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I didn't Get the idea of this game.
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.

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Ok Game
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.

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