Rise of Nations strives to take only the most enjoyable elements of real-time strategy games and apply these in a new way. Though military conquest is certainly an effective method of global domination, the game is designed such that civic and diplomatic development are equally important, and offer alternate means to ultimate victory. The Big Huge Games studio was founded by Brian Reynolds, lead designer of Sid Meier's Civilization II and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, who applies his nearly peerless empire-building strategy expertise to this Age of Empires-style RTS. Found a new nation and nurture it through the ages to dominate the world in this real-time strategy game from the co-creator of the Civilization series.
