It's medieval II: total war with makeup + Pirates (the game)

User Rating: 7 | Empire: Total War PC
Deception.

Total war series are always nice to play, and improvements are always welcome, but they should have make less noise on this one. If you're a hardcore fan of the series than u will surely like it.

If you're not, and you just like to play total war casually, you can wait until it's prize comes down.

why?

Well, The strategy map is as usual: Many options which you don't really need. Assassination, politics, etc, never really mattered in this game, where you can amass thousands and crush any country you want. So there is strategy only if you're into Role Play. otherwise you don't need any strategy.

Field battles. Nothing new in this one too, just cannons and riffles. that's all. AI as idiotic as usual. I saw cavaliers trying to rush into the infantry, and cancelling their action at the last second without any reason? (didnt even give any order at the time).

total war never really could set properly the Panic triggers and frequency in their series. They fail to adapt the real mind of a soldier in a battlefield. They should hire some war strategist, and retired generals to explain them how infantry acts, feels and think on the battlefields.

No new tactics, nothing new in the gameplay of battlefields.

The Sea.

Have you played sid meier's Pirates? Well, it's the same thing but with better graphics, and little more details. The sea battles could have been better if the crew on the ships were not there just modeling. They should have been actively synchronized with what the ship is doing. (You can see crew members just standing and staring right in the border of the ship without any reaction to a canon ball hitting their ship, even if it's right next to them).

So the crew on the ships are just there for eye candy. The only thing synchronized with the ship they do is to die sometimes if a canon hits right on their had, and jump into the sea when the ship sinks. It would also be nice if we could here some orders and shouting in the sea battles, instead of a deep silence when u zoom into the ships.

The only reason you should buy empire total war, is the look. It looks great, and units details are great. Nice clouds, lightning. But you're not their for sight seeing right?

Don't you players have enough of this new generation consoles and graphic cards scheme: All the new games are the old games we played again and again, same concepts re-heated with the only difference of better graphics?

Come on do something, buy such games way after they out of the markets so they can come up with more creative and less Look oriented games.

Nomailx