Why I buy this one ?
- Lead 1 of 24 diverse nations in this epic, historical, real-time strategy game
- Engage in 5 single player campaigns and over 130 scenarios
- Brings to life 6,000 years of history from the ancient age to the information age
- 6 new nations, 4 unique single-player campaigns, 20+ original units, and more
- Challenge up to 8 players on the Internet or via local area network

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What our customer's say!

"Nothing But Software ?", I received my package today to find that I only received a DVD-ROM CD and the key codes. Even though their company name may hint at it, I did not receive what was pictured in the actual item - was expecting a retail box version of the game. Did I miss something in the description that insinuated that I would be getting what appears to be a OEM version of the game ? I just happen to be one of the consumers who appreciates the packaging and instructions for games. I'd like some feedback, if possible.

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"Not fun", This game is impossible. Why bother making it if it's impossible. One unit of a certain type could easily wipe oot a whole frickin' army of another! OCH!!!!!!

"Overlooking Rise of Legends", I would implore those reading this to think of buying this NOT so much for Rise of Nations as they would for buying Rise of Legends, with a throw in of the old "Rise of Nations." Rise of Nations, frankly, wasn't all that great. It wasn't much fun, and indeed was no more than a Microsoft knock off of the Age of Empires series.

Rise of Legends, however, gives you a completely different experience. There are no nukes, three completely different sides, all with different tactics needed, interesting tech trees, a far more interesting economy than Rise of Nations--in fact, if you can get "Rise of Legends" from gogamer.com (if they get it back in stock or if you can find it on a "$5.99 Crystal Only" shelf somewhere). Rise of Legends is a tremendous game and an even better long term multiplayer game. So If you're considering buying this, I would suggest you think of yourself as buying Rise of Legends with Rise of Nations thrown in as an extra, not the other way around. In all of the reviews I read, people review Rise of Nations. Nobody seemed to review "Rise of Legends" where you're given four "Heros" each of which goes up in level, rises in power, can certainly turn the tide of battle and in certain cases (especially with airborn heroes) can occasionally take smaller locations by themselves. It's a vastly different game from Rise of Nations. That's why I rated this 4/4--because it included Rise of Nations. If it were "Rise of Legends alone it would have received a 5 of 5. Here it's a year later and much like Supreme Commander, I STILL play Rise of Legends multiplayer with my friends via Skype. If you can, as I said earlier, try to get Rise of Legends itself and skip Rise of Nations completely, unless you've never played any of the Age of Empires games in which case it's barely worthwhile. But if you want to reach THAT far back in gaming history, find a system that will run the two Kohan games and skip the whole "Age of" series. I would also recommend Majesty and the Majesty:Northern Expansion, both of which have been on my hard drive for eight years now.

"Age of Empires prequel", This is a 3d-that-looks-more-like-2d prequel to Age of Empires, the game play is fun, though a bit klunky. Good tutorial, and fun if you'd like an AoE sidekick, with a similar though not very eye-popping interface.

"Great buy!", The reviewer who called this game boring totally missed out by playing only 1 out 5 of the campaigns. The Conquer the World campaign is fun, but yes it is the typical run of the mill RTS. But, the other campaigns have very different scenarios! For example, the Cold War campaign (my favorite) brings alot of historical perspective as you choose between propping up puppet governments or supporting rebel uprising, seeking appeasement with the Russians or going for all out nuclear war.

This game is a great buy, especially at the current price. I played it nonstop for 2 months and I break it out for about a week or two every couple of months.

Big Note: Don't lose the product key!

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Fun", 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.

"Best Strategy Game in quite a while", 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).

"Great game some frustration", 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.

"good real-time-strategy", 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.

"doesn't live up to age of empires, unfortunately. ", 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.