15th April 2009, 11:49 PM
How I rate Empire total war as it is now
The Good
Diplomacy is now a factor in how you play, Alliances are actually useful in this game, You can sue for peace by dangling seized territories, Unlike previous installments there is no need to make diplomats you can negotiate with any faction by clicking on the diplomacy panel.
You now can research technology, Much like sid miers Civilization except only limited to technology of the 18 century era.
You can decide your form of goverment as you build up research in the political sciences.
Three theaters to play on in the grand campaign, You can travel between theatres.
Naval combat is possible , You can even board enemy ships and capture them.
You can steal research using gentlemens by infiltrating foreign universities.
You can better manage taxation
Hire and fire ministers
You can plant a fort anywhere and upgrade it.
You can promote units into generals or admirals
No more distance from capital penalty
Sanctions and blockades are more effective at crippling rivals then in previous installments.
Negative
grossly High system requirements, They needlessly tax your PC by having a animated 3d world map with bells and whistles instead of using a Prerendered campaign map.
The game has long loading times, Sluggish performance,I admit That's a subjective complaint since I haven't played it on a high end dual core PC, I am basing this off my experience with my own computer that barely reaches the minimum requirements despite having just upgraded.
Enemy AI is smarter, but still dumb !
Ending Turns takes to long to go through, since you need to cycle every freaking minor faction from the Barbary pirates to Inuit,Before you can begin the next turn.
Instead of managing your farms,Mines,harbors,factories from the regional capital, Each of these things needs to be managed from the individual villages,Towns and Ports doted all over the regional map , Which is time consuming and annoying since their hard to spot and there is no short cuts in the panel.
You cant train, Rakes ( spies/assassins) and Missionaries , You have to wait for them to spawn at random.
No more family tree, Your generals don't come from your royalty.
Your not rewarded with treasure when you capture new regions anymore.
Rome TW combat still seems more enjoyable compared to the 18 century warfare of Empire TW, The only fun thing is blowing shit up with canons.
The soundtrack is dull compared to RTW, Even MTW2.
Pussy age of enlightenment means no more crucifying populations, Sacking and pillaging, Holding troops and generals for ransom.
The Good
Diplomacy is now a factor in how you play, Alliances are actually useful in this game, You can sue for peace by dangling seized territories, Unlike previous installments there is no need to make diplomats you can negotiate with any faction by clicking on the diplomacy panel.
You now can research technology, Much like sid miers Civilization except only limited to technology of the 18 century era.
You can decide your form of goverment as you build up research in the political sciences.
Three theaters to play on in the grand campaign, You can travel between theatres.
Naval combat is possible , You can even board enemy ships and capture them.
You can steal research using gentlemens by infiltrating foreign universities.
You can better manage taxation
Hire and fire ministers
You can plant a fort anywhere and upgrade it.
You can promote units into generals or admirals
No more distance from capital penalty
Sanctions and blockades are more effective at crippling rivals then in previous installments.
Negative
grossly High system requirements, They needlessly tax your PC by having a animated 3d world map with bells and whistles instead of using a Prerendered campaign map.
The game has long loading times, Sluggish performance,I admit That's a subjective complaint since I haven't played it on a high end dual core PC, I am basing this off my experience with my own computer that barely reaches the minimum requirements despite having just upgraded.
Enemy AI is smarter, but still dumb !
Ending Turns takes to long to go through, since you need to cycle every freaking minor faction from the Barbary pirates to Inuit,Before you can begin the next turn.
Instead of managing your farms,Mines,harbors,factories from the regional capital, Each of these things needs to be managed from the individual villages,Towns and Ports doted all over the regional map , Which is time consuming and annoying since their hard to spot and there is no short cuts in the panel.
You cant train, Rakes ( spies/assassins) and Missionaries , You have to wait for them to spawn at random.
No more family tree, Your generals don't come from your royalty.
Your not rewarded with treasure when you capture new regions anymore.
Rome TW combat still seems more enjoyable compared to the 18 century warfare of Empire TW, The only fun thing is blowing shit up with canons.
The soundtrack is dull compared to RTW, Even MTW2.
Pussy age of enlightenment means no more crucifying populations, Sacking and pillaging, Holding troops and generals for ransom.