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05-11-2005, 01:13 PM
Microsoft sends along a short Press Release announcing some of the PC titles they will feature at the upcoming E3 trade show.

Microsoft Game Studios is proud to announce the stunning, all-new successor to Rise of Nations, which won multiple awards for Real-Time Strategy Game of the Year in 2003. The new game, Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, promises to reinvent the RTS genre once again with a game that immerses players in an epic fantasy war between the forces of Magic and Technology. Gamers fight through towering cities, flame-swept deserts and brutal ice plains in battles filled with mystical creatures, devastating machines and incredible acts of magic. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends will raise the bar in the RTS genre with jaw-dropping graphics from an all-new 3-D engine, immersive in-game cinematics, integrated story-driven gameplay, a multiplayer mode for fast-paced games and clan support to build online communities.

Today Microsoft Game Studios is also announcing an exciting expansion to the wildly popular, award-winning Zoo Tycoon 2. Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species will let zookeepers adopt and raise some of the world’s rarest animals, such as the Giant Galapagos Tortoise and the Scimitar Horned Oryx. The upcoming expansion will bring zookeepers and their guests closer than ever to these amazing animals, thanks to new transportation options including sky trams and vehicle tours. With more than a dozen exotic new animals, innovative new people-movers and new challenges in the Campaign and Freeform modes, players and their families will have a huge variety of new options for building their dream zoo.

In addition to these titles, Microsoft Game Studios will showcase Age of Empires III, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Dungeon Siege II and Fable: The Lost Chapters at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). These breakthrough titles once again demonstrate that some of the best and most innovative gaming experiences are on the Windows platform. Today’s announcement underscores Microsoft’s continued commitment to delivering top-notch games for Windows – a platform that boasts an installed base of more than 81 million home computers in North America, which is larger than all three major gaming consoles combined. This killer lineup of Windows games means that 2005 and 2006 promise to be great years for Windows gamers.

bobbler
05-11-2005, 01:20 PM
Man...
Microsoft made some good choices of dev houses to eat up.

All those games look at least midly entertaining.

noxa
05-11-2005, 02:13 PM
AOE3 and DS2 are must buys for me - I'm getting excited!

I tried to play Dungeon Lords the other day, thinking that it would hold me over until DS2, but take my word for it: worst game ever.

Kelegacy
05-11-2005, 02:15 PM
booooooring. Rise of Nations will appease RTS gamers but the rest look to suck. Yes I'm looking at Dungeon Siege. But that's because I hate hack/slashers and how they have come to rule the PC RPG market while the old-school CRPG's or turnbased, story-based, and adventure based have been annihilated in a mass genocide of the late 90's.

Klade
05-11-2005, 03:43 PM
I'm really not interested in any of those games. Not an RTS fan and not a fan of hack-n-slash games either. So ya looks like this will be another microsoft free year for me.

MrPoo
05-11-2005, 04:43 PM
I'd just about kill for a Freelancer II. With Clive Owen providing lead role's voice ala Privateer II.

<sigh>

Still, Dungeon Siege II could be fun. Had lots of fun with coop multiplayer with #1...

president_fred
05-11-2005, 05:12 PM
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends looks like it could be really good. Must not buy into hype... so difficult. but it's a 2006 release :(

mister_slim
05-11-2005, 05:43 PM
Who actually owns Age Of Empires? MGS? Or someone else? I noticed Majesco is publishing the DS version.

Tricky Thumb
05-11-2005, 06:13 PM
Rise of Legends will be great as will AoE II, I can't fucking wait.

Oh right, I believe that Ensemble Studios still owns AoE... I think?

Kyle Jones
05-11-2005, 06:39 PM
DS2 will be happily occupying some of my time, along with Legends when it comes out. All and all, I think that things are going good for the ol' PC.

baz
05-11-2005, 09:03 PM
There is a damn good chance that I'll buy 4/5 of those games... I might just have to upgrade my compy after all :D

Varsity
05-11-2005, 11:43 PM
I wonder why they gave ROL so much more precedence than AOE? AOE is a far better known franchise. I guess it's because ROL was only just revealed.

Kyle Jones
05-12-2005, 09:59 AM
Well, Age of Myth didn't do that well if memory serves me, and RON was quite a popular game atleast review-wise.