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Empire: Total War | 
| From: Sega of America
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $18.99
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Seller: Best Game Deals
Rating:  271 reviews
Sales Rank: 377
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Genre: fighting_action_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 85229
Model: 85229
UPC: 010086852295
EAN: 0010086852295
ASIN: B0018YXM3Y
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New Real-time 3D Naval Warfare. Players control single ships or vast fleets with fully destructible sails as well as cannon and musket action, boarding raids and more. This is the complete naval combat experience. | | • | All-new Game Engine. With a newly created Windows XP-compatible DirectX 9 graphics engine, players will experience real-time seascapes, dynamic weather and a new advanced landscape and flora system. | | • | Episodic Campaign. Improves accessibility to the game by gradually introducing advanced features over time. | | • | Massive Scope. Over 30 in-game factions encompass all of the World's major powers including the United States of America.and dodge pursuers using the stylus. | | • | Brand New Multiplayer Modes. Players vie for a place at the top of the rankings and join leagues and ladders for even more gameplay challenges. |
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Product Description
Empire: Total War PC
Amazon.com Product Description
Call the shots in epic battles all over the world and expand your realm of influence throughout the tumultuous eighteenth century with Empire: Total War for your PC. Set against the bold intellectual landscape of the Enlightenment, this extension of the Total War franchise brings you out of the middle ages and into a realm where guns, gunpowder, and naval warfare have a dramatic influence on the face of combat. 
Realistic landscapes and weather add drama to your campaigns. View larger. | 
Dynamic, 3D naval warfare expands the combat zone. View larger. |  | 
For the first time, North America is open as a field of battle. View larger. | 
Ships boast destructible sails. View larger. |
Historic Factions, Expanded Horizons, and an Updated Campaign Map
Total War's detailed, turn-based battle system has received some serious upgrades that will have an impact on both seasoned commanders and newly minted combatants. The UI has been streamlined, and the systems for handling trade and diplomacy have been updated. You have improved advisors at your disposal, and realistic espionage techniques can be carried out using agents. Empire puts a variety of major political factions into your hands, including France, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, the United Provinces in northern Europe, Prussia, the Ottoman Empire, and Russia. Detailed strategic elements come into play, whether you're fighting in the heart of Europe, warding off Mamluk horsemen in the middle east, or working to capture the wealth of India. Beyond all this, for the first time in Total War history, the continent of North America is an open field of play that portrays the unique strategic problems encountered by the founding fathers during the revolutionary war. Dynamic 3D Naval Battles and Forces of Nature
Total War's signature 3D battle scenes are paired with a new graphics engine and improved technology, allowing war and conquest to take on an even more realistic feel. Advanced landscape and flora systems add both realism and depth to the world stage, while dynamic weather consistently threatens to throw a wrench in your attack plans. Whether you're coordinating platoon firing or supporting a defensive square formation, the musket and the cannon take center stage as newly developed implements of war. And they're not just for use on land. Real-time naval battle set on dramatic seascapes help shape the balance of power and determine the scope of your Empire, and they're rendered in the same impressive 3D as battles on land. You may find yourself directing a vast fleet through intricate maneuvers, controlling the helm of a single tall ship, or grappling to the enemy's boat and dictating the course of hand-to-hand combat on deck. New Multiplayer Action
Additional updates to the Total War model include a multiplayer component that provides player rankings for competitive commanders, leagues and ladders, and a selection of entirely new modes of game play.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 271
 I'll ever buy a sega game again! July 14, 2010
oxw
The Steam rights management client that you have to work through keeps crashing my computer. It practically is a virus. Plus it takes 5 hours to download - one wonders why they even provide disks as they don't seem to do anything. I'll never buy one of Sega's games again.
 Attacked for all the right reasons, but still good. July 7, 2010
Dakota Nielsen (Somewhere in the West, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The game is still buggy even though the release was ages ago and hardcore fans and casual gamers alike are now holding little but contempt for CA. It's all hogwash though. CA has made a very good game and their latest patch (which made the AI actually able to fight back and attempt "tactics") shows they are doing what many developers would not have done with such a release. The bugs do detract from the performance, and CA deserves every bit of flak they get for it, but that doesn't mean the game is not worth purchasing or repeated play-through.
Empire is a great game that had the potential to be the best of it's kind (more so than any other Total war game) and is still worthy of praise. The bugs may detract from gameplay, but it's still totally playable anyway. The campaign is spectacular as well, more so than any other total war game or any other game attempting to achieve this level of scope (yeah, I've played Europa, which pales in comparison). The campaign in Empire makes this game worthy of repeated purchases and countless hours of loving gameplay. Good thing you have Steam so you never have to purchase it again, even if your copy gets destroyed by your marauding siblings or ex-girlfriends.
Speaking of Steam, Valve provides excellent support and server strength and is hardly enforcing DRM on Empire. You can run the game offline at any time and do not need to be logged in to save or advance. Requiring it is hardly an issue, unlike Ubisoft's ridiculous DRM and notoriously crappy servers, even though I'm in agreeance that it shouldn't have been.
Even though Empire lacks many of the excellent features that emerged with it's predecessor, Medieval II (such as detailed cities, sieges and almost limitlessly customizable battles) it is still worthy of your purchase and I guarantee that if you give it an honest try you will love it (and yes, "hate" it) as much as I do.
Never Again, Please June 28, 2010
default_gamer
I was extremely excited when this game first came out, but man did everything go wrong. It turned out that I needed to install about 15 GB of info from online. Why wasn't it on discs? And through Steam? Ridiculous. I never even got to play it because my computer wouldn't be able to take it, and neither would I. The WORST part is that I couldn't return it once opened. It enraged me so much that I just threw the whole $50 game with a used activation code for a Steam account in the trash. I just want the Creative Assembly to see how negative the reviews on places like Amazon are so they know what we don't want- outrageous copy protection. Now CA will get NO money and angry customers. Smart investment, guys. I have deep fears for Shogun II Total War in 2011. If it turns out like this, we can all safely boycott anything else by CA, or any other protection mad company, forever.
Still unplayable June 27, 2010
Fredrik Andersson (The United States of America)
Tried on two different PCs and never been able to play for more than one hour before a crash or a lock up.
Today I decided to give it another shot but it locked up half way through the first (sea) battle.
As of June 26 2010 my assessment is that this is still the worst quality game I have ever purchased.
Been a fan of the total war series since the beginning and I guess all good things has to come to an end.
The end being Empire Total War.
Meh June 9, 2010
L. A. D. Real (here)
It was....ok. To be honest I got this game AFTER playing N:TW so it was like a step backwards, but its nice enough.
Good Stuff:
-Delivered on time
-Delivered without damage
-Pretty fun, and pretty big imo
Bad Stuff:
-Take ALOT more energy to run, which was improved upon, hence why N:TW runs smoother and looks nice
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