Hello Ladies and Gentlemen.

I wanted to play "Ages of Empires 3 Demo/Trial" but I didn't get any further
than the installation program lol.

So instead of reviewing the game/demo I will simply review the installation
program since that's more experienc with this game clearly made by retards ?

The free space before starting the installation program was:

Drive C: 500 MB of free space.
Drive E: 371 MB of free space.
Drive F: 1 GB of free space.

All windows temporarely files/folders/settings have been set to F:\Tempory
Folder\

I started the installation program which proceded to extract a 365 MB file
located in
f:\Temporary Folder\_is174\Age of Empires III Trial.msi and some other
little files as well.

Then it continued to run this file which extracted another *.msi file
located in

C:\Windows\Installer\17ba0c4.msi (357 MB)

(probably an automatically generated file name ?)

The installation program then complained there was not enough free space.

Available space claimed by program: 145.944 KB

Required space:366.409 KB

Which is in itself pretty confusing.

Then it had some extra listview which added to the confusion:

c:\ available: 142 mb required: 2mb difference: 139 mb
c:\ available: 371 mb required: 0mb difference: 371 mb
c:\ available: 673 mb required: 2mb difference: 671 mb

The program is clearly retarded and doesn't know jacksquat what it's doing.

It requires a lot more than 2 MB.... etc...

This is as far as I got with this installation program.

The title read: "InstallShield Wizard"

How about renaming that to: "InstallShield Retard"

Another title read: "Ages Of Empires III Trial Installation Wizard"

How about: "Ages Of Empires III Trial Installation Retard"

I am not sure who to blame.

I could blame InstallShield for writing corporate crapware.

I could blame microsoft for granting them a microsoft certification. Which
would mean: "congratulations it's certified corporate crapware".

In the end the makers of the game are probably to blame... who is that ?

Oh right microsoft lol =D hahahahahahahah how funny.

Well let's see:

365 MB for the zip file
365 MB for the executable
365 MB for the installer 2
357 MB for the installer 3

Wow 1452 of wasted space.

The zip file could be deleted so that would still requi

1087 space.

the installation program even complained it needed another 357 MB of free
space on drive C:

So the final space requirement to install this demo could be as much as:

1444 MB !!!! maybe even more ?!?!?!?!?!!!!

I actually discovered something else.

C:\windows\installer\ is full with junk from previous retarded installation
programs... like 300+ MB.

Even if I deleted that junk the demo would probably still not install !

Final conclusion: Microsoft has outdone itself in writing corporate craw
ware.

My rating:

10+ for retardedness
10+ for wasting space
10+ for wasting time
10+ for confusing installation program

The retardness is off the ****ing retardedness scale lol.

THIS CALLS FOR A BOYCOTT !!!!

I hereby ask all major gaming sites to boycott this demo and/or any future
retarded demo installation programs.

Bye,
Skybuck.