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Found a new nation and nurture it through the ages to dominate the world in this real-time strategy game from the co-creator of the Civilization series. The Big Huge Games studio was founded by Brian Reynolds, lead designer of Sid Meier's Civilization II and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, who applies his nearly peerless empire-building strategy expertise to this Age of Empires-style RTS. Though military conquest is certainly an effective method of global domination, the game is designed such that civic and diplomatic development are equally important, and offer alternate means to ultimate victory.<br><br>Rise of Nations strives to take only the most enjoyable elements of real-time strategy games and apply these in a new way. As in many turn-based strategy games (and also the 2001 sleeper RTS Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns), resources in Rise of Nations are constituent features of the land, as opposed to discrete mines and forests to be exploited and forgotten. Claim a resource by claiming the territory in which it lies. The player improves collection rates not by assigning more workers, but by advancing technologically and constructing better processing facilities in the nearby cities.<br><br>The inherent complexity of Rise of Nations is balanced by its artificial intelligence. For example, unlike the peons or peasants in many other real-time strategies, the worker units in this game are designed to seek out new jobs when they finish a project, looking for resources to collect, repairs to make, or buildings to erect or improve. The player does not need to constantly check worksites, or click an "idle peasant" button to keep the workforce at work. Other strategic elements may be similarly managed by auto-government, though the player always has the option of delving in for hands-on control of any aspect of play. <br><br>The player's faction stakes its claim to history as it establishes its first city, which also sets borders that define the nation's territory. Good civic management encourages stability and growth and as additional cities are founded, the borders expand. When the borders of growing nations begin to squeeze up next to one another, diplomatic negotiation and military might become crucial as well. There is great profit to be made in trade, and a neighboring country may be a useful ally, but the wisest state acts in its own long-term best interests first. Strike the right balance of civic infrastructure, diplomatic influence, and military support. Eventually, the wise ruler will lead the nation to rise through eight eras of development, from sticks and stones to nuclear warheads, enduring, out-negotiating, and overpowering the competition.Product Identifiers
PublisherMicrosoft
UPC0805529209091, 0805529209114, 5017783024296
eBay Product ID (ePID)6474883
Product Key Features
RatingT-Teen
GenreStrategy
PlatformPC
Game NameRise of Nations
Additional Product Features
Release Year2003
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
Control ElementsMouse, Keyboard
ESRB DescriptorBlood and Gore, Violence
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- Dec 28, 2016
Rise of Nations - Windows 7
While being an older game, I had never played it. I continue to replay Age of Empires and Age of Kings quite bit for fun. So I thought I'd get a little more modern game of sorts, and I like these types of games. No pressure most of the time to rush into things. I have a series of Ghost Recon, and I have Shogun, and some Tomb Raiders, but enjoy things like Age of Empires setup. I received this game and was having issues with it on Windows 7 32bit system. After a couple days of research on why my game wouldn't play, but install ok it seemed, just would not play...I found an item about an update installed that was the issue. It turned out that KB3082655 if installed is the issue. I removed that update, and the games seems to work just fine now. So...for what it is worth to anyone finally buying this game, late as it may be like me, and has issues with Windows 7 32bit, or 64bit, perhaps that KB is the issue. Remove it and perhaps you'll be having fun such as myself now. From what I can say so far, and only playing a learning game, there is a fair difference in how to achieve things like in Age of Empires, and selecting buildings to build, advancements and troop building, but surely with more practice it all become natural. I look forward to playing it some more, but thing was to share my problem about it not working at all at first. Hope it helpsVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Jul 18, 2017
good game
Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Jul 13, 2016
It didn't work
I tried on 4 different computers and tried everything to fix it but the game just wouldn't work.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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