Comments on: Empire: Total War – PC Game Review

By: Grindstone

Grindstone — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:08:57 +0000

You’ll be happy to know that CA has released many patches since release, including a lot of DLC (downloadable content, extra bits added to the overall game). These include special faction-specific units (IE Death’s Head Hussar’s for Prussia) and so forth.
The game is much improved over the last few months, including rampant fixing of crashing issues and improving the AI. Be warned; island nations are no longer safe.
For those who complain of historical accuracy; it’s a game! If you want to just railroad then go watch the History Channel. If you want to actuall shape history, play ETW. Nothing is as awesome as Prussia pushing out the Maratha Confederacy from the Bahamas.
The vanilla game itself is extremely fun and addictive, but aside from offical DLC, the player can add further to the experience. Check out the massive community that develops and posts mods for the game, changing everything from the loading screens, to music, battle noise, uniforms, even much of the gameplay. There’s something for everyone.

If you like strategy and tacical battles, this game (indeed, the entire series) is great.
Highly recommended.

By: Matty

Matty — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:08:05 +0000

I agree that this was the most buggy release yet – I found it extrodinarily frustrating. With the patches it has all been fixed – good thing about this game is how much time you get playing it for $ value. 100′s of hours of gameplay. As for it being a “romper room kiddie click fest” – well, correct me if I’m wrong isn’t it a game. Yes – the diplomacy is a mystery, and the series has always struggled with this, in fact all games have. I could criticise lots of little bits of the game, but overall it was a good effort by the developers. It was released a bit too early, with a few too many starting bugs, in particular the confusion over using Steam and account problems. However they still support this game, and that is to be commended that there is still a developer working to make the experience more enjoyable. Perfect? Far from it. Recommended (in its current form)? Absolutely for an absorbing “game.”

By: ravinhood

ravinhood — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:30:51 +0000

I don’t know how they can say “highly recommended” about a game with so many flaws and bugs still in it after 1.5 patch? This is the sloppiest release of any total war game to date and seriously reigns supreme as the worst of the bunch. I don’t even have to go into great detail how sloppy it is just take a jump over to the official forum page and you’ll read thousands and thousands of complaints and rants about this one. Armchair general reviewers need to get their noses out of CA azzes and start reviewing honestly and telling those that depend on these reviews for purchase the truth and quit sugar coating it because they got their palms wiped. This is just another one of those romper room kiddie clickfest games like the rest but this time it’s not even complete and remains very unfinished and buggy.

By: godparticle

godparticle — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:14:48 +0000

It’s a game that plays good. Ok, it lacks some historical accurateness, but the trick is to make the game playable, and they succeeded, although rather dull after a while.

At daran, histwar maybe a good game, but coming from battlefront i start to worry a bit. I got Combatmission ShockForce+marines, it is lacking on al fronts, hack they don’t even portray modern battle operations, but they covered their asses and say, well it’s just a invasion game, portraying large scale army based game mechanics in an invasion type of simulation. Rather disappointing, and lacking community support also, the game-engine is dog slow…

Hope histwar won’t be a screw-up game like CM:ShockForce, reading from http://www.histwar.com/ it looks promising.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:41:32 +0000

Often after beating the ^%$! out of another major country, they refuse to accept a proposal for peace. They do this even when I offer to return conquered territory; even the district including their capital!

The diplomacy aspect of this game needs work for this and other reasons.

By: peryskop

peryskop — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:03:35 +0000

some games shuld have description “made only for money” that one was one of them. I love total war series but that was last one i bought

By: KN Cybulski

KN Cybulski — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:38:08 +0000

While I enjoyed the game in some respects such as the story driven campaigns, this title left a lot to be desired for me. CTDs happened often on my machine and while I don’t have a top of the line machine, I do have decent specs and yet the game would freeze at times, especially when clicking on a navy.

This title needs numerous patches, in my opinion. And in many others, as well. I have de-installed the game and chalked it up to a lesson learned. I keep buying numerous titles as soon as they come out only to be overwhelmed by bugs.

I would have given it a 68%.

By: Cambell

Cambell — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:57:24 +0000

I think when it comes to games, its purely subjective. A review is meant to be ensightful, dealing two sides of a compass. Sir your article delievers the goods.

By: daren

daren — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:10:00 +0000

save your cash and wait for histwar to come out

By: Headfoot

Headfoot — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:41:10 +0000

Who gives a —- if it’s “historically accurate” or not if it’s fun? It’s a GAME made to be FUN not a textbook. Would you want to play a WWI game and just see who could sit in a trench longer?

Stop reviewing games.