Rise Of Nations Gold Edition

www.games-x.info - 2009

Rise of Nations might resemble Microsoft's Age of Empires games at a glance--like other, similar games, it has a host of different civilizations (18, to be exact), each with unique bonuses and four to five unique units. But beyond that, the game has a lot of depth, more so than other real-time strategy games, thanks to novel concepts such as national borders, city assimilation, and more. While these new features might seem foreign to real-time strategy players, fans of Brian Reynolds' turn-based strategy games should know them well.

Unlike in other turn-based games, in Rise of Nations, cities are a focal part of your strategy. Each of your cities has a radius around it that constitutes your national border. You can build other buildings only within your borders, and you can build only a limited number of different improvements for each city (such as a maximum of five farms each). Since expanding your empire depends entirely on your cities, the game makes you think harder about how and where you should expand. This focus on cities also means that each one will become a distinct community, with its own farms, temples, universities, and so on--actual cities will populate your empire, unlike in other real-time strategy games, where most of your structures are at your main base, while your additional town halls exist in isolation near some resources.

Expansion packs are often built around themes. Sometimes it's a series of campaigns on a particular subject or a bunch of new units or perhaps an entire new race. Thrones & Patriots, on the other hand, doesn't bother with any of that nonsense. It appears the team at Big Huge Games looked at the original Rise of Nations and decided that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. They just threw a whole bunch of new stuff into the game, including new civilizations, new campaigns, and some new gameplay mechanics. In lesser hands, that could have turned into a random mishmash of unbalanced "features" that messed up a perfectly wonderful game. Thrones & Patriots, though, is a wonderful, well-integrated collection of additions that makes an incredible game even better.

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