Rise and Fall..

**Mithradates** · 06-10-2006, 14:54

This game may be considered heracy to those of the more historicaly accurate people for which i am one of but what do people think of this game is it good epic or just another boring rts?

**doc_bean** · 06-10-2006, 15:05

It has a demo which didn't run too well on my machine (but nearly nothing does these days, i have to check it out when I have time...). You should check it out fi you're interested.
It looks pretty good, I don't think I got the initial build up right when I played it (the amount of units you're supposed to produce etc.), it seems like you're supposed to build a pretty big amount of units (for an rts), the hero concept is interesting, but I didn't manage to go into 'hero mode' for whatever reason.

**x-dANGEr** · 06-10-2006, 17:07

When I first got it, I really enjoyed it, but back then I haven't met M: TW yet.. So.. But for sure, I think it is no where as good as a total war game, gets boring after a short period.

**scotchedpommes** · 06-12-2006, 00:04

Have read bits of a review of it, which raves about the HCM[?] system for
controlling heroes, and gives it a high score seemingly based on the reviewer's
love for that one feature.

[Haven't tried the demo - I think there's one on my latest magazine disc - and I
doubt there is much chance of it running well on my machine either.]

**edyzmedieval** · 06-12-2006, 07:05

Rise and Fall Civilisation at War.

Nice RTS, with normal graphics(far from looking good), with an interesting hero concept.

**Lorenzo_H** · 06-12-2006, 12:28

I've been looking at this game. I agree with edysmedieval.

I would probably get it if I had more time to play games and didn't already have enough games to play.

**professorspatula** · 06-20-2006, 17:14

The Eurogamer site says it's poor, and if that's their opinion, it's good enough for me. Often they over-rate games, so a low score means I don't hold much hope for this one.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=65579

**Martok** · 06-21-2006, 01:18

Every review I've seen thus far has give the game a mediocre rating at best. The general conensus is that while they give the developers credit for trying something new (blending action and strategy), it winds up being unsatisfying in both genres.

**edyzmedieval** · 06-21-2006, 10:38

It is poor unfortunately. Blending RTS with RPG is a good idea, but they basically copied Age of Empires. Unfortunately for them, AoE is much better.

I played it for 1h 30 minutes, but I got bored, really.