Empire Total War

[natty]

[TerriblePizza]

I am so stoked for this. I've been waiting for a Victorian-era TW since Rome.

This game is one of the reasons I went ahead and decided to upgrade my computer.

[natty]

I'm worried about everything being based on gunpower weapons because I always felt they were underpowered in the medieval games, but I'm sure they can make it work. I really love that they've added real time naval combat - that's something total war fans have wanted from the beginning.

[natty]

Demo has been out and the game is released on the 4th.

The loading times on the demo are horrible (like 5 minutes horrible) but this game is going to kick some major ass. TONS of re-play value.

[TerriblePizza]

Who do you get to play as in the demo?

[natty]

There's 2 tutorials and 2 real battles(like the historical battles they've always had) you play as Britain on land and sea.

The land battle is against the US the sea battle is against France. It's kind of weird killing George Washington, but hey, gotta do what you gotta do.

There are full releases to certain press out there and from what I'm reading the scope is going to be MASSIVE. Basically taking a small portion of Europe is like a full campaign in Medieval 2.

[TerriblePizza]

Whens the release date? I may have my Dad buy it and bring it to me when he comes over here. I don't want the game in Spanish.

[natty]

You can download it through Steam and get an English version. It comes out on Wed and you can pre-download it starting tomorrow I think.

[TerriblePizza]

You can download it through Steam and get an English version. It comes out on Wed and you can pre-download it starting tomorrow I think.

fug. Are they going to require Steam to play it? I get my internet through a 3G modem dongle and it doesn't work with my fugin' Vista 64bit machine. Or, at least, I can't find the drivers.

So, the only internet I have is through my netbook.

[natty]

I don't know if it's only through Steam. I would guess not.

[TerriblePizza]

I don't know if it's only through Steam. I would guess not.

If its on steam, you can only play it with steam running even if you're playing offline. Its a pain in the ass. I have Left4Dead and I haven't been able to play because of my connection and Steam.

[CanadianCat]

hey this is great - i am not a teckie at all, years ago when i would buy computer games i would just cross my fingers and hope that they would work on my old computer. i actually just bought a new one the other day and am not sure if this game will work on it (they never compare apples to apples on the specs they give you the specs)

so maybe you guys can help me out. this is what i got.

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q8300 (4MB L2, 2.5GHz, 1333FSB)

6GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4DIMMs

ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB

is that going to be enough??

[CanadianCat]

haha i actually bought this computer, basically to just so me and my wife can do our university courses on it, but then the when she didnt look upgraded the ram and the video card.... haha am i a terrible person?

[bredy087]

Yeah youll be fine!

Man friday cant come fast enough (pay day.) Ive been waiting for this game since medieval 2 was out. This is going to be the best one so far. The campaign map looks awesome along with naval battles. CANT WAIT!