I never played ROL and haven't purchased C&C T3 yet I'm still happy with RON. Who still plays? Who plays online?
The last AOE I've played was II. Rise of Nations is much faster, gives you more time to worry about battling and now micro managing. In AOE resources deplenish... Rise of Nations have boarders...Rise of nations has bigger armies since resources are abundant. More strategy in RON... When I first played it I said...AOE...but after a while I started seeing the difference, have stopped playing since..that was two years ago. I only played AOE3 demo...very good graphs that's for sure...better than RON overall...not.
Its an ace game! Used to play it with my 2 mates on a home LAN. It was good because you configure the game to be simple, this meant they could have fun and not get bored with having to learn everything.
I have the disc, but I lost my Jewel case, and I accidentally deleted it (and every other program on my computer) after I lost it.