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I would highly recomemd for strategy inthusist

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you like strategy games then this one is for you. It keeps you absorbed for hours. Amazon delivered my game promptly and at a great price too! I also bought the expansion pack Kings and Patriots.

It's ok..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Released date was in 2006 and I was expecting a little more. For a $10 game it is ok. Gameplay is a little awkward. It's like playing a classic board game with some modern affects and modern stategy. I think they could have been a little more creative. There's 2 main modes. The first mode is like risk where you are in map mode. The second mode is where you control the battle front. If the maps were larger and the gameplay a little better the game would have potential.

repetitive and personality changing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought this game it was pretty fun. It has nice graphics.After about one and a half months it started to be repetitive and I was getting tired of killing people. I stopped playing it. Then my 7 year old younger brother became addicted to it. Finaly my mom had to take it away from him. He has never been the same since.

Better than empire earth...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Many reviewers have made mention of the civ games and certainly there is an element of that you don't find in almost any other RTS that is not a reason to buy this. It's my belief and i could be wrong that this is the first microsoft RTS to span the whole epoch of human history. AOE was limited to certain eras starting obviously with ancient civilizations in AOE 1 but empire earth came out with a game that spans them all and that is the main object of this game.

In this game you could literally start at the stone age and advance all the way to the space age. A skirmish can begin in any era you want so C&C fans like me can only play a modern game. I like that.

This has been called the thinking man's RTS but that doesn't mean other great RTS games are mere not sophisticated enough. Most people simply don't have the hours of time available to understand every nuance of a game. Most of the time you just want to play, gather money-resources, build an army and go. This unit counters or is vulnerable that unit. C&C games are that way. I would have never complained that RTS games are not sophisticated enough.

The good thing about RON is that it takes little time and resource to get an army up and rolling. Right away you can make various plants for creating various units. The units themselves look ok but not a sharp and clean as in generals but good. Buildings are the same way. The maps and terrain look fantastic.

Pros:
You can fight in any age.
Great skirmish maps
Full variety of military units available-ground-air-naval
Huge variety of upgrades and technologies.
You can build a sizable military very quickly.
Civ type feature adds another element not found in other RTS.

Cons:
Games take too long, often hard to finish an opponent. Somtimes as little as 30 units and a few defensive structures can hold off an opponent until reinforcements arrive.

Game takes longer to learn than most RTS.
Poor or nonexistent single player campaign

Overall this is a solid RTS and a great value. My second fav RTS to C&C generals and a game i like more than empire earth 2 or warcraft 3. If you take the time to learn it you will get your investment repaid many times over..

clumsy game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

One second, there is too much to do. The next, you are waiting around to collect a resource to research or build something. Citizens needing to be told to go to work when there are open slots at your mines or woodcutting area is tedious and not fun. Having to research at seven different buildings instead on a single area is a poor idea. The AI does not need to search to find just the right building (which all look very similar) to study something, so why should the player?

At the easiest, slowest setting, the player should be able to learn and crush the opposition, but even then, you are struggling to keep the AI out of your cities. Not much fun. Perhaps if you have been playing Warcraft or another real time strategy game for ten years, this is all second nature. But for a newbie, this is more like work than play.

Boring, but good presentation.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Rise of Nations does not have a storyline. It is a strategy game in which it is YOUR job to pick everything. Any missions out there are only for learning.

This game is a little boring after a while, however the game itself has a splendid presentation and good music. it is nice just to sit back, relax, and listen to the music.

Best Computer Game I have ever owned!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks!! I can play it for hours and never get bored. You can choose from a huge number of places and ages to have a battle in. I've owned it for over 2 years and I'm still not tired of it. If your looking for an awesome strategy game, this is for you!!!

I didn't Get the idea of this game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Must say i played it for a day and never played again. I really didn't understand the storyline of this game, if it has one. Every campaign has only one map and mission. They just put you in a map to gather resources, develop your forces with endless upgrades and destroy the enemy. There is no more objectives in this game. For me this is like playing always in skirmish mode. Age of Empire was better.

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.

Finally, a RTS game for the slow clickers out there....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: September 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are a frustrated RTS gamer who is sick and tired of playing the uber-clickers out there who love to send an unstoppable army into your home base 40 seconds into the game, then this is the game for you. RoN is a game that actually makes it OK to focus on building a balanced civilization through the use of attrition damage and borders. Granted, folks have figured out how to rush in this game, but it is much more tricky, and much more risky.

The game is certainly complex, but after getting through 6 or so games it starts to become much easier. There is a dizzying amount of unique civilizations to choose from. Each one has it's own unique units and unique civ powers. This adds to replay value of the game as you'll want to try out many civs to get a taste of their unique units and abilities.

A ton has already been said about this game, so I'll cut this short. Bottom line - it's a defining RTS game. One other reviewer got it right when he said that it's a cross between Civilization and Age of Empires. That my friend is good company to be with!

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