Rise Of Nations

by ValuSoft

Product Features

• Play on a realistic map of the world and expand your nation by conquering one at a time, in exciting wartime strategy action
• Research over 50 different technologies and show off the superiority of your civilization, as you build Wonders Of The World
• Use a combination of military strength, technological development, diplomacy, trade and espionage to create a world empire
• Stunning animation and effects as you experience 220 different unit types, and weapon effects from slingshots to nuclear detonations
• Streamlined multiplayer action for up to 8 players on a LAN or an Internet connection!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000J13GKQ
• Item Weight: 7.4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 8, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,544 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #24 in Video Games > PC Games > Action > Fighting

Product Description

Age Of Empires Collector’s Edition brings you the critically-acclaimed strategy game. Control 10,000 years of human history and rewrite it to suit you. Players are the guiding spirit in the evolution of small stone age tribes. Starting with minimal resources, players are challenged to build their tribes into great civilizations. Choose a nation and guide it to world domination!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smooth as silk to run, August 20, 2009

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Paul Emmons (West Chester, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Rise Of Nations (CD-ROM)

I agree with the other two reviewers that this is a fascinating game with excellent replay value. I tend to prefer turn-based strategy games. However, simple keystrokes can speed the game up, slow it down, or pause. Believe me, if you're caught in a three-front war on various small continents with lots of naval action as well, you'll appreciate the ability to pause frequently, even with the slowest speed selected.

Game programs have always "pushed the envelope" of whatever computer power and technology existed at the time of their release, mostly for the sake of graphics and other relatively frivolous reasons. They are therefore often ill-behaved, unreliable, plagued with bugs, and liable to become totally unusable when a later operating system comes along with little tolerance for older software that doesn't play by the rules. In this context, it is a relief to find a game that runs so smoothly as Rise of Nations, and never crashes. Perhaps its Microsoft imprimatur means that the authors have an unusually thorough understanding of Windows.

My only criticism is that, when saving games, it writes a large number of files in various directories all over the C: drive and provides no way to delete them. If your disk space is not infinite, be cautious.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Old but still good., January 7, 2010

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DarkLock "KG~" (FL) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Rise Of Nations (CD-ROM)

For $10 this deal is a pretty nice buy. I bought it and had a couple of friends pick it up to play over Lan/IP. I currently run a Windows XP Pro, and Vista PC's. WinXPPro had no issues at all with installing or updating this game, and plays very well. Windows Vista however does NOT like the Updater for this game, and as such, will not let you update to the latest version which fixes some online Multiplayer issues. HOWEVER, Copying the game files from an updated Windows XP PC will fix this problem. If you Try to update using vista, the entire game gets corrupted and has to be reinstalled(Vicious cycle anyone?), I have tried troubleshooting this by running in XP mode on vista, and running as administrator, even reading the Troubleshooting guide on the forums, but nothing seems to work, only copying the files from XP did the trick. Also, the game included on this disc(if the same as mine) is v1.3, which fixed issues from the initial release of this title, however the last update was v1.4., to which there is no manual patch, you must patch the game through the Updater in game(LAME yes I know.). However if you dont care to play online then there is nothing wrong with v1.3, as it runs flawlessly on any highend PC. However to play online your game must be updated to v1.4. All in all this title sports decent graphics, and has a pretty good AI, some of the Maps are HUGE, and the different civilizations you can choose from is a pretty long list each with a different set of cool bonuses. Hope my review helps you like it might have helped me.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Old, but still fun, April 9, 2009

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Zachary Schlieder (Sheboygan, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Rise Of Nations (CD-ROM)

I got this game along with some friends, and then played online multiplayer. I'm not normally an RTS fan, but I found this game fun, at least with friends. It's old, and friendly on the hardware, but is still entertaining. The basic premise of each match is to progress from the Stone Age to modern times and beyond. The progression keeps things interesting in multiplayer, and in singleplayer, the game introduces enough variations on this formula to keep things from getting too repetitive. I don't play many real-time strategy games, but this one is easy to get into without limiting more experienced players.
If you are looking for a fun distraction, pick this up. It's only $10.