Good game with a nice gameplay. But still some little problems.
You can play a main campain, multiplayer and some historical battles, instant and quick battles.
The main campain:
You can play as five different nations: Great Britain, France, Austia,Prussia, Russia. They have there own pro's and contra's. Every nation has one single unit that's special for them. For the rest the other unit's are very similar, what I find very disapointhing. If you with the frech against the English you will almost encounter the very same unit ony the colours are different. You start of with some provinces and some small military units. You have to youre provincies with builings who supplie you with money, raw materials, population and scientific investigation. These 4"products" are needed for building new buildings, military units and new technoligies. You can play the campain in to ways. to first is the traditional way: By attacking and taking over provinces. But(yes, there's almost everywhere in this game a but) The first thing is that you can move from province to province, so I doesn't coun't for the speed and distance that you move if you have an army of canons or of cavalery!!! Also there can only be 3 armies of the same faction. That's something that's stupid because when you play it some houres the armies in the barracks are to great in number to be victorius. But the greatest problem is: when conquer a provence you distroy al buildings in provence. So you have build everything up from the ground.
The other way to play the campain is much better. The dimplomathique way. You can take over provinces by building buildings who increase the sympathie level of that country towards youre empire. It takes a long time but it's worth it. You get al it's recorces and buildings aren't destroyd and you'll get it's total army. This makes it unfair if you wanna play it the militairy style because the other nations go almost al the diplomatic style. The main campain ends when you destroy the other factions.
The Battlefield.
On Land.
Each provence has it's own battlefield. So, every place you fight in a provence is the same battlefield. This is somewhat disapoiting. For those of you who have played Rome Total War this is indead a contra. The units are very nice and beautifull to see also the maps are very nice. But there's a lack in original units. The maps are stabble even whit a great number of troups on it. Certainly when you play on a 256 video card. All units have endless ammo. This was the moust frustrating thing in the whole game for me. The tatics are good and realistic. To fight in Imperial Glory is realy nice for the eye but less good for someone who want's something more realistic. Good graphips whit disapointhing units and not very realistic.
On sea.
You might think Imperial Glory is a small Rome Total War, but there's one point Imprial is better than Rome. The sea battles there some!!!!
Yes, you can fight at sea with nice graphics and the watter lokes really nice. Even the better than I have seen ever. It's again realy beautifull. But there's again a problem with the realism factor. A frigate a sink 3 normal ships!!!
Very nice when you have a buch of them like say 3, and youre enemy has only 9 ships!!!!
This game has a great future when further worked out. It's a nice age: The age of Napolian. But because of small problems and enerving things the game doesn't live to it's potential. As the gamespot review says: This is a good clone of Rome Total War but it isn't Rome Total War.
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