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Ok Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Rise of Nations is an ok game. I find that when you play this game to the end and through all the ages several big mistakes that make the game a lot less fun. First off, you advance way too quickly. Within five minutes you can already be in the gunpowder age, and I find that no real combat occurs until you're in the last age. This bothers me. I hate it when all you do in the game is nuke them and rush in with all your tanks and machine guns--which, by the way, a normal infantry does more damage than a tank, or at least a tank should do way more damage, which leads me to point two, unit damage, health, and armor have no relevance to what that unit really is. Like I said, tanks don't do enough, and other units plainly just don't fit--like ships, they are way too small compared to a normal unit. Its like you can have a little archer go up to this ship and he just sits there firing his little arrows and the ship is hitting him with cannons and the archer doesn't die until the 6th shot. Also the ship is half dead by then. Plus you can have musketeers go out and start shooting at a group of archers and some how the archers end up killing them. Another thing I hated was the population limit--suddenly your nation can't get any bigger because what do you know you can't have more than 200 people living in your nation--it looks like I'll have to get the rare resource, peacocks, so I can have more people in my nation--It just doesn't make sense. Nevertheless, I did find that Rise of Nations entertained me for about half a month, and I every once and a while come back to it and play it. It has great graphics and the game is arranged in a logical order. Rise of Nations is definitely better than some games and it is pretty good. Buying Rise of Nations may be a good idea, depending on your taste for computer strategy games.

Very suprising...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded the demo as well, and it took me by suprise. I happen to dislike almost all strategy/overhead view games, but this game was just so addictive and stylish from any other.

The game design is very intricate and the way that you can progress through time periods is simply amazing, as well as innovative. Im buying this as soon as I can and its going to be my first strategy game bought since command and conquer for the N64, I suggest you do the same.

What every game should be

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rise of Nations has to be a finalist for game of the year already. Definitely strategy game of the year. I heard this game can be modded to the fullest extent, graphics, AI, sounds, you name it, you can change it.

You can play quick games that last maybe 30 minutes, or drawn out campaigns that take hours. The main single player game is the conquer the world feature, which puts you against all the other civs in the game. This feature is very much like Risk, you move from one area to another conquering the world, making allies, moving your armies, defending your capital, etc.

There is one missing feature: Your standard storyline campaign. While most games rely heavily on this feature(Warcraft III, C&C) RoN has only 6 very limited learning scenarios that teach you the basics of RTS games and the mechanics of RoN itself. There are no historical campaigns like in AoE and the like. The lack of these kind of compaigns does not hurt this game though. Just wait for the mods.

The manual is a bit weak and small, 35 pages, and the fold out chart has only hotkeys and civ descriptions. There is nothing to describe the units or showing you how they advance. Nothing explaining the tech or age advances. I would have expected a chart detailing these items, like most other RTS games.

Depth and scope are easily the best features of this game. The fact that you can go from swordsmen and archers all the way up to advanced aircraft and ICBMs makes sure you never get bored with this game. This game is what Empire Earth should have been. This is how all games should be.

Damn, I got too many games to play.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This review is strictly from the demo. But if the demo is only the tip of the iceberg, then I may have to get this one and kiss the outside world goodbye. I'm already playing two other great RTS games, plus I'm a Beta Tester for a couple of great RPG games and I told myself I can't buy anymore games for at least seven months due to limited time in a day. But after playing the demo to death, this game looks like it would be fun and very deep.

The demo does its job well in hooking you. You start of as a fledgling tribe in pre-roman times and if you do well you could be sending stealth bombers or ICBMs to your annoying neighbor's way. It does my heart good when I get my country to the point when I can send cruise missiles over my border and to the enemy till my heart content. But that isn't saying the AI is a pushover. In hard difficulty the AI is pretty aggressive forcing you to delay some economic reform and put all your moolas on the military.

The demo is absolute fun. An epic RTS without the stupid hassle of rigid resource gathering. Just know what research to do and what infrastructure to build, and then do it better than your neighbor. And reading the reviews I read over the net about this game, then I can see the potential for this game to be a very long experience just to play one of over a dozen faction. Massive replayability for sure. I'll get this game, but I sure would miss the fresh air outside my apartment.

This game is great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: August 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I found this to be immensely fun and challenging. Recently I have been playing "American Conquest" and found that to be nearly addictive. Like AC it has very detailed graphics as well as realistic movement of the units, particularly the infantry. My only complaint is that the game limits the number of units to 200, which for a long campaign is nowhere near adequate. There were several points at which I had the enemy on the run but was unable to make continued advances because I was not allowed to produce adequate reinforcements.

Other than that I thought it was Civilization with the advances I would have like to see in that game.

One of the greatest games EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: September 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm not talking about just a good RTS, which it is. This game goes up in my top favorite of all genre's list. Intelligent AI and a good selection of difficulty levels. Good tutorials and learning scenarios. This being my second RTS i've ever played (the first being Command & Conquer: Generals) i'm was a "newbie" to RTS games, and this is much different (and better) than C&C ever could hope to amount to. This game was easy to learn to play. With the amount of nations you get to play as, each with their own special abilities, a conquer the world campaign, and throw in Online Multiplayer and you have one fantastic game. Again, one of the greatest games, ever.

Awesome!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: September 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is simply put the best RTS I have ever played in my entire life!!! I wuz expecting it to be just another one of those RTS games but it is such an awesome game!!! It's an RTS with a Turn-Based twist. I had recently bought Medieval Total War which is a very fun game but its not much of a RTS more of a turn-based. So if you are looking for something leaning more towards the turn-based go for Medieval or Rome Total War. But if you are looking for an AWESOME RTS get this asap!!!!!!

Correction

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I do not own this game; I am not here to review it (please ignore my star rating; I had to put something there).

To Robert Dunn: in your review, you mentioned that you met all the requirements for this game, and went on to say that it doesn't work because you have an onboard video card. That means that you couldn't have met all the requirements because on the Microsoft website for this game, it clearly states that you need at least a 16Mb video card.

Don't mislead the public.

I guess I'm just lucky...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: February 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

4 yr old Dell Dimension XPS
Pentium III 1GHz
512MB RDRAM
GeForce 256 64MB DDR SDRAM (with current nVidia driver)
SB Audigy 2
Direct X 9.0
Windows XP Pro
80GB Maxtor HD

And the game runs without a hitch. I run it with Norton Internet Security 2003 on, too.

I installed, registered and immediately went to the Big Huge Games site and installed the latest patch.

Lives up to the hype....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: May 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just bought the game two days ago. I can't say enough good things about it. If you're a fan of real time strategy games or of Civilization, I'd suggest picking this one up. It does a great job of intermixing the two genres and blending it into one single, almost perfect product.

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