While it's not as encompassing as Rise of Nations was, this game provides a very good array of differing races from the glass/sand/fire Alin to the pew-pew-pew Cuotl and not to forget the techno Vinci. Multiplayer is probably the biggest redeeming factor as it got my interest up in single player since you could play other races in MP which you can't in SP.
No real bugs to speak of and only a few times have I had some networking issues in MP but outside of that, it's a very fun game to play!
Lastly, it's a different kind of RTS than those comparing it to Company of Heroes. I'd say it's a completely different classed RTS.
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