No, I don't have it, but I just watched someone (here at school) play through the second half of the game (chapters 5-9). Awesome, awesome game, just like I thought... very short, but awesome, and there is stuff to do after you finish -- timetrials, hard mode, etc. Amazing graphics and art design, awesome moves, fun looking around for where to go next... it'd take a while to get used to the controls for sure, but it looks great. It's definitely something I want to own...
Oh, really, really good music and sound effects too.
Seriously, have you seen this nonsense? CNN's been going on and on since election day about their new "holographic interviews". The one problem? They aren't holograms! They've yet to figure out how to get two light beams to just sort of stop in midair like that. All they did was place a bluescreen image into the scene. They already do that. The only difference was that they were able to "synch" a huge number of the images to the in-studio images to give the illusion of the image "spinning" when the camera moved. Those interviewers are talking to empty space, not a hologram actually being projected in the studio.
Seriously though, they aren't making that distinction clear at all, going on and on about how it's a "television first" and how it's holograms "just like a holodeck or princess Leia". Though they don't distinctly claim it's an image directly projected in space in front of that guy, they might as well with all that fanfair. Sure anyone can claim they have holographic technology if they REDEFINE THE WORD! I have holographic technology in the form of my gameboy! Yay! Holographic technology for everyone! Sorry, but this is lying as far as I'm concerned. And, what's the point of their cheap trick? They could easily just show them on a screen behind them, no problem. Why bother? The only reason I can figure is so that they CAN lie and say it's a hologram.
I know you all remember Age of Empires! Stop denying it!
Ahhh anyway, I just rebought a cheap little copy, with all three versions, on one CD. My brother, who lives in the same household as I, has the same edition. So, I thinks to meself, methinks, "we ought to get some multiplayer going on," but as it turns out, the Zone, the Microsoft website of olde where I used to play AoE way back in the dawn of time, no longer operates; they referred me to a new, PAY site.
I refuse to pay for a sevice that was, for so long, free.
My question, to you, is:
Is there a way to play online for free?
Since we live in the same house, is there some way to link up our laptops or something to that effect, to play AoE?
