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Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Totally addictive

Written by KM from Brooklyn

Mar 18, 2009

I love this game! I started playing it on my Windows xp and just got my first Mac and love it even more. Its really addictive and for all you history buffs out there it is a great game. Worth every penny!

14 of 17 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Best Game

Written by RG

Mar 3, 2009

It's the best game ever in War Strategy games!!!
I just love it......friends just try this.

13 of 18 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Lost forever, maybe

Written by CD from Washington

Jun 21, 2008

Played RoN for years on pc's. When I moved the disc got lost. Can no longer get it in a pc version (have VMWarefusion on my mac) so since the mac version of the game won't play on the new IMacs, I can't play my favorite game ever. Very sad.

27 of 125 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Was working okay until....

Written by RW from West Valley City

May 20, 2008

Worked great on my G4 iBook, not so well on the supposedly faster processor, Intel Core Duo 2 Macbook w/2 gigs ram....it lags all the freakin' time, not fun to play anymore!

35 of 87 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

cool

Written by AM

Mar 3, 2008

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94 of 252 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Great game!

Written by TI from College Place

Jan 15, 2008

If you enjoy strategy games you'll love this game. You will be entertained for hours and hours controlling different civilizations in history. From early basic times to current and even the future you control the destiny of your people. Chose dominance through military, economic or alliance. From sling shots to machine guns, to stealth bombers, to nuclear bombs and beyond you call all the shots. Worth the money!

106 of 174 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Not for new Mac

Written by EN from Groton

Jan 12, 2008

I am echoing comments from others. I wish I would have read their reviews before my purchase. This DOES NOT work on the newer iMacs as of January 2008. Please Apple! Introduce an update that will fix this - I understand this is currently affecting a number of games written for the pre-intel macs. It's too bad because this really is a great game .

109 of 177 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

macsoft strikes again

Written by TC from Raleigh

Jan 3, 2008

Rise of Nations is a truly great game. Sadly, the porting work is sloppy. I've had it cause kernel panics on 2 different computers (1 Intel, 1 G5), and it heats up the gpu in my laptop (8600) over 80 degrees C. (And this is with all 4 corners propped up independently to maximize airflow) Pushing the limits is fine, but this game runs entirely in 2D. Windows machines with half the processing power of any mac on the market today ran it flawlessly while maxed out when the game hit the market. I love the game, but please don't support MacSoft's terrible porting work by buying it.

51 of 82 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Does not work on IMAC

Written by SM from Louisville

Nov 20, 2007

Does not work on the IMac. Very disappointing.

50 of 71 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Does not work with new Aluminum iMac

Written by SJ from New York

Nov 19, 2007

I have a new 24" iMac aluminum 2.8 Ghz, 2GB RAM 500HD
Running latest OSX, Leopard.

This game does not work. It has a flickering effect on-screen making all interface and animations unplayable. You can't see the buttons, or anything else! Sent email to Destineer about problem. This is their reply:

"This is a known bug with the graphic drivers for your video card. We're currently working with Apple to get this resolved. The latest software update for your iMac addresses the graphics card specifically and may fix this issue, but at this time I can't guarantee that it does. You may need to wait for Apple to release an updated driver for Rise of Nations to work properly."

Buyer beware. Perhaps if enough people complain, this will be finally fixed. As of now, I cannot play the game.

58 of 82 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Not for new aluminum imac

Written by BS

Sep 4, 2007

Do not buy this game thinking it will work with the new imac. I bought this for the new 24" 2.8 ghz machine and according to the game's publisher, the new video card is not compatable. Might run on the white imacs, though....

286 of 456 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Great game, no issues

Written by JF from St. Andrews

Aug 4, 2007

Game play is like almost exactly like the Age of Empires series but from the player starts at the dawn of civilization and ends in the modern era. Game options are highly customizable and the campaigns are a lot of fun. No stability issues on a 2.2MBP; graphics never lag even with a lot of action and no crashes or sound issues. My only complaint is that it's expensive for an older game but it's still worth it.

35 of 58 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

the time

Written by DS from hornell

Jul 14, 2007

its worth it

31 of 66 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

My Favorite

Written by MT from Brighton

Jun 17, 2007

This game is by far my favorite for the Macintosh platform. Although, it does have some audio issues, and it isn't Universal, it works pretty well. If you don't like the technical game play of Civilization, then check this one out for sure. This is a four year old game.. so it's a little ridiculous to have the same pricing but it's worth every penny!!!

33 of 45 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Awesome Game

Written by KB from south barrington

Jun 12, 2007

I love this game. I can't stop playing it! I have a 2 ghz MacBook Pro and this game has never crashed on me. It also has really unique features such as how every nation actually has official borders that enable you to do a lot of interesting things all centered around where the borders officially lay. Really fun game.

29 of 41 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Great Game, But...

Written by DS from JIM THORPE

Feb 17, 2007

This is alot of fun. A combination of Civilization and Age of Empires. You can even play Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and so on. However, it tends to crash often, so just make sure you save often, or you can loose alot of work. All in all, it is very fun to play and can be a bit addictive.

47 of 93 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

The Rise of a Great Game

Written by DR from Canonsburg

Dec 25, 2006

I truly enjoyed this game, with its combination of turn-based single player to its extremely intense battles online, it does a good job and helps keep that one foot in the door for all the RTS games out there. The only complaint that I do have, is that the game sometimes will shut off, or on a rare occasion freeze but for the most part the game is a good solid RTS and if anyone enjoys sitting down, and trying to stratiegically take over the world, its a good buy

56 of 108 people found this useful

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition

Good when it works

Written by AB

Oct 26, 2006

Unfortunately, besides being an overall good game it does crash very often. At least once every two to three times you play. Make sure you save repeatedly or maintain active the autosave cause you will be spending a lot of time loading back up...

60 of 121 people found this useful