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I really loved Rise of Nations but I wanted more from the Conquer the World Single player. Thrones and Patriots delivers on this. Now the world map is playable in cool campaigns. What's nice is that I've actually learned some interesting things about Napoleans campaign (that's what I'm playing now) and I'm sure it is the same for the other campaigns as well.

The new nations are great. They did some great art for the new civs like making native american archers, riders and cities made with tipis. It's also cool to play as the Americans and use the new capital building, it looks like the US capital. All the others are represented by cool new buildings and they allow for some cool new gameplay.

To sum it up Thrones and Patriots does what a good Ex-pack should, it really expands the scope of play and content of an already cool game. It's also getting great reviews on all the game sites, which I checked before buying. Oh yeah, be sure to run the credits, they made a cool new song for this Ex-pack, it's really funny, but I still like the RON credits song the best.

I am a big fan of Rise of the Nations! I think it combines the best things of Civilization series and the Starcraft series... making me addicted to this darn game.
The expansion pack is great! It comes with great features that make the game more interesting:
1) More units, not puny ones, these new units really get the job done!
2) New civilizations... now you can represent even more countries. Even the Lakotas are there (who in the hell are the lakotas), never heard of them before in any other strategy game.
3) Additional campaings. Sometimes after playing a while, you get bored because you do the same campaings over and over again. With the new scenarios, be prepared to spend some time on the refreshed game.
4) Architecture perks, some new wonders of the world are added. There are only three of them.
By now, you might think that I am crazy for this expansion pack, I am. But I do also realize that there are setbacks. I think that for about 30 dollars, Microsoft could have done a better job. With the thousand programmers that Microsoft company has. Adding 20 units, 3 wonders, some new campaigns seems puny to me and the worst part is that it costs the same as the game itself (even when it involved less time and effort to make the expansion pack). So that is why I give this game a 4 star. Good, but not perfect. Maybe if the expansion pack costs $10 bucks, that would be perfect.

The hit of the first Rise of Nations was hard to overcome, but this expansion makes the game even better. The goverments that come into play just add to what type of nation you want to become: Military or Economic. But you will have to choose wiseley in order to win in harder modes of the game.

Overall: Brings new aspects to the game, but lack of choosing grows dull, you can only choose three. * * * * out of 5

The new nations brought into the game are the best features by far, unfournatley, only 6 are new:
Americans (very good, ability to entrench is excellent)
Iriquios (decent, just another nation)
Lakota (decent, just another nation)
Persians (very good, top 5 nations)
Indians (almost exactly like the Persians, very goood)
Dutch (unique units are somewhat inifective, decent)

Overall: Wish there were 1 or 2 more nations to have more playing time in future. * * * * out of five

The wonders are, again, seem to be to few: only 3 more, and at that one of them is just a city, and the other a huge castle. Of course they have huge benefits but I can think of a few "wonders" off the top of my head.

Overall: Highly dissapointed in the quantity of wonders: * * * out of five

The campaigns were defintely needed for this game, just because everything else seems limited (but good). The "New World" campaign is my favorite since you can be about 10 different nations, with different goals in mind. The Napolean and Alexander are roughly the same thing except of for different ages. The Cold War is my second favorite since you have to do many things in order to keep other countries conent with yours.

Overall: Adds to the gameplay but in Alexander and Naploean the senarios are repetitive in late game: * * * * out of five

Dont get me wrong, I love this game and recommend it for anyone, but just way a week or so for the price to go down.