In the early eras you would only have to worry about food, gold and wood, but eventually knowledge, metal and oil would need to be gathered.

Just like in Civilization, bringing a horse to a tank fight was not wise.Д®ach time you age up, new resources and units became available. With the British, instead of having regular archers at one point, they would have enhanced longbow men instead. Instead of making use of the standard version of a unit type, the civs can have unique versions based on their history.

Each civ hadВ two big differences: unique units and passive bonuses. Speaking of civilizations, you can play as a variety of different civilizations. What's important is that just like in Civilization your strategies hinge on not only what age you were at but your opponents' age as well. You could choose different ages or time periods to start your game at - From the days of fighting with sticks and stones all the way up to modern day with planes, tanks and nukes.

Keeping with the style of Civilization, the goal on a Rise of Nations map was to take over and the game featured many brilliant ideas that made it like a real time version of Civilization. Rise of Nations was created by Big Huge Games and designed by Brian Reynolds who previously worked at Firaxis developing the Civilization games and Alpha Centauri. Yet when I think about my favorite RTS and the one that did so much right, Rise of Nations takes the crown with mechanics that to this day should have been seen in other strategy games.

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