Soldato
7th in line at Fileplanet and have been for 5 mins 
Empire at War demo next wednesday!
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HangTime said:
Cracking link mate, going like the clappers
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400kbps from FilePlanet for me atm.
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I think the word "Meh" sums this demo up for me.
Graphics are dissapointing, even turned upto max - textures seem very fuzzy. But I'm more dissapointed with the space battles....there's no Z-axis movement, so its just like the land battles but with a space backdrop. Was I wrong in expecting something like Homeworld??
The 'cinematic view' camera sucks, it seemed to like staring at asteroids, and seems rather pointless unless your totally dominating the enemy force and are in a position to sit back and let the AI finish the job.
I do like the fleet management - where you can retreat back into orbit to save your troops, bring fleets from other planets to reinforce then land again. You can set up space defences around planets you control etc etc. That bit, I do like.
But the battles themselves...aren't right. "Tank Rush" for the win, and the fact that AT-ST's aren't much bigger than troops doesn't help.
So back to my orginal comment...it appears I wont be eating my hat, and I'd like to claim my five pounds!
Graphics are dissapointing, even turned upto max - textures seem very fuzzy. But I'm more dissapointed with the space battles....there's no Z-axis movement, so its just like the land battles but with a space backdrop. Was I wrong in expecting something like Homeworld??
The 'cinematic view' camera sucks, it seemed to like staring at asteroids, and seems rather pointless unless your totally dominating the enemy force and are in a position to sit back and let the AI finish the job.
I do like the fleet management - where you can retreat back into orbit to save your troops, bring fleets from other planets to reinforce then land again. You can set up space defences around planets you control etc etc. That bit, I do like.
But the battles themselves...aren't right. "Tank Rush" for the win, and the fact that AT-ST's aren't much bigger than troops doesn't help.
So back to my orginal comment...it appears I wont be eating my hat, and I'd like to claim my five pounds!
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Soldato
I agree with you about the Homeworld bit. There aren't enough decent Homeworld clones. IG2 wasn't bad, but HW is really the daddy. Space RTS games should be 3D really.
Soldato
downloading from that nice n fast ftp link above now thanks fella,
but am i waisting my time then??
but am i waisting my time then??
HangTime said:
brilliant
getting 1.3mb/s from that.i signed upto fileplanet but im amazingly un-inpressed, have to keep pausing and un pausing the downloads to keep em going, total waist of money
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ok i take back the fileplanet complaint, must have got it at a bad time, its working blazingly fast now?
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Soldato
Just downloaded from the above Gamers Hell link and got a setup.exe error when loading the file. Trying again now Good job its going at 1228kb/s 
Good job its going at 1228kb/s
Soldato
HangTime said:
Fast but borked !
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Eva01 said:downloading at 1mb/s from fileplanet love my subscription too
Damn, How much is that sub cost?
Ive still not been able to download it yet, to slow speeds and dodgy downloads that cut out. Someone ghet some screens up
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HangTime said:
I have tried both the Dutch & the Uk mirror's, now trying the Greece mirror
Gameplay seems ok. Not that complex to master quickly just standard RTS stuff. Feels a lot like Command & Conquer circa 1995. GFX are DX8 level really with a few DX9 FX thrown in for the explosions, heat haze & smoke. Some of the objects/landscapes lack polygons and look very blocky close up.
Plays smoothly for me @1920x1200 on a 6800GT so should work well on lower spec hardware @1024x768 & 1280x1024. Music is the John Williams tracks remixed slightly in places. SoundFX are sharp & well done.
Overall the whole thing seems like it is lacking a little something to be a really top scoring game. Big improvement on Battlefront2 however. No doubt it will sell very well because of the franchise & a sequel/mission pack is probably already underway.
Plays smoothly for me @1920x1200 on a 6800GT so should work well on lower spec hardware @1024x768 & 1280x1024. Music is the John Williams tracks remixed slightly in places. SoundFX are sharp & well done.
Overall the whole thing seems like it is lacking a little something to be a really top scoring game. Big improvement on Battlefront2 however. No doubt it will sell very well because of the franchise & a sequel/mission pack is probably already underway.