Quote Originally Posted by Forward Observer View Post
I have the game for the PS 3 [...] I do not know if the X-box version has any of these issues.
My xbox version has a few problems. The game slows and chugs along during the later phases if the camera is required to move quickly from one side of the map to the other, as is often the case when scrolling between the cities of a large empire.

The engine wheezes if one advisor/AI character quickly comes up on screen to replace another. That was possibly my own fault for hammering the B button to get rid of them as quickly as possible, and so forcing the game to display the characters while it was still loading the resources for them.

In a few battles the men which make up the two battling units stumbled around and refused to fight for a long time. That meant the game was trapped in the battle. The worst example lasted for around a minute; the men started to attack each other as I got up to reset the console.



My system is one of the older 60 GB models that has the all of the PS 2 backward compatible hardware. I have been told that the newer 40 GB (not backward compatible) models actually perform better because they run cooler than the 60 GB versions.
That's one I haven't heard before. I have one of the original, backward compatible PAL models and it's rare that I hear the fans kick in to give it more cooling than it gets while idling. As a general observation, it's DVD playback rather than gaming which places more stress on my PS3.