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Rise of Nations Friend AND Foe

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

R of N is one of the most historically accurate strategy games focusing on more than a single culture. You can take one civilization and move it through all the different ages of the world, from ancient age to the high tech information age. Even better is the actual gameplay. As usual, though, it takes too long to load on some PCs.

Great buy!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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!

Age of Empires prequel

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

Overlooking Rise of Legends

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

Good enough

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Buy this game if you love real-time-strategy, resource gathering and building games. It is one of the better ones available. If you do not like RTS then do not buy this game. Simple enough.

Gets old

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 35
Date: June 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is awful .you might like it for the first sevral games but it gets old after awhile. Every game is about the same. After you get the later technologies you just build a thousand missle silos and nuke the enemies until they get a missle shield and nobody ever wins

Pretty, but once you beat it, why play it again?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was hoping that this would be a game with a lot of replay-ability and what I got was a game that, once you learn it, just becomes tedious.

Once you figure out what you need to do to get your civilization going, it's a matter of building the same city the same way over and over.

And, it didn't take me long to find an approach to beating the computer that the AI couldn't cope with. I suppose this game would be a lot more fun to play against other humans, but you'd think that in this age of 2 gig and faster processors these game manufacturers would be able to build a game where the computer could really think out some challenging tactics. Not in this game.

So, for me it was fun getting up the learning curve, but now it's boring and once I win the current game I'm playing, on "tough" mode on a "big huge" map, I plan to sell it used.

Rise of Nations Gold

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 34
Date: February 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

OK! I am a strategy game fan. This game fell way below my expectations. The technologies you can research and create are nowhere near as good as Empire Earths's. The game is slow to load, and slow to unload compared to other PC games. I'm guessing that the organizations that picked this dog for PC game of the year were paid off. The one and only feature that this game has that I liked is that there are no priests, or wizards, to create disasters that wreak havoc on your forces. I got $2.00 when I sold this cow to a used game store and was glad to get rid of it.

Everyone else here is missing one large point when they talk about Rise of Nations

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

everyone else who has writtena review has not mentioned the online play. I admit without the online play this would be a 3 to 4 star game but the online play is what make this game worthwhile. so gather up your friends and fight them to the death. also the replay ability is amazing. change the settings any way you like. if you dont want to have to get oil then make the stopping point the age before that. This game is for anyone who likes any real-time strategy games and for those who are curious. I would try the demo (...) first but if you like age of empires, starcraft, warcraft 3, and any other really good rts (real-time stratefy) this is for u.

The best pc game I've played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is fantastic I really like all the different ages. It makes it so much more fun then just being in one particuler period of time. The Ages are Ancient(10,000BC-200BC)Classical(200BC-500AD) Medieval(500-1200)Gunpowder(1200-1650)Enlightenment(1650-1875)Industrial(1875-1930)Modern(1930-1980) and Information(1980-present).
You can also fight with an extremely wide varitey of units, anywhere from phlanxs, archers, cavalry, javalineers, and catapults to infantry machine guns, bazookas, tanks, battleships,stealth bombers(one of my favorite), fighters and even (drumroll please)nukes and much more!!
The game is a little complicated but not to complicated. Instead of just one source of money you have 6; food, wood, metal,wealth, knowledge, and sometimes oil. To get all of these things you'll need to build citizens and put them to work at farms mines etc. All of these used for different types of things. For example knowledge is used for age advancement and wood is used for buldings and units.
The absolute best thing about the game is the different campaigns:

Alexander the Great- 8/10 Try and take over the known world of the classical age including the Romans, Egyptions, Persians, and Indians. Also do the thing I most like about campaign the real historical battles.

Napolian- 7/10 Try and take over Europe in the Enlightenment Age with Napolian and become emporor of a continent. Again do historical battles.

The New World- 7/10 Try and take over North and South America in the gunpowder/enlightenment age as a Europian nation; English, Spanish etc. an Indian nation Iriquis, Aztecs, etc. or the Americans.

The Cold War- 9/10 The best campaign. Be the Americans or Soviets in the modern/information age. Control The Nado and Warsaw Pacts. Purchase Nukes. Win an economic or war victory(although if the americans and soviets go to war there will be nuclear annilation)also conquer as much of world as you can.

The Entire World- 5/10 Fun at first but gets boring. Be any nation and try and conquer the world. Starts Ancient age ends Information age. The really bad thing about this campaign is the lack of varity of battles you'll find yourself doing the same thing over and over.

Overall a great game also for a great price 25$.

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