Soldiers have a certain degree of moral, depending on their type they are best suited for certain fighting conditions and weak in others. War is carried throughout the entire world and battles are presented in real-time, at epic scales.Īrmies are built to be complex and to behave like the real ones. The player has to choose from one of several factions and use exploration, economics, religion and military means to create and rule a global empire. PS.Empire: Total War is a turn-based strategy game that focuses on a variety factors which it uses and puts into gameplay. The battles in Medieval and Medieval 2 are still today second to none! In the end, after the novelty of musket-fire wears thin I think I'll be heading back to M2:TW or even the original Medieval:TW. Overall, it feels like the game was "rushed" through development. The AI seems "dumber" than in previous titles.Ĩ. I'm feeling like they spent more time ADDING the naval battles to EMPIRE and less time perfecting the land battles.ħ. The naval battles "feel" like they're part of a different game. Not sure if it's just that the sword and spear-combat seem more VISCERAL than muskets?Ħ.
I'm finding the battles somewhat LESS satisfying than the previous TW series. The campaign-map does "stutter" now and then, but that's no biggieĥ. The load-times are BLAZING FAST (at least on my machine)Ĥ. The MP matchmaking (NAT-T etc.) works beautifully.ģ. (needless to say I have a kickass internet connection! hehe)Ģ. I got the entire thing via STEAM on release-night/day (March 4th) in just over 2 hrs. I suspect the game will follow in the footsteps of M2TW: a year's worth of patches combined with some heavy modding to make the game as enjoyable as it should be.ġ. I would think this would be common sense for game companies, especially in these tough economic times.īesides that annoying issue, ETW does seem to be another buggy entry. I am firmly in Stardock/Ironclad's boat: games should be made to run with quality graphics on mid-range systems. Whenever they release a new TW, they always blow the minimum specs out of the water. I can run the game on medium just fine, but like you, I am miffed that ETW requires a practically brand new rig/graphics card to run at high or better (I can run M2TW on high or better). I can't even start the land battle without it freezing on me two seconds in. This is sad too, because I loved all the Total War games, but this game is just unplayable for me. Worse still, after a few tries and getting it to the worse settings possible and waiting almost ten minutes on the load to the tutorials, I found the graphics to look like shogun total war with the performance of a next-gen fps. I can have a maxed graphics game of Medieval 2 run perfectly, yet I can't even apply a graphics change to this game without it freezing. You have to have steam running.even for the demo.
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