Rise of Nations

On 2005-03-08 20:04:51 -0500, e c smith said:

 > Any thoughts?
 > I've been looking for a post on this.

Rise of Nations is a great RTS game. It works well on my 1 Ghz 12"
Powerbook, and with a patch it also works on my old DP/450. Better than
on my PC, actually. You need at least 512M though.

It's very replayable (many tweakable parameters, countries, units,
techs, and timelines) and a lot of fun. I think that the city-building
aspect is overblown. It's not so much like Civ as they claim. Civ 2 is
still a better strategy game with many more paths of tech investment
(Civ 3 sucks, IMHO). But there is a lot of stuff going on, many
different civilizations to play which are different and yet fairly
balanced. The AI is not stellar, but I don't know any RTS game where it
is.

The campaign modes are not as good as the quick battle modes, although
they are interesting.

I could go on, but my advice is just to get it.