Empire: Total War
8.5
Platforms
- PCMar 03, 20098.5playscore8.915 Critics8.418.1K Players
15 critic reviews · 5 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Empire also introduces naval battles for the first time. Watching your deckhands prep their ships for battle is awesome, but as the frigates and sloops move in for the kill they often engage in an awkward tango of shifting sails over which players have minimal control. Since every real-time battle is an opt-in affair, not even these battle deficiencies can take away from the fantastic Empire experience. This is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining, and historically accurate strategy games ever made.
Matt Bertz · Sep 22, 2009 Reviewed on PC - The new features and time period are definitely welcome, but it's disappointing that Empire: Total War has so many minor glitches and oversights that mar an otherwise excellent experience. It's likely that these issues will be addressed in a patch, and The Creative Assemble has indicated as much. But for now, what we've got is a marvelous game with some significant stumbles and a stilted multiplayer mode.
Game Trailers · Apr 15, 2009 Reviewed on PC - Empire is without doubt or reservation the best Total War yet and is a game of unmatched scope and ambition, with its uniquely compulsive blend of turn-based strategy and real-time tactics. It would have been easy for Creative Assembly to stick to the already successful template used in the Total War series so far, but in taking the risk in adding an extra dimension to the game and tackling a more modern era, Empire sets the new standard for strategic wargaming on the PC.
Iain McCafferty · Mar 12, 2009 Reviewed on PCRead full review - In the end, Empire's only blemish is its unresponsive units and pathing. For a game whose greatest thrills result from the specific gambles you make with your troop movements, it's a shame you're sometimes punished when that movement seems out of your control. Even with its flaws, though, the newest Total War is so breathtaking and immersive that it's hard not to recommend to avid strategy fans.
Dave Snider · Mar 11, 2009 Reviewed on PCRead full review - It's impossible to condense an experience as broad and as rich as Empire: Total War to a few thousand words. Its complex amalgam of turn-based empire building and real-time skirmishing is exciting and involving, and it's both fuller and more streamlined than its predecessors. But like those predecessors, it inspires that compulsion to accomplish just one last turn, even when your eyes are bleary and your body longs for sleep.
Kevin VanOrd · Mar 09, 2009 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Empire: Total War is a masterful combination of all the things that I love about strategy games -- a great setting, a first-rate presentation, tactics that reward maneuver, and a strategic layer that requires flexibility in your plans. The 18th century is a perfect setting for the game design, and the new naval battles, while a tad clunky, finally deliver the series' one missing component. The new strategic options are nicely balanced by increased convenience and legibility across the map.
Steve Butts · Mar 06, 2009 Reviewed on PCRead full review - This is the grandest, most spectacular work of strategy gaming on the PC. If you’ve not tackled a Total War game before, or assume that they’re not for you, we challenge you to play Empire and not be impressed, or even fundamentally changed by the experience. This is one of the most playable, and therefore important and accomplished strategy games ever created.
Jim Rossignol · Mar 06, 2009 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Even with some issues, Empire: Total War's battles are still very satisfying on the whole, and the game has a huge level of overall depth to explore. Armchair generals will get a ton of mileage out of this very ambitious and expansive game that once again pushes numerous boundaries with the Total War series.
NATHAN MEUNIER · Mar 03, 2009 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Empire: Total War is a testament to many things: innovation, renovation and keeping a series alive. It is also a testament to the strategy genre, delivering many aspects of in-depth gameplay whilst staying this side of say, civilization. It is a testament to history, bringing the early modern age alive in an enjoyable and interactive format. It is a testament to the community, trying to listen and incorporate their ideas, whilst also giving them the tools to do it themselves.
Joe Robinson · Mar 09, 2009 Reviewed on PCRead full review - In some ways, it's the closest we've come to the enormous social novel from the period after that which Empire chronicles: it's a Tolstoy-esque War and Peace of a game. Its problems may be the inevitable problems of trying something with such sheer scope. As such, if you want the breathtaking vision of the game, you have to accept the flaws in the details - for now, at least. I bet Tolstoy would have loved patches too.
Kieron Gillen · Feb 27, 2009 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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About the game
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Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe. Empire: Total War takes the Total War series to the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment — a time of political upheaval, military advancements, and radical thought, captured in stunning detail and at your complete control. Empire: Total War introduces a host of revolutionary new features, including true 3D naval combat. For the first time in the Total War series, intuitively command single ships or vast fleets upon seascapes rich with extraordinary water and weather effects that play a huge role in your eventual glorious success or ignominious defeat.
Developer: Creative Assembly