There's also a new government system that lets you choose from six different government types, including republic, despotism, communism, and democracy, each of which bestows unique advantages and bonuses.
Thrones and Patriots includes the obligatory amount of new content that you'd expect from an expansion pack there are six new nations, including the oft-requested Americans, Indians, Persians, Iroquois, Lakota, and Dutch, as well as 20 new units and three new wonders of the world. The result is that Thrones and Patriots is an expansion pack that offers more than just new content it also makes a superb game even better.Īlexander the Great marches on Thebes. Yet the designers at Big Huge Games apparently recognized that there was some room for improvement in their masterpiece, so they went back to the drawing board to shore up the game's scarce weaknesses. After all, Rise of Nations was the best real-time strategy game of last year, not to mention GameSpot's 2003 PC Game of the Year. To say that the new expansion pack to Rise of Nations has a lot to live up to would be a huge understatement.
