Rise of Nations

Yeah I played it for a while, but I found the emphasis with me was more on improving untill you're done, and only attacking after that... That way it got really old really fast, because I was basically waiting for over an hour before doing anything. There was no use in attacking with horses instead of tanks. Maybe there was, but the game never got me doing that for some reason...

I was also annoyed by the fact there were no voices, and you could build Wonders that didn't make sense at times that didn't make sense.

I was Russian btw, obviously so I could play defensive until all researching was done

The graphics were great IMO though, I like Ensemble's graphics way better than Bizzard ones anyway. They also made a nice attempt on shaping cities instead of mere military camps (by the whole capture and territory concept and all), not nearly a convincing realistic result, but at least better than other games I know.