Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots, the expansion pack to the critically acclaimed, best-selling real-time strategy (RTS) game Rise of Nations, adds a barrage of new features to the original game. Combining the epic scope of traditional turn-based strategy games with the fast-paced action of RTS games, Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots enables players to explore 6,000 years of history as they amass powerful armies, build prosperous economies and perform acts of diplomacy. Thrones and Patriots introduces six new nations, four unique single-player campaigns, more than 20 original units, new wonders and new government types. Unlike other historical RTS games, the Rise of Nations franchise allows gamers to quickly play through eight historical epochs of time from the Ancient Age to the Information Age.
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Expansion packs are often built around themes. Sometimes it's a series of campaigns on a particular subject or a bunch of new units or perhaps an entire new race. Thrones & Patriots, on the other hand, doesn't bother with any of that nonsense. It appears the team at Big Huge Games looked at the original Rise of Nations and decided that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. They just threw a whole bunch of new stuff into the game, including new civilizations, new campaigns, and some new gameplay mechanics. In lesser hands, that could have turned into a random mishmash of unbalanced "features" that messed up a perfectly wonderful game. Thrones & Patriots, though, is a wonderful, well-integrated collection of additions that makes an incredible game even better. Read More »
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Thrones and Patriots, the hotly anticipated expansion pack for GameSpy's RTS of the year, Rise of Nations, is designed to be much more than just that. In our two previous designer diaries, the Rise of Nations team discussed the ways in which four of the game's six new countries will fundamentally alter the way the game is played with their remarkable new abilities and advantages. Read More »
Also known as: Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots
Release Region: United States
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Publisher: Microsoft
Release Region: Japan
Release Date: June 10, 2004
Publisher: Microsoft
Expansion pack for:
Rise of Nations (PC)
P500MHz
128MB RAM
16MB video card
Rise of Nations
P1GHz
256MB RAM
32MB video card
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