Rise of Nations Gold Description:

Rise of Nations Gold review:
5 stars (The best pc game I've played) - This game is fantastic I really like all the different ages. It makes it so much more fun then just being in one particuler period of time. The Ages are Ancient(10,000BC-200BC)Classical(200BC-500AD) Medieval(500-1200)Gunpowder(1200-1650)Enlightenment(1650-1875)Industrial(1875-1930)Modern(1930-1980) and Information(1980-present).

You can also fight with an extremely wide varitey of units, anywhere from phlanxs, archers, cavalry, javalineers, and catapults to infantry machine guns, bazookas, tanks, battleships,stealth bombers(one of my favorite), fighters and even (drumroll please)nukes and much more!!

The game is a little complicated but not to complicated. Instead of just one source of money you have 6; food, wood, metal,wealth, knowledge, and sometimes oil. To get all of these things you'll need to build citizens and put them to work at farms mines etc. All of these used for different types of things. For example knowledge is used for age advancement and wood is used for buldings and units.

The absolute best thing about the game is the different campaigns:



Alexander the Great- 8/10 Try and take over the known world of the classical age including the Romans, Egyptions, Persians, and Indians. Also do the thing I most like about campaign the real historical battles.



Napolian- 7/10 Try and take over Europe in the Enlightenment Age with Napolian and become emporor of a continent. Again do historical battles.



The New World- 7/10 Try and take over North and South America in the gunpowder/enlightenment age as a Europian nation; English, Spanish etc. an Indian nation Iriquis, Aztecs, etc. or the Americans.



The Cold War- 9/10 The best campaign. Be the Americans or Soviets in the modern/information age. Control The Nado and Warsaw Pacts. Purchase Nukes. Win an economic or war victory(although if the americans and soviets go to war there will be nuclear annilation)also conquer as much of world as you can.



The Entire World- 5/10 Fun at first but gets boring. Be any nation and try and conquer the world. Starts Ancient age ends Information age. The really bad thing about this campaign is the lack of varity of battles you'll find yourself doing the same thing over and over.



Overall a great game also for a great price 25$.


5 stars (Rise of Nations Gold: Best RTS Game?) - Let me start off by saying this game is great, it has its flaws like any other, but overall it is better than most anything out there. Its got the thrill of a war game, with the fun of a strategic civilization bulding game, with some nice graphics to go along with it.



GRAPHICS:

-The graphics in RON Gold are about what you would expect for a game of this genre. The attention to detail, however, is highly unique. Each civilization type has its own appropriate building designs. Each troop type has its own distinct look, and the same troop types of different nations vary in looks. Overall, I give the graphics a 9/10.



SOUND:

-I have to say, I find the sound for this game amazing. The range of gunfire, swordfights, jets, nukes, missiles, even the sound of hammers as civilians construct buildings is overwhelmingly great. The sounds are also in sync with the game, on certain other rts games, the sound is a bit off, but not here! Along with the actual gameplay sounds, there is music, and built in phrases that you can access by typing in a number in the chat window. Each number corresponds to a different phrase. Ex. 100=They keep on rising!...28=Of course you realize, this means war!. Overall I give the sound on this game a 10/10.



GAMEPLAY:

-Rise of Nations Gold has by far the best game play of its genre. Very smooth gameplay, thrilling battles, and most importantly it is fun! As far as your troops go, they each have their own individual lives, so if your army clashes with your opponents army, the battle could come down to one troop. Overall I give the Gameply a 10/10.



REPLAYABILITY:

-The many game types of Rise of Nations will keep you busy for awhile. There is Conquer the World, in which you choose a nation and battle to control the entire earth. There is Quick Battle in which you control a nation on one single map and develop your nation into an economical powerhouse, or a military superpower, or both! Even within the different game types there are many many many different options of game types, such as within quick battle, you can choose to play deathmatch, raid, economic race, barbarians at the gate, etc. However, once you do everything in the game, it will become a bit tedious. But it will take months upon months before you do everything. Overall I give Replayability a 6/10.





MONEY VALUE:

-This game is highly worth the money. It is infact in my opinion a huge bargain. I HIGHLY recommend you buy this game as soon as you can. You will not be disappointed. I rate money value 10/10.



OVERALL:

- Overall, this is the best game in its genre, nothing can top it. It has won game of the year honors from many different organizations and magazines. As they have all rated it before, I give this game an overall rating of 10/10.



--Thanks for Reading my Review. Happy Gaming!
4 stars (Rise of Nations Friend AND Foe) - R of N is one of the most historically accurate strategy games focusing on more than a single culture. You can take one civilization and move it through all the different ages of the world, from ancient age to the high tech information age. Even better is the actual gameplay. As usual, though, it takes too long to load on some PCs.