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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Microsoft EAN: 0882224136822 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: CD Label: Microsoft Software Manufacturer: Microsoft Software Model: U99-00063 Platform: Windows XP Publisher: Microsoft Software Release Date: May 16, 2006 Sales Rank: 1492 Studio: Microsoft Software
Features:
Guide a young inventor's struggle to unravel his world's ancient past and unite its people against an unimaginable threat
A clash between magic and technology seems inevitable -- but the players will soon uncover a grave threat to them both
Product Description: In Rise Of Nations: Rise Of Legend, you'll journey to the land of Aio, a world embroiled in an epic battle between the forces of Magic and Technology. Fight through towering cities, flame-swept deserts and brutal ice plains in battles filled with mystic creatures, impossible machines, and stunning acts of magic.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Another of Microsoft's unwanted stepchildren
The game is old enough to still come on a stack of CDs rather than a DVD, and the support for the game is dismal. Between Microsoft's lackluster marketing attempts, and the difficulty experienced by hundreds, including myself, to apply patches, this game was clearly an afterthought to Microsoft. The campaigns storyline is engaging, and the gameplay is a fun twist on a tired theme. The added gameplay elements manage to be complex without being complicated. Sadly, the storyline is halting and sporadic. The cut scenes feel ill timed and disruptive. It feels rushed, as if the production budget were cut. Between this and that the terrible support, this is a good title, but belongs in the bargain bin.
Rating: - I paid for this!!
Rise Of Nations: Rise of Legends is suppose to be a remake of the glorious rise of nations but Big Huge games failed. Basically the game comes down to moving your one army around to defeat the enemy.Almost every territory you invade is capture or destroy the enemy capital.Unit A.I. in my opinion is horrible some units get stuck or scatter when you ask them to move around mountain or city.There is not much strategy to the game either it merely consist of building a large army and attacking the enemy.In some cases you don't even have to do that each time you invade a territory you have a certain amount of units you start with, and in the beginning it is easy to destroy your enemy.The games graphics may b the only thing thats saves it. I do enjoy the building animations and the mist that occurs when you go to the top of a mountain.But this can only be viewed by med-To high end graphics cards. Anything below a geforce 5700 or ati 9550 may not be able to experience the full depth of the game.
The sound is average as with most games don't expect explosions to sound as if they were happening were your sitting.
In closing statements if you buy a game based on its looks then it is for you if you buy a game based on gameplay and looks buy something else.
Rating: - Awesome imaging real good game play.
You'll need a high end graphics card. If you turn the image quality in the game to maximum you'll see the intricate detail they've used to build this game. Lower end cards will work but you don't get the full 'picture'. Zoom action show intense high quality imaging.
Game play allows for the player to watch the action without the need to speed all over the map trying to reinforce armies.
Rating: - Microsoft you CAN trust
I am actually more Age of Empires 3 like rts fan and stay loyal to non sci-fi game plots with historical settings like colonization of america, ancient periods, but bought this ROL to tri something different for strategy fix. This game has tons of stuff to build like districts and research techno in labs. Visual effects and pirotecnics are spectacular, units from ground infantry and mechanic mobils to air support planes and dirigibles.
The multiplayer requered me to download a huge patches but after i loged online there were only 30 to 40 people !!! Thats terrible. Game is highly customizible. If you are tired of routine and want to immerse into some extraordinary fantastic future world a must buy. Maps are standard type, not a huge realms like of Warcraft. But this game is fun & engrossing !!! Dont be scared of learning teck trees unique to each race.
Rating: - Microsoft, It's Time To Move On
I really wanted to give this game a chance. I really did. It looked very nice visually in the screenshots released. But unfortunately there was an utter failure to deliver. The concept of one single linked city was nice. I'll give it that. However, the core mechanics of the game (units etc) were horrible. I would have to say they were even less creative than those of some of microsofts older games such as Age of Empires etc. So in addition to the game mechanics feeling clunky, they also felt outdated.
Basically, overall, the story wasn't that good, the units were uninteresting to say the least, and given the multitude of other options, and I really wish I could have had those hours back.
- Another of Microsoft's unwanted stepchildren
- I paid for this!!
- Awesome imaging real good game play. 
