Comments on: Rise & Fall Falls In Price (In Fact, To Free)

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:38:46 +0000

CHRONOLOGICAL ISSUE!!!

Gravatar StalinsGhost says:

I thought the RTS gameplay itself was horrifically average. I remember the tech tree and units being infuriatingly nonsensical. I guess being an ancient history student didn’t help my appreciation of it in this department The hero mode was nice, though underdeveloped. Last game I ever managed to take back to a shop actually. Might give it a try at some point now I can run it properly if I find the time.

I posted this after him.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:37:43 +0000

Eh, use archers and stick to archers. Everything else was bobbins, except siege weapons which I like to think of as big archers.

The concept of the fields forts (control popcap) being deffended by neutral characters quietly combines the warcraft 3 concept of creeps with the flag capturing in dawn of war.

So, a large army was the best way to sweep away a forts deffences, but you cant get a large army without forts.

In multiplayer/skirmish the persians get a building which spawns infinite horse archers for free, so every game is a matter of which one you go for, infinite free troops of available more quickly purchased troops.

Sins of a solar empire has this same issue, oddly symetrical.

By: SmallGods

SmallGods — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:16:42 +0000

@Bob Bobson

I had a similar problem, guessing you might be on Vista? Right click on the installer and go to properties, and under Compatability switch it to XP Pro Service Pack 2, then be sure to run it as an administrator. Did the job for me, still installing now and looking hopeful!

By: Bema

Bema — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:43:25 +0000

Crashes randomly, despite latest drivers and a system capable of running far more graphically advanced games.

Tad frustrating as I remember this being fun.

By: your mom

your mom — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:16:52 +0000

go to bed and runme.cmd i cant get1!!!!11!!11!!!1!

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:59:54 +0000

Wow, this game is truly terrible. Not worth the download time.

By: Uglycat

Uglycat — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:35:46 +0000

Can’t unpack on my comp as you need ++2gb to unpack I suspect (only got 1 on mine) just fyi (unless there is some sort of commandline version)

By: Bob Bobson

Bob Bobson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:01:18 +0000

The installer doesn’t seem to have created the RunMe.cmd file that the shortcuts all point to for me (and I’ve given it a couple of attempts to install it). Does anyone else have this problem or a fix for it?

By: aldo_14

aldo_14 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:57:47 +0000

Well the retail version of Rise & Fall was infected with Starforce 3 remember. Oh by the way is this version patched to version 1.15 and does it still take a looooooooooooooooong time to load?

Does this version have Starforce 3 in it?

By: NoNamePls

NoNamePls — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:28:04 +0000

Well the retail version of Rise & Fall was infected with Starforce 3 remember. Oh by the way is this version patched to version 1.15 and does it still take a looooooooooooooooong time to load?

By: Albides

Albides — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:36:00 +0000

I tried Psi-ops when RPS announced it, but it was US only. But here’s the thing; I managed to get around that by using a cracked .exe.

Take that, American supremacy!

I’ll definitely try these. This is awfully generous of them. These games might not be great, but they aren’t terrible.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:34:19 +0000

IvanHoeHo: Psi-ops works here in the UK, so the other Midway titles should. Ubisoft were the ones who had region-locking on theirs.