Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

13 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.

13 on sale2 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask

The 2 “not sold” markets are read from the Steam price pass of Sep 11: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price in those. The 13 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.

Hours played at review time, across 899 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

Unfortunately, the AI in this game is just really really really bad. This is probably the second worst RTS game of all time after the Empire Earth series. This is a game clearly made by people who don't understand the genre. The concept sounds really cool - take a civilization form the stone age to the future. Where it breaks is the implementation. You basically have to rush and attack other civs as quickly as possible (even on the easiest setting) which basically defeats the purpose of having a future age in the first place. If you evolve to the future age, the game becomes so redundant and boring that it's hard to finish the same. The same thing happens EVERY SINGLE TIME: Once other civilizations get stealth bombers (which can't be shot down), they just bomb your wonders until you've lost all the benefits the Wonders give and you basically have to keep spamming units OVER AND OVER again to take out the civilizations one at a time. All the while, the other civilizations keep circling back and re-taking the land you've just taken so it's this never ending game of cat and mouse which gets REALLY boring REALLY fast. I'm honestly don't understand how they missed the mark so horribly on this one. This was released in the golden age of RTS and it was just SO SO bad that it shouldn't have ever had a place along side games that actually work like Age of Empires. I wouldn't recommend this RTS game to anyone. Stick with AOE, Ashes of the Singularity or Starcraft. These are reputable companies that actually hire good developers to make good Products. RoN clearly just cheaped out on the dev aspects.