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Rise Of Nations Demo Released

Posted by simoniker on from the must-have-RTS-action dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out that the playable demo of Big Huge Games' epic RTS for PC, Rise Of Nations, is now available on the Microsoft homepage. There's also a BitTorrent mirror on Gametab for this 194mb file.

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  1. Civ + AOE by Universal+Nerd · · Score: 2

    Great!

    I love Sid Meyer (Civilization and Alpha Centauri) games and love the Age of Empires series, having them rolled into one is great.

    Gotta get the demo.

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    1. Re:Civ + AOE by hymie3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I wonder if they can keep a nice balance as Sid

      What has Sid done recently? Civ3 was Jeff Briggs. Alpha Centauri was Brian Reynolds, as was Civ2. Gettysburgh! and Anteitam! were both Sid+Brian. The last thing that was pure sid was that golf game that everyone heard was good, but nobody seemed to play.

    2. Re:Civ + AOE by analog_line · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It isn't Civilization + Age of Empires. It's more like Age of Empires 3. I'm a Fileplanet subscriber so I was able to get it a few days ago, and it's pretty much an extension of Age of Empires gameplay, as far as I've been able to divine, with some finer grain technological research.

    3. Re:Civ + AOE by tfreport · · Score: 2, Informative

      This is not a Sid Meier game. It is a Brian Reynolds game (the man that designed Civ II and SMAC). Got a lot of faith in him and this one is going to be good.