Rising Kingdoms is a real time strategy that focuses on dynamic tactical battles and settlement conquest.

Rising Kingdoms is a real time strategy that focuses on dynamic tactical battles and settlement conquest combined with role playing elements. Complete with a series of challenging scenarios, an intricate story line and a variety of different races, each offering a unique style of playing, this will prove to be an experience that will continue to amaze you with every game. For the first time, Rising Kingdoms allows you to command 2 or more races at the same time by capturing additional colonies situated on the map.

Call powerful Champions and develop their skills as they grow stronger. Lead your army to seek out and conquer independent colonies of 5 unique minor races and combine their powers with those of your initial race. Use exactly 99 different Champion and colony specials, numerous unit abilities and ultimate legendary units on your path to victory. Adapt to the ever-changing environment that requires different strategic decisions depending on the nearby colonies. Make use of powerful items, acquire the valuable "glory" resource, upgrade your armies and try to outwit your opponents in this diverse and action-filled strategy game.

Rising Kingdoms includes single player campaigns and challenging AI opponents, as well as multiplayer mode with up to 8 participants over LAN or Internet. The Online Battle feature will let you test your skills against the best players in the world to prove your strategies superior and achieve a high rank in the global Hall of Fame.

Here are some key features of "Rising Kingdoms":

· Fast-paced strategic gameplay
· Conquest and command of minor races in addition to your initial race
· Story spanned over several generations which will lead the player through 30 missions
· 8 players can play online or in lan matches
· Online Battle mode supporting chat, automatching, a player ranking system and a global Hall of Fame
· AI opponents with 3 levels of difficulty, that can participate in single and multiplayer games
· Three major races to play with – treacherous Humans, vicious Foresters, and merciless Darklings
· Five independent races with colonies to conquer in order to support the player in expanding and strengthening her empire – Elves, Trolls, Dragons, Nomads and Shades. Benefit from the Troll Cannon, summon the powerful Ancient Executioner, or devastate your opponents' lands with Dragon Fury
· Host of fantastic units each with their own design, abilities and skills
· 12 unique Champions to choose from – command Human Battle Angel, Forester Sharpshooter, or Darkling Empath. Every champion has its own skills and ways to progress
· Powerful random generated artifacts to boost your Champions' abilities


What's New in This Release:

· Fixed a bug that caused 'Continue Campaign' and 'Restart Mission' to make the game hang
· Fixed many network stability issues resulting in 'Desync' errors
· Riva TNT2 and other low-profile video cards are now supported
· Behavior of Human and Darkling magic units substantially improved – now they follow the other units more closely and don't separate from them, Monk heals units while attacking a point, etc
· Destroying a Forester Magic House now properly decreases the population limit
· Fixed the Hold Position command so that it always works
· Fixed a crash that happened when you try to place a building near a friendly Stoneshaper
· Fixed a problem which caused game replays to replay the game differently than it happened
· A lot of balance changes, most importantly to the Wizard of the Bow, Sharpshooter, Seedkeeper and Empath champions