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Rise of Nations
Common Sense Media says
Conquer the world with economic force and might.
Parents say
QUALITY
Kids say
QUALITY
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that although much of the game focuses on military conquest, it's presented in a somewhat historical context. The violence is always displayed in a non-gratuitous manner.
What's it about?
For teens who like to imagine themselves as the sometime ruler of the world, RISE OF NATIONS provides a way to experiment with strategy. The player's goal is to guide one of 18 great nations through a campaign to take over the world.
Rise of Nations combines the turn-based play of a board game like Risk, with the on-the-move excitement of a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game. In RTS mode the play is continuous, as both the player and the opponent build up resources and strategically attack each other's cities to control territory.
Is it any good?
The game some educational potential, offering specialized units and traits for each nation and following a rough timeline of national development from ancient times to modern ages. These elements could spark a player's interest in a particular nation's history, but the game doesn't take advantage of this by explaining the historical significance between the special units and that particular nation. From an entertainment aspect, the game performs admirably with artificial intelligence that offers multiple levels of difficulty. Players can use a multi-player option to challenge friends.
Although battles are shown fully animated, the violence is tempered by the player only having a bird's eye view rather than being fully immersed. In the end, Rise of Nations is a good game; from an entertainment point of view it is excellent. However, a little more effort could have given players not only an entertaining time, but also an educational one.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about world history. Encourage kids to learn more about the countries they get to know in the game.
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Great real time statagy game
By far one of the best. Fairly easy to use (a little harder later on in the ages but not too bad) and fun for hours and hours. Not gory like some of the other games though people do make death dances occasionally and scream or something but really not that disturbing. I agree with whoever rated it in the adult catagory with that it should be rated E.
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What were they thinking?
THIS IS A GREAT GAME FOR ALL AGES. PLAYERS ACTUALLY LEARN FROM THIS GAME!! You learn about countries, cultute, economics, strategy, and more. Everyone should play this game! CSM overrates everything!
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Great game of strategy
Great Game of learning and strategy.
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Great RTS
This is the greatest historical RTS on the market, and captures the distinct feels of the different cultures well. Recomended for both RTS and historical gaming fans.
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Wonderful!
This is a great game! Me, my cat (that's right,my cat),and my dad played this game. It would help boost imagination.
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Kid, 12 years old
April 2, 2010
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rise of nations (ron) is a very good game that makes you build your citys, and eventually building up your forces to fight. you have to get the hang of it first, because you have to research things before you can build things. for example you have to research military level 1, before you can build a barracks. the most educational thing is the concept of this: you start at a old age and research to get to new ages. just like star wars empire at war, you have full controll of your troops. troops range from battle ships to flamethrower guys, to bombers. you can choose a race to play as too, like china the US, and many indians. over all it is a six star game, but it only had five.
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Great strategy game.
Great game where you creat and build your own nation. Although the rating on the back of the box says t for "blood and gore" there is only blood. Great game for kids 10 or older. Advance through nations and be king!!!
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A Good RTS for Older Tweens and Teens
Rise of Nations is a game in which players represent different nations like Britain, Germany, China, Russia and many others. You can win by military domination or by other means such as building more 'Wonders of the World' than other nations, but just because you can win by peaceful means doesn't mean that you won't be fighting. During battle blood pools under dead people and animals but it's not gory and you only can see a battle from a bird's eye view. The game does require stagy to win.
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good for young teens
This game is fun and great. It has some violent battles but no blood. It has some history learn about and has a fun campaign to follow.
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| Platforms: | Windows |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Strategy |
| Developers: | Big Huge Games, Microsoft Studios |
| Release date: | September 30, 2003 |
| Price: | $49.99 |
| ESRB rating: | T |
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