Think Civilization borders, in real time. The basic focus in RoN is territory control. I will write much more here, this is simply my debut article. I am not a representative of the developers or publishers, simply a fan trying to spread the good word. After all, when you are overrunning camels in your T-80 tanks, there isn’t much time for other business.īefore I break down how the game plays, and why it is such a shining example of what a RTS can be, know that this article is being written because the Rise of Nations: Extended Edition launches this month on Steam (June 2014). We installed it that night, and again, almost caused a major incident by forgetting to open the store the next day. The important part was that the “stuff” was more, and who doesn’t love more “stuff”. We were like kids on Christmas morning, and we had no real idea what was coming in the expansion. Fast forward about a year, April 28th of 2004 to be exact, and the expansion Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriotsreleased. We both like to joke that we kept Big Huge Games (the developer of the game) in business based on the number of units we moved just from our store. We talked about it at the shop, we talked about it on the phone, we talked about it to people that came into the store. This is what we did instead of hitting bars, or clubs, or seeing the outside world after work. For the better part of the next few years, this was our go to game.
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That night, we played it for an hour or so, then another hour, then we looked at the clock and realized that the store was opening in just a few hours. It looked good enough - we enjoyed strategy titles - but we knew very little about it. I was working at GameStop at the time and my store manager and I decided to buy it. Rise of Nations launched May 20th of 2003. Long winded introductions out of the way, let me tell you about this gem that time almost forgot.
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In general, it is the first thing I install on a new hard drive or a new computer and it never leaves its comfortable spot on my desktop. It is the one game that I have played since launch, and still have installed on my computer. There are too many experiences out there for my short attention span to stick to one or two titles for long periods of time. I float from game to game, reveling in the initial experience, then move on before really digging into the juicy part of the game. I can’t count on one hand the number of games that I have completed, or played for more than a few weeks. My friends constantly chide me as a drifter in the video game world. I understand that Rise of Nationsis not a traditional strategy-sim in the same vein of games like Europa Universalis but it is worth your time to say the least.
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You are about to get a sales pitch, (an informative and honest one though) but you should read this all the way through anyways. Sadly, that is not what you are about to get. Hello dear readers! I am a new writer here at SimHQ and you are likely expecting a very simple, journalistic article as my first foray into writing on this site.