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3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Fun, 2007-05-03
This strategy game combines real time and move-based game.
Map (risiko-based) has nations and armies. When you play your move you enter into 'real time game' that can be in different modes - different goals (e.g. conquer enemy towns, ambush, kill certain # of enemies, defend yourself). Computer can also attack you if he wants the teritory you own. When you get new teritory, you get cards (you can purchase them also) and they can give you extra bonus during the game. For bonus, you can also build wonders within your teritory (when you aquire the card for building the wonder).
It doesn't require high-end machine to play (it will work very good on Pentium III).
It's not very durable - if you play the same campaign 5-10 times (even with different nations) it will become 'seen already'... But it's very fun while it lasts, and I recommend it.
4 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Best Strategy Game in quite a while, 2007-02-10
This game is addictive and can really change with one's selection of nation and what game level one would like to play. The graphics are super and the game play responsive. A great LAN party game, as players can compete with either the computer or other players on the network. Beats Civilization for game play and not as "goary" as some conflict games (such as Wolfenstein).
4 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Great game some frustration, 2007-01-18
I bought the original RON game without the expansion and loved it. I have been thinking about getting the expansion since the original was so much fun. The expansion is great but there are a few things that I dont like. When you go into some of the preset conquer the world scenarios, like being France for instance, it shows that you can attack several different countries when in fact, it forces you to attack the ones it wants you to attack. One of things that makes the game excellent and continually fun is the fact that the replayabilit of the game is one of the best I have seen. You cant do that with some of the prearranged scenarios.
Overall, I give the game the following:
game play: 5 stars
graphics: 4.5 stars
scenarios: 4 stars
sounds/music: 4.5 stars
overall: 4.5 stars
Great game. Fun for all.
6 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
good real-time-strategy, 2007-01-10
Rise of Nations provides a good game experience in the style of Age of Empires. You can choose to play a smaller-scale quick game of 60-90 minutes or a larger scale game. Either way you can enjoy developing your realm and moving up thru the ages from ancient to modern. The buildings and people and of course the military units keep changing thru all the ages. I enjoyed reaching the first level of gunpowder units and attacking the opposition before he advanced. Some aspects of a turn-based strategy game are available also, as you can pause the action, examine everything and issue orders if the action is too fast. The Gold version has interesting campaign scenarios also. I've played thru the Alexander and Napoleon campaigns so far. I'm only reviewing it for the single-player action, I'm not much for going online gaming. I think it's a very good game that deserves being better known.
On my PC - a mid-range desktop with an Athlon 64 3500 and an $80 video card - it performs just fine.
3 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 doesn't live up to age of empires, unfortunately. , 2006-12-03
first off, the "thrones and patriots" expansion pack has noticeably better graphics.
anyway, i had enough of this game even before finishing scenarios... it just doesn't live up to age of empires. here's why. first of all, things simply move too fast. you research ages at lightning-fast speed, to where you don't even know what you're doing. you're clicking on build military units not even knowing what exactly they are, just so you can put up a fair fight. basically you're doing a bunch of things really fast that you don't appreciate because the game moves too fast. in age of empires 2, probably the best RTS game ever, you had to take your time and make sure not to run out of resources. here, it's all about EXPANSION. you have to keep expanding and expanding and expanding at lightning pace.. instead of having one city and working on it, you're supposed to create as many cities as possible!!! the idea is almost laughable. it takes so much trouble to build one city with the appropriate buildings etc., and here you're supposed to build multiple cities as fast as possible. hmm... not exactly like history, at all. not that realism is always a good thing in gaming, but it would be nice to have a sense of time and feel like your discoveries and accomplishments actually mean something, instead of just clicking "research civics," "research military" over and over.
that said, there are amazing things about rise of nations. the combat is a dream because you create and control military units as a unit... in other words you don't control just one soldier, you click and it selects all 3 archers you just created. the one thing i LOVE about rise of nations is that you can drag a box around ONLY military characters without selecting your citizens, too. obviously you don't want to send them into battle. this will surely become the standard control for RTS games from here on out.
citizens are easy to manage because they go to work at an appropriate place as soon as they're created. farms aren't a hassle like in AOE, because they're an unlimited food supply and don't go bad. with so many great things going for RON, it's a shame they didn't SIMPLIFY IT to be easier and more addictive like AOE. you have all these issues with tributes and truces and blah blah blah. oh yeah, and figure them all out while your battles are raging instead of getting to pause first. i really WANT to like this game, a lot... but it makes my head spin playing it.
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