Rise of Nations features 18 civilizations, playable through eight ages of world history. Concepts taken from turn-based strategy games have been added into the game, including territories and attrition warfare. The development of the game was led by veteran Brian Reynolds, of Civilization II and Sid Meier�s Alpha Centauri.

Rise of Nations is a Real-Time Strategy computer game, developed by Big Huge Games and published by Microsoft on May 20, 2003.