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Summary: A great expansion for under $10!
Review: About all the expansion gives you, though, is more balanced gameplay. Not much new in graphics, playability, etc. Same stuff, different disc.
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Summary: Definately Worth The Money!!!
Review: Good Lord, this is an Awesome game!!!!
If you like strategy war games this is the game for you! It's "Age of Empires II" meets "Command and Conquer".
Buy it, you will not regret it!!!
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Summary: Great package, yet it would be nice if it had more
Review: I am a big fan of Rise of the Nations! I think it combines the best things of Civilization series and the Starcraft series... making me addicted to this darn game.
The expansion pack is great! It comes with great features that make the game more interesting:
1) More units, not puny ones, these new units really get the job done!
2) New civilizations... now you can represent even more countries. Even the Lakotas are there (who in the hell are the lakotas), never heard of them before in any other strategy game.
3) Additional campaings. Sometimes after playing a while, you get bored because you do the same campaings over and over again. With the new scenarios, be prepared to spend some time on the refreshed game.
4) Architecture perks, some new wonders of the world are added. There are only three of them.
By now, you might think that I am crazy for this expansion pack, I am. But I do also realize that there are setbacks. I think that for about 30 dollars, Microsoft could have done a better job. With the thousand programmers that Microsoft company has. Adding 20 units, 3 wonders, some new campaigns seems puny to me and the worst part is that it costs the same as the game itself (even when it involved less time and effort to make the expansion pack). So that is why I give this game a 4 star. Good, but not perfect. Maybe if the expansion pack costs $10 bucks, that would be perfect.
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Summary: Lots of bugs!, No one online to play!!
Review: I do love this game, it could have been great! There are a lot of bugs, and for a #1 best selling game you would think there are a ton of people online to play, but no at 9pm on a Friday night there are about 50 players online and half of them are just talking smack to each other. It is a shame that there is not more company support for this game. IT is a lot of fun to play once you get past the bugs and wait sometimes 25 min to get a game going. This is not like Battle net at all! IT just seams the game is lost.
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Summary: If the trial version is any indication this Xpack rocks
Review: I just downloaded the trial version and it's great. Definitely recommed Rise of Nations. The Xpack seems to be adding a lot of great new content - including the American nation
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Summary: Lots of new features, not quite enough to satisfy.
Review: I liked this game but I feel it is too biased and not historically accurate.
First of all, too much attention and bonus features is given to the Americans.
Also, the producers made the Persian nation too much powerful. Persia did not have any elephants. It was the Indians. and only Indians should have the elephants lineage. Also, the architecture style of persians and Indians is the same. Oh my goodness! It makes a lot of difference. There was no similarity in the architecture style of Indians and Persians.
They made the iroquois and the Indians very less powerful while the Persians and Americans the superpower.
And I believe, if I am correct, there was no "ancient age" for americans and no ages after Enlightnment for the native american nations.
In the new world campaign, the british capital is in eastern Canada. It was not the british. It was the french capital at canada. Do you find "Los Angeles" in canada while playing against Iroquios? It is ridiculus. And Seattle in Virginia?
I did find this in this campaign.
This game is also racist and biased.-- calling Lakota the "backward people" and iroquois the "barbarians" and Indians "the fragile people". I believe, Indians were one of the oldest civilizations on earth and had its unique architecture and army. They had the chariot which is not in the game. All this facts are correct. I looked these up in books and encyclopedias.
So in my opinion, you should nto waste your money to buy this expansion pack.
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Summary: So glad they made a great expansion
Review: I really loved Rise of Nations but I wanted more from the Conquer the World Single player. Thrones and Patriots delivers on this. Now the world map is playable in cool campaigns. What's nice is that I've actually learned some interesting things about Napoleans campaign (that's what I'm playing now) and I'm sure it is the same for the other campaigns as well. The new nations are great. They did some great art for the new civs like making native american archers, riders and cities made with tipis. It's also cool to play as the Americans and use the new capital building, it looks like the US capital. All the others are represented by cool new buildings and they allow for some cool new gameplay. To sum it up Thrones and Patriots does what a good Ex-pack should, it really expands the scope of play and content of an already cool game. It's also getting great reviews on all the game sites, which I checked before buying. Oh yeah, be sure to run the credits, they made a cool new song for this Ex-pack, it's really funny, but I still like the RON credits song the best.
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Summary: Hhmm just the same as any other strategic game mode..!!
Review: I was so looking forward to buying this game when it was put on the shelves here in New Zealand as I love playing games that make you think and strategies. But, now that I have brought it I now think that the money was not worth it and could have gone to a better game. My disappointment only is a reflection of my desire to buy a game that had great reviews to being disappointed when I had finally brought the game and played it and said, this is a remake from another game, but with different effects and characters.
But not to be negative about RON's, the visuals were top of the range and many other aspects of the game were top notch. But I am now thinking that the creators of such games have come to a stop. If you have already played games like Star Wars Galactic Battleground etc, then you might as well say you have played this game already.
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Summary: jumping into RoN with the expansion pack
Review: I'm a veteran off-line RTS player, but I never got around to trying Rise of Nations before now. So I bought the original and the expansion pack, and am reviewing them together. First thing, the install: I had to clear some space on my applications drive -- adding the two games took well more than a gig (most of my drive is formatted for linux). I'm running under Win98. But the install was flawless, and the program seems very stable. I've only managed to lock it up once in many hours of gameplay. Learning the game: There is a very handy "quick start" tutorial for people with previous RTS experience. The main difference with RoN from most games is the multitude of resources required. This is a big improvement over the traditional "food, wood, and gold". You start out needing food, wood, and wealth, but quickly you add requirements for metal and knowledge. Later you need oil. The other big resource is territory. The "national borders" concept is brilliant, because it makes territory a valuable resource. Normally a player can only expand territory by building new cities and forts on the edge of their existing territory. Sitting back and building a big tech base and army will not work, nor will a simple rushing strategy. The game demands balance. Playing the game: The game is very good at eliminating micromanagement of the citizens. However, there is still a fair amount of micromanagement of the soldiers to do. The game follows the usual pattern of requiring a mix of units (cavalry is good against archers, who are good against infantry, who are good against cavalry, etc.). Since these are supposed to be strategy games, it would be nice to be able to build a well-balanced army and leave it alone to fight optimally, but as usual the units all attack whoever is closest. This can lead to a massacre unless you do some intense battle micromanagement. Thrones and Patriots adds a great "library tech control bar" which allows you to see at a glance your main technical status. This is a big improvement over RoN. However, you still need to shift focus from one building to the next to upgrade your unit and building technologies. Thrones and Patriots also adds the "Patriot" general (not a big deal) and some new cultures (a little more varied in powers than the original set). But the big change is the addition of four new "Conquer The World" scenarios. The original "Conquer The World" is obviously based on the board game Risk, and is a unique melding of board game strategy with computer gameplay. It also makes for a nearly infinitely replayable campaign. But there is no plot element. The new scenarios use the same Risk-style play (position armies to contest territories) but add historical scenarios, such as Alexander The Great's conquest of Persia. The technology is limited to the time of the scenario. All in all, a very fun solo game. I recommend newcomers buy and install both the original game and the expansion pack, and jump right in with playing "Thrones and Patriots".
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Summary: awwwsome
Review: if there were 6 stars this game would get it. its soo cool. you have to get it. its no ur ordenary game,i've play age of empires, warcraft,and starcraft but, none of those games came close. theres only one thing I DON'T HAVE IT YET but i have played the trial and i can tell you this is worth every penny, you should get the trial first but after you play it you'll be begging ur mom for money
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