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Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends

Rise of Legends is a real-time strategy game released in 2006 and a spin off of Rise of Nations. While it reuses many concepts from it's predecessor, it is not a historical game, but instead set in a fantasy…

80 9 May 2006

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Big Huge Games, released 9 May 2006 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Big Huge Games and released in 2006. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Two years after the events of the war between Vinci and Cuoti as shown in the opening cinematic. Giacomo and the gang on their way home , Doge destroys the wall of the mountain and a rock was about to fall to Giacomo but Petrozzo save him and Petrozzo died. On vengeance, Giacomo will revenge on what happen to Petrozzo. Upon revenging he encounters allies which would help him find Doge to defeat. As the story goes , it spins the Pre-war of Vinci and Cuoti.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 16 hrs.

What it launched against

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends launched on 9 May 2006, within three weeks of New Super Mario Bros., Ōkami, Hitman: Blood Money and Heroes of Might and Magic V. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: New Super Mario Bros., Ōkami, Hitman: Blood Money, Heroes of Might and Magic V.

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Official trailer

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When did Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends come out?
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends was released on 9 May 2006 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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