Hope it turns out well for them.

SM was pretty crappy as far as SP went.  I know there are MP fans of it though.

I had a great time with both the original and sm, only playing sp. Perhaps the AI wasn't very good, but there are some awesome scenarios available that make you forget this is even issue..

Oh it's going to be fully 3D? I hope they'll be able to maintain the gorgeous atmosphere the previous games had. Then again, they have plenty of experience with 3D, the Overlord games look great imo.

I am one of those who felt that AoW was great, and all the sequels just continued to get worse.  They weren't bad, just worse than the 1st.

The campaign in SM was really not my cup of tea either, and the AI was simply poor.  Which isn't a surprise, few AIs in games like that were/are any good.

I'll be interested to see how 3 turns out though.  I did like the mechanics of the series, just the execution failed in a few areas.

MP got high marks from a lot of people I know, and I know there are several custom scenarios which are entertaining.  Just not entertaining enough for me to deal with the stuff I disliked

Looks very cool. There are obviously a lot of FE comparisions however you would have to compare it to LH and I think LH stands a half decent chance. I would not be surprised at all if this got higher reviews though. It just seems more mainstream and in your face.

It's pics like those bottom 2 that make me want to gouge my eyes out everytime I play FE. Elementals environments are just so bleh. One of my biggest beefs with FE is the lack of interesting terrain, props, and worlds. So far LH still has a ways to go in that regard.  

Oh ya and they have navies.

I'm worried about his as well. LH seems awesome but outside tactical battles it seems like the races will be even more homogenized with the cutting of several resources. You can't just have the races have different units, they have to have to play differently strategically as well.

I don't think this has ever been done well.

LH will have swarming and line damage.

We can hope?

Here's hoping it'll work on my mac

This announcement really made my day. I have been playing AoW for like 12-13 years. No game has pulled me and kept me like that, EVER! I made a lot of friends playing it online (and I agree, that's where it really shines). The only bad thing about this news, is that autumn can't come any faster!

This game looks awesome. I loved AOW 1 and 2.

See different strokes for different folks..personally I wretch at the inclusion of elves in fantasy but I'm excited about Aow3 specifically because of the steam punk and religious elements. What bugs me is this video..its all concept and no gameplay. cosplay videos to advertise video games instead of the actual games themselves - are slowly being norm...and we shouldnt accept this as customers. So us the product not a romanticized sales pitch.

Screw you both, I like both elves and steampunk. 

Actually, the earlier AoW games already showed the beginnings of steampunk-ishness with airships, firearms, canons, flame canons, drills, etc. In AoW1 humans even had muskets and in AoW2/SM we had freakin' Steamtanks. There was quite a bit of technology in that fantasy world. 

I've been kinda harsh (but IMO deservedly so) on the AOW series for its garbage AI, but on their forums, I did see a promising sign- it sounds like they're going to try and use the threading AI idea that Stardock did for the Elemental games.

One thing Stardock should borrow from AOW3- they're going to make the quick battles run like full tactical battles, just under the hood.  This will be different from how it is done in FE (which is pretty terrible and a fairly decent knock on FE)

Hey guys!

First of all, this forum is amazing! I think this is the most beautiful forum i have ever seen!

I ran across it when i was doing research for my Age of wonders 3 fanpage.

Anyways, i wanted to agree with enoeraew37 that thefirst video is more of a conceptual teaser. We are lucky though that we got some pictures of Age of wonders to boot!