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Rise of Nations

Rise of Nations is a real-time strategy game that spans all history.
Start with a single city in the Ancient Age; gather resources; build an infrastructure; research technologies; construct Wonders of the World such as the Pyramids and the Eiffel Tower; and expand your military might across the world, conquering hostile nations with bombers, battleships, and tanks—all over your lunch hour!

In Rise of Nations there are:

18 Nations—each with special abilities and unique military units.
Over a hundred military units operating on the ground, sea, and air— from Hoplites to Frigates to Helicopters.
Over two dozen buildings with upgrades and technologies that will take your nation from a small City to an Information Age society.
14 Wonders of the World—the Terra Cotta Army, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower. Each gives your nation special bonuses.
More than a dozen map types, ranging from the Amazon Rainforest to the Himalayas to the Nile Delta.
Conquer the World campaign—a linked series of dozens of scenarios.

The Extended Edition includes:

Rise of Nations
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots

New in the Extended Edition:

Improved Visuals
- Improved water
- Improved textures
- Full-screen anti-aliasing
Full Steamworks Integration
- Multiplayer with ranked matches (ELO)
- Achievements
- Trading Cards
- Cloud saves
Extended Features
- Twitch Integration

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows Vista, 7, 8.1+
Processor: 1.6
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Direct X 10+ Capable GPU
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 3 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X Compatible Sound Card
Additional Notes: GPU at least (Integrated HD 3000, 8600GT, etc)

Recommended:

OS: Windows 7, 8.1+
Processor: 2.6 Ghz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Direct X 11+
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 5 GB available space
Additional Notes: GeForce 9800GTX, Radeon 4850+

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kapdin_chewy

12 products in account

2 reviews

Posted: September 13

probably one of the best rts games even though it was made in 2003 and i have found it to never get old

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★ Bartes ★

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46 reviews

Posted: September 21

Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

The game from my childhood and the only strategy that I love to play even now. This is a remastered version of the game from 2003 and one of the most popular strategic games. Extended Edition contains the full contents with the addition of Thrones and Patriots. Rise of Nations offers a lot of nice campaign where our goal is to lead our nation to dominate the world. During the game you have to take care not to be destroyed by other nations but also develop a number of aspects such as economy, science, technology, diplomacy and military power. Each of these aspects will give you the opportunity to develop troops, build new buildings and to develop new opportunities in old buildings, but also move to a new era. With each progression of the game is changing the look and statistics buildings, military units and other things. Each nation has its own unique army as long as the nation still exists. In the game to expand, we have to use wood, stone, food, science, and oil at a later stage of the game, not forgetting that each of these resources can run out of. There is also an advanced diplomacy through which you can contain very beneficial agreement with other nation. In the game you can also play scenarios and multiplayer, but only with friends because no one plays. The game in terms of gameplay has hardly changed, improved graphics and added more resolution size. I like this production and do not regret a single hour spent at the game. Great soundtrack, an old but still nice graphics and a lot of things to do while playing the game. In my opinion this is the best strategy game I've ever played, many hours of fun for me. The game I am able to recommend, however, the game also has a bug that irritated me at first because I could not change my resolution because the game was crashing. However, it was manageable change in a text file.

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Lucas

238 products in account

11 reviews

Posted: September 28

A timeless masterpiece for people who love to bully others.

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f_roseberry

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1 review

Posted: September 27

Awesome game. A must-play for RTS fans. Age of Empires style

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Ted Cruz

39 products in account

4 reviews

Posted: September 30

Played it when I was 13 and ♥♥♥♥ing loved it.
played it again when I was 21 and ♥♥♥♥ing loved it.

One of those very rare 10/10 RTS games,

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Viral

1,883 products in account

6 reviews

Posted: September 24

You are an RTS fan, but don't have this game yet? Then you are not an RTS fan!

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Mad Scientist

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12 reviews

Posted: September 24

One of my Childhood game

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Cheese

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9 reviews

Posted: September 25

Been playing this game and many others like it for a very long time and I have alwasy enjoyed them a ton. I hope to see some new games coming out with this kind of style but I don't know if ill follow them. I've been getting into survival games recenlty and have been enjoying them a ton. If you like them aswell I'd head on over and try out miscreated, it the new and better DayZ. Got off topic there at the end but whatever, I hope i helped.

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Little Miss SuZie

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1 review

Posted: September 26

Brilliant multiplayer game

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RedEye

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Posted: September 11

RoN is a classic; even after all these years, it's still quite enjoyable.

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Posted: October 10

What happens when you combine the fine-tuned RTS mechanics of AOE + the scope, grandeur and refinement of Civilization?

The greatest game of its kind.

10/10

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Posted: October 10

> Hmm. Give me about 1000 more oil.
> It's a good offer, but not a great offer. give me about 1000 more oil.
> Not quite good enough, give me about 1000 more oil.
> If you try but a little harder, I'm sure we can reach an agreement. Give me about 1000 more oil.
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> If you could see your way clear to just a little more.. Give me about 1000 more oil.
> You're getting warmer, Give me about 1000 more oil.

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Posted: October 9

Got steamrolled (almost literally) by the German Panzers.

RIP my musketmen.

Tip: Never play as China on hard.

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Posted: October 9

This is truly awesome.
The only disappointing thing is that the musics are cut off sometimes
9/10

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Posted: October 8

A realy good game totaly worth buying it! the replay creates a new match on its own. so its two games for the price of one!

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Posted: October 8

For me this is a marvellous game. Its core is an extremely good RTS, reasonably complex, demanding and extremely well assembled and presented.
But it goes further than that. A lot further. The range of options within the standard game is huge and difficulty level can be set from 1 - 6, which makes it very replayable. What makes it even more replayable though is the facility to randomly select a nation from a worldwide range and then take on all the others, carefully picking them off one after another. The range of options then is bordering on infinite. I've been playing it far too often for 8 years now and still love it. Yes, I know I need to get out more, but.....

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Posted: October 8

Mouse was stuck in the upper left corner for the first month.... today, I tried to play any world conquer campaign and was rewarded with a crash to desktop.
Original boxed game worlds perfectly fine. If you can't prevent adding a ♥♥♥♥♥on of bugs by basically just integrating steam support, then you should be cleaning toilets instead of programming. Go ♥♥♥♥ yourself, skybox.

Don't buy this ♥♥♥♥.

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Posted: October 7

THE best RTS game i ever played, its old but gold! I highly reccomend this game.

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Posted: October 6

It is a great return of an epic game!

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Posted: October 5

I have not been able to play this game as it causes blue screens (which is and abrupt and complete halt of your operating system which will make you lose any unsaved work you had).

My setup is gtx670 i7-3770k win10. At first when in game I would adjust with full screen and windowed setting (because sometimes I like to play in short lapses and quickly switch windows to do some other task). Default resolution that came up when the game started was a small resolution compared to 1920x1080 so I wanted to adjust because it would otherwise look pixelated. Upon saving game settings and applying the settings the game would cause blue screen. This was reproduced everytime until the game would just cause blue screen right on load after the intro videos.

I requested a refund and this was my reply:

Steam
to me
Oct 3
Steam
Hello BluZer0
We have reviewed your refund request.
We are unable to refund this purchase to your Steam Wallet at this time. Your playtime of an included product exceeds 2 hours (our refund policy maximum).

Rise of Nations: Extended Edition - Playtime: 9 hours 14 minutes

Purchased: Sep 28, 2016 PDT
Requests are considered on a case by case basis and are not typically issued for purchases of released products that are more than 14 days old, or if the purchased product has more than 2 hours of playtime. For in-game items the refund period is 48 hours and the item must not have been consumed, modified, or transferred.

To learn more about the refund process, please visit http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

The Steam Support Team
https://help.steampowered.com/

Which I don't know what in their legal minds mean to them, but to me it just translates into "You get 9 hours and 14 minutes (or less that half a day) of incomplete and buggy game play of Rise of Nations for $19.99" or maybe "f*You, I slap you in the face, take your money and laugh at you with a bureaucratic email response" in a not so polite way.

So this is my honest review and experience with this game and the steam/microsoft refund system.

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