Rise of Nations for Windows

Pros: Addicting Gameplay, Advance through time, Many different countries and units
Cons: Conquer the World Campaigns are extremely time consuming, the early ages are almost irrelevant

If any of you reading this review have played Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, or any Realtime Strategy Game, you can understand the basic concept of Rise of Nations. Even through it is quite similar to the previous two games mentioned above ...

Pros: It's a fun game with a great strategy engine.
Cons: There are some bugs in the Multi-Player system. I had higher expectations for something original.

Rise Of Nations is a very user friendly game and easy to learn. Microsoft & Big huge games have followed EA (Electronic Arts) with its Rise of Nations with regard to game engines. Most games are either real-time or turn based. Around ...

Pros: Quite possibly the best RTS ever
Cons: Some might not like the lack of story in the campaign, worker AI issues.

I like learning about history; I was a history major in college and I pursued an additional interdisciplinary program in Medieval and Renaissance studies. I have also been known to enjoy documentaries on a wide variety of subjects. I also enjoy video...

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For years, I’ve played Age of Empires. I won’t go into the details of Age of Empires here since this is a review of Rise of Nations except to say that the two games are very similar. If you have Age of Empires, you’re probably asking why ...

Pros: A well designed RTS game which has plenty to do.
Cons: There are some minor niggles which become apparant during play.

Rise of Nations (or RON as it shall from hereon in be known as) is a real time strategy game, written by big huge games with support from microsoft. This explains the idea for the rather obscure title for this review. As you probably expect from this ...

Pros: In depth gameplay, good graphics for RTS game, lots of units and nations
Cons: can be difficult to learn if you have no experience with RTS

I've always been a fan of real-time strategy games, especially Microsoft's Age of Empires series. I ...

Pros: Graphics, some revolutionary strategy ideas, "looks good on paper".
Cons: Not truly RTS, micromanagement, every game ends up being the same.

Rise of Nations has undoubtedly received glamorous reviews and has, on occasion, been claimed possibly the best RTS ever. After waiting quite some time, I have decided to stop waiting and try the game for myself. After playing the game, however, I have ...

Pros: Great gameplay! Amazing details! Unprecedented depth!
Cons: No storyline and lack of single player depth

Rise of Nations (RoN) is an ambitious undertaking that tries to combine RTS elements along with Turned-Based elements to create a game that spans all of human history which can be played in one hour at the most. While this may seem crazy this game ...

Pros: Great Animations and nukes.
Cons: Nothing new that we did not see in Empire Earth.

Grand armies clash with the fate of a nation in the balance in Rise of Nations, the latest Real Time Strategy game based on the popular Age of Empires engine. Players select a nation and difficulty setting then race to explore, research, build, a ...

Pros: Good Graphics, gameplay, realistic, advances to present day
Cons: maps should be bigger

Rise of Nations is a Real-Time-Strategy game that has awesome graphics, wonderful audio, and a lot o ...

Pros: Quick action,total warfare,great graphics and gameplay fun
Cons: some bugs must have special 16MB 3D card

Rise of nations is a awesome War-strategy game. A best game from gamespy. In this game you can maste ...

Pros: one of the good RTS games you can get.
Cons: Sometimes it gets boring but set the options correctly and you will be good.

This is the best RTS game Microsoft ever produced.This has a very good strategy engine and good graphics. Its no surprise that this is similar to most RTS games but the feel is different. The one thing about this game that i like is its flow.you start ...

Pros: Awesome map textures, units are powerful, fun to play quick or long games
Cons: maps are too small, resources never run out, Smart citizen function a pain sometimes

I love real time strategy games, I started playing Empire Earth which is still one of my top favorites, Rise of Nations is a close tie to it. The game play of both is very similar, collect resources, build up armies and advance your technology until you ...

Pros: graphics and different modes of play
Cons: its a little old

Whats good about the singleplayer? Well i like single player so that i can train for the multi-player experience. You can customize the difficulty that the enemy plays at. This makes me alot better before playing a battle one on one with an ...

Pros: The A.I., great mechanics
Cons: Only one solo player mode

I used to be a fan of Warcraft...used to be. Microsoft's and Big Huge Game's "Rise of Nations" is a ...