Age of Empires III Expansion pack

My computer is anything but a "gaming rig" by today's standards. I still sport an AMD Athlon Xp2000+ CPU, 768mb DDR RAM (consisting of PC-2100 and PC-2700), an old Sound Blaster Live! card, a GeForce FX 5500 and a roughly seven-year-old ECS motherboard. I'm amazed that it's still running. I can run Half-Life 2 fine, but nothing past that.

I had to play the demo for FEAR on Shawn's laptop, because I could only muster 2-3 frames per second with my humble machine.

All of that aside, I love Age of Empires II. With the Conquerors expansion pack it's the greatest RTS game ever, and a favorite game all around between Shawn and I. It is our ego sparring ground.

(that and Super Smash Bros. on the N64, but that's another story)

Anyways, like every AOE:II fan I was excited to see all of the videos for Age of Empires III and couldn't wait to play it. Well, some time later I still can't play it, and now there is an expansion pack being released for it. You can find the demo for that here. I'm still excited, as I've played the game with the graphics relatively off on a friends' computer, but never really had the full experience.

A year from now I plan on buying a new laptop, and/or upgrading my computer so I can actually play all of the neat games I've been missing out on, and the future release of Bioshock.

If someone out there could tell me how the new AOE:III expansion pack demo is, I'd appreciate it. I won't get around to it for a while.

Adios.