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Review from Anonymous
Time July 30, 2010 at 11:52 am

This game is awful .you might like it for the first sevral games but it gets old after awhile. Every game is about the same. After you get the later technologies you just build a thousand missle silos and nuke the enemies until they get a missle shield and nobody ever wins
Rating: 1 / 5

Review from Ora B. Stallard
Time July 30, 2010 at 1:54 pm

OK! I am a strategy game fan. This game fell way below my expectations. The technologies you can research and create are nowhere near as good as Empire Earths’s. The game is slow to load, and slow to unload compared to other PC games. I’m guessing that the organizations that picked this dog for PC game of the year were paid off. The one and only feature that this game has that I liked is that there are no priests, or wizards, to create disasters that wreak havoc on your forces. I got $2.00 when I sold this cow to a used game store and was glad to get rid of it.
Rating: 1 / 5

Review from R. MacNaughten
Time July 30, 2010 at 4:38 pm

This game is impossible. Why bother making it if it’s impossible. One unit of a certain type could easily wipe oot a whole frickin’ army of another! OCH!!!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5

Review from Arthur P. Scott
Time July 30, 2010 at 5:14 pm

I would implore those reading this to think of buying this NOT so much for Rise of Nations as they would for buying Rise of Legends, with a throw in of the old “Rise of Nations.” Rise of Nations, frankly, wasn’t all that great. It wasn’t much fun, and indeed was no more than a Microsoft knock off of the Age of Empires series.

Rise of Legends, however, gives you a completely different experience. There are no nukes, three completely different sides, all with different tactics needed, interesting tech trees, a far more interesting economy than Rise of Nations–in fact, if you can get “Rise of Legends” from gogamer.com (if they get it back in stock or if you can find it on a “$5.99 Crystal Only” shelf somewhere). Rise of Legends is a tremendous game and an even better long term multiplayer game. So If you’re considering buying this, I would suggest you think of yourself as buying Rise of Legends with Rise of Nations thrown in as an extra, not the other way around. In all of the reviews I read, people review Rise of Nations. Nobody seemed to review “Rise of Legends” where you’re given four “Heros” each of which goes up in level, rises in power, can certainly turn the tide of battle and in certain cases (especially with airborn heroes) can occasionally take smaller locations by themselves. It’s a vastly different game from Rise of Nations. That’s why I rated this 4/4–because it included Rise of Nations. If it were “Rise of Legends alone it would have received a 5 of 5. Here it’s a year later and much like Supreme Commander, I STILL play Rise of Legends multiplayer with my friends via Skype. If you can, as I said earlier, try to get Rise of Legends itself and skip Rise of Nations completely, unless you’ve never played any of the Age of Empires games in which case it’s barely worthwhile. But if you want to reach THAT far back in gaming history, find a system that will run the two Kohan games and skip the whole “Age of” series. I would also recommend Majesty and the Majesty:Northern Expansion, both of which have been on my hard drive for eight years now.
Rating: 4 / 5

Review from Marshall L. Merrill
Time July 30, 2010 at 8:01 pm

This is a 3d-that-looks-more-like-2d prequel to Age of Empires, the game play is fun, though a bit klunky. Good tutorial, and fun if you’d like an AoE sidekick, with a similar though not very eye-popping interface.
Rating: 3 / 5