Great game but could improve in some areas.
User Rating: 8 | Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War PC
Gameplay: In Rise and Fall: Civilzations at War there are four nations, Egypt, Rome, Greece and Persia. The main thrust of the Rise & Fall experience is the blend between strategy and action. Much of the game plays as a traditional real-time strategy experience with the harvesting or resources, construction of bases, and research of technology but it's also possible to zoom down into the action by taking control of the hero to do some serious damage. The heroes all come from the ancient world from different moments in history. For instance, Greece has Alexander while Caesar is represented for the Romans. It's fun using the hero and hack away at infanty, but there is a time limit (Stamina) so you can't just stay controling the hero the entire time a battle is going on. There is also a multiplayer part of the game which can hold up to eight players. One of the most inovative part of the game is the navy battles. You can accully create troops onboad the ships and contol indiviual ships. which is neat. far better then the ship battles of Rome: Total War. Graphics: The graphics are not bad, everything is colorfull and is in 3-D. But things could be more polished and smoothed out. The enviroments are pretty nice though and esspcally the movement of the water and the ships.
Sound: The soundtrack of the game is quite good, it really suits the them of the game well. Also the Voice covers and the sound of clash of steel sound really good.
Value: All in all this is a good game. I don't know why it got such a low rating from gamespot. The ship battles are great and very entertaining. I would say the replay value is quite good with the skirmish maps and the multiplayer part. I give this game 8.0 out of 10. 
