayman Ultimate....pocket pc is turning out to be quite the gaming machine. :)

[Foo Fighter]

Everquest, Age of Empires, Argentum, Rayman Ultimate....pocket pc is turning out to be quite the gaming machine. :)

If only Microsoft would position Pocket PC as a mobile Xbox gaming platform, it would make the gameboy advance look like a cheap toy.... :cry:

[Daniel]

Excellent game, I wanna!

Damn it, if people keep coming out with great software for PocketPCs I'll have to get another one sooner rather than later! :)

Does anyone know if the cheats still work? ;)

Daniel

[BugDude10]

Hey! I just wet myself too!

By the way, what is "Age of Empires?"


:D

[ziad]

Dude ! You're advertising for this UltimatePocket thing ? Do you know that they ALWAYS take YOUR news and YOUR pictures without even naming PocketPCThoughts ?

Besides, their review is just a presentation of the game ! No personal thoughts !

[PhatCohiba]

Excellent game, I wanna!

Damn it, if people keep coming out with great software for PocketPCs I'll have to get another one sooner rather than later! :)

Does anyone know if the cheats still work? ;)

Daniel

No chat. so It looks like no cheats :cry: .

-jb

[spg]

Excellent game, I wanna!

Damn it, if people keep coming out with great software for PocketPCs I'll have to get another one sooner rather than later! :)

Does anyone know if the cheats still work? ;)

Daniel

No chat. so It looks like no cheats :cry: .

-jb

What!?!? No cheats!? How on earth are we supposed to play this game? :lol:

Ok, just kidding. Age of Empires on the PC is a very addicting game. I'm trying to make myself stay away from the PPC version, or else I won't be doing anything else for the next few weeks. :-)

[Foo Fighter]

By the way, what is "Age of Empires?" :D

What is AOE?!?! Only the best real-time strategy game of all time. I have Age of Mythology on Christmas list this year. My GF already purchased my copy. I found where she hid it. :x-mas:

[Malmer]

I always thought Starcraft was the best RTS of all time...But then again...that depends on who you are. I know my dad has played lots of AoE.

[Barak]

FOO:

I have been playing Age of Mythology for a couple of weeks and it's awesome. The AI is kicking ma A$$ all over the place, but god the graphics and game play are sweet!