Empire: Total War Scores 94% in PC Gamer UK

[Emabulator]

Computer and Video Games has word (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=209390) The Creative Assembly's upcoming RTS, Empire: Total War, received a glowing review in the latest issue of PC Gamer UK.

According to PCG the new instalment is "astonishing. A strategy masterwork." Well worth the 94% and rare 'Must Buy' badge they've dished out, then.

"This is the grandest, most spectacular work of strategy gaming on the PC," the mag gushes. "If you've not tackled a Total War game before, or assume that they're not for you, I challenge you to play Empire and not be impressed, or even fundamentally changed by the experience.

"There had been rumblings about Total War being simplified for the US market, especially with its introductory mini-campaign 'The Road to Independence'," the review continues. But "The Creative Assembly do not seem to have shirked their responsibility, or ever stepped back from including more features, or more detail," it says. "Empire is the opposite of dumbed down.Update: IGN gave Empire: Total War an overall score of 9.5/10 in this review (http://pc.ign.com/articles/957/957883p1.html) and Eurogamer gave it a 9/10 in this one (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/empire-total-war-review).

[lockwoodx]

I wasn't impressed with ROME: Total War back in the day. it's all just a play on the original "Myth" games.

[baz]

I'm pretty sure if I get this game it will destroy my life.

[walkstheplanes]

Though I can see why you feel how you feel (formations, directional importance, etc), I feel the two games are pretty different because of Myth's more intimate unit involvement (it's for that reason that Myth is still my favorite RTS.

Regardless, I love both series of games. Likely, E:TW is going to cause a lot of sleepless nights for me.

[randir14]

"There had been rumblings about Total War being simplified for the US market"

Simplified for an American audience? Give me a fucking break already with the Eurotrash cheap shots at the U.S.

[Johan]

Simplified for an American audience? Give me a fucking break already with the Eurotrash cheap shots at the U.S.

I think what they really meant, as opposed to being simplified for an American audience, was, "actually made playable for a discerning audience." :D

[Frogleg Special]

This is a game that defines PC gaming at its best: complexity, expansiveness, and historical authenticity. Should be a shame if people don't buy it.

I hope there's an American Civil War expansion just around the corner. Then I shudder at the thought of World War I: Total War.

[Mantooth]

I wasn't impressed with ROME: Total War back in the day. it's all just a play on the original "Myth" games.

What?
:confused:

[lockwoodx]

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/image_viewer/boxshot.php?pid=89360

[vallor]

Add me to the people who never seemed to understand all the joy for the Total War series.

Authenticity taken to extremes is nearly as unfun to me as a poorly executed game.

[baz]

What?
:confused:

My reaction to that post was similar, and this quote came to mind.

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage

[gnober]

The Total war series is the best RTS that i've ever played, can't even force myself to play wow, dota, heroes, etc anymore. =(

I did liked the mount&blade experience though.

[randir14]

For anyone still playing Medieval 2 there are two major mods being released some time in the next couple months:

Third Age: Total War
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=654

Broken Crescent 1.5
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=225847

[Kweli]

I wasn't impressed with ROME: Total War back in the day. it's all just a play on the original "Myth" games.

Im not quite sure i understand where your coming from.. is it because you have a pre-set amount of units and you cant 'build' more? Because thats the only similarity I see... The fact that you build those units in the "map" view kinda kills that one similarity anyway