Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (PC, 2006)

this is a strategy game. unlike many other games. this game has it own uniquie resource gathering. and supply depot ( population use ). town center upgrades.
unit barracks.

it is a very interest game i could say. but there are also something bad about. the cartoony look of the units and buildings. the slow resource gathering.

i could still remember the first time i played this game. the resources are separated into 2. mines and glory ( or you could call it cash or whatever you want. i don't know what it is called ) . you could use 6 miners on each mines.
and for glory. they are gained by beetles. beetles will constantly fly to your castle and get you glory. the more you will the faster you will get. but each level of town center have different units, beetles, upgrade limits.

upgrade town center is by building a specific building. and other buildings other than barracks. they are mostly use to give you more population limit. and strengthen your units.

this game you could also capture cities. and vult ( i forgot how to spell it. let us just call it safes ) capturing a city can expand your territory. which give you more room to build on also more mines. a safe is for mines, sometime for other stuff. they are very usful so don't lose them.

units are built by barracks. each race have 3 different barrack. the 3rd barrack can produce the strongest units which they are very expansive. only the weakest units are in groups when they come out. other units are individuals when they are summoned. 1 strong unit can beat serval weak units. or even stand up against a hero for a while but not for a very long time.

there are also heros. heros are very strong. could also use magic and summon units. hero is basicly used as a shield to protect your units during an assult or a defense. you could also use hero to mess around with other players. hero can not be killed easily the higher level it is. the stronger it is.


AI the computer is killed. last time i lasted about 3 hour + against 5 computer players. well i quit because i got bored. due to the slow money. and the aggressive enemy.


enemy castle ( fortress ) is also capturable. just kill all the enemy units around their castle. and stay there for a while . the castle will turn into yours.

there are some seiging units they are long ranged units with a slow attack rate. but really far range.


never tried multipleplayer . i heard that the latest patch have messed up multipleplayer mode. there is a major error. but they should be fixed now. or by the end of this year.


well after all it is a ok game. not worth it to buy it in best buy, or eb games or target. really not worth it. besides ebay is way cheaper!!!
you could give it a shot

aleast 1 gb ram is good for playing this game

This role playing game with multiplayer capability has great graphics. I love playing this game in the multiplayer aspect over a local network. The main problem with the game is that the connection is often lost between us, which is rarely occurs when we play other multiplayer games. In multiplayer mode you can win dominance over different things such as army by having big army first. The dominances give you spells that help you. You can capture neutral cities and make them bigger. The most important part of the multiplayer strategy is keeping up your tinomium levels, so you can afford to build more building, research labs, and recruit more troops.

It is a very good strategy game, however it is not nearly as complex as the rise of nations that i know and love(thrones and patriots). it still has every aspect of a great rts, Big Huge games makes some of the best real time strategy games that I have ever played. It was just disappointing how there was only three different nations, and the fact that you cant just build a city wherever you want to gets a little annoying. All in all a great game, definitely worth the $15 I payed for it.

They've really done a lot to make this game something new. Granted it's from 2006 or something, but as far as I can tell it's the RTS state of the art. Gameplay is really different across races. They've integrated some character building (a la RPG) into the campaigns. My only complaint is that it doesn't run particularly well on my computer. I think it's because my graphics card is on-board.

I liked it alot it gave me a differnet take on sim games, sorta like age of mythology but better, I am a big sim type player and loved this game, graphics are ok, at the price you can get it now, I would say go for it.