For any who have read my other articles, you know how I normally feel about real-time strategy games and my general level of success for those of you who haven't, it's enough to say that the words 'complete lack of skill' and 'cannon fodder' come up frequently. What I got instead was a highly polished, truly fun RTS game. When I installed the preview build, what I expected was a fairly polished, and fairly complicated, RTS experience. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, the upcoming real-time strategy title from Big Huge Games and Microsoft, is one of those games that comes out of nowhere and really surprises me.
