Empire: Total War
March 28th, 2009
I’ve played through and beaten the ‘Grand Campaign’ as the Prussians, and started a new game as the Matarahahahaha Confederacy (Whatever, the Hindu Indian faction).
Overall I like the game. The battles are excellent, even if the AI is exploitable, its still fun.
The diplomacy/research/economic bit is a mixed bag, and is definately secondary to the battle engine.
Assassins, Missionaries and Scholars are a neat extra.
Overall I’m pleased, but I’ve got the nagging suspicion that I’d be just as happy if not happier playing Europa Universalis II to scratch that campaign ‘itch’ and just load up E:TW for the occasional ‘quick’ battle.
The scores coming in at 7.8, 80% etc. etc. Seem about right.
Yeah, screw it. I’m re-installing EUII for a compare/contrast. Already one of the things that boggled my mind is covered… EUII spans from 1419-1820.
In other words it includes The Napoleonic Wars, which was a World War, and had some of the biggest battles ever… which either 1) E:TW’s engine couldn’t handle the truly massive battles or 2) Expan$ion pack! $$
Damnit I am really beginning to hate the game industry.