I was just wondering, has there been any word on gameplay? I've been a fan of AOE ever since the first one came out. My friend got WC:III recently and I went over to his house to play it, but I was disappointed. The graphics looked awsome, but the gameplay IMHO didn't match up. Just like previous Blizzard RTS games, it lacked a lot of things compared to AOE.
When I played a multiplayer game, I found that it was just too short and lacked technologies. A typical multiplayer game would last about 15 minutes, compared to the fun-packed average 2 hours I would usually play on AOE and AOK. When I played, there weren't enough technologies to look forward to, and it just all passed by too fast, not very much time to put together and use a good strategy. I also found that in the Beta, things were horribally uneven. Basically, there were no counters! People would rule with masses of a single unit type and win because it couldn't be countered. I hope that this has been fixed now, but I think the game won't be very fun.
So now I'm wondering if AOM is going to incorperate similar gameplay ( like 15 minutes ) or is it going to have games that can last hours just like previous versions (AOE1\2)
THNX!
ReGaRdZ,
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