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Entries Tagged as 'Creative Assembly'
Empire: Total War – Embiggening Everything
February 26th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Creative Assembly
I’m reviewing this for 1up, so you’ll have to wait a week or so before you get my final verdict on Creative Assembly’s new game. But, boy, is this big. The battle maps seem to sprawl on forever. I’m partly astonished by the sheer size of the battles and partly discouraged by how distant everything [...]
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Diplomacy Improved in Empire: Total War
February 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Creative Assembly, Preview
Over on Gamespot, Andrew Park has uploaded an interview with Creative Assembly’s James Russell. Key bits include: Deeper diplomatic model: These relationships provide the backdrop to the negotiations that players will be involved with as they strive to develop a network of trade partners and allies, or negotiate military access to enable them to further [...]
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But Will it Fly?
December 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Creative Assembly, Multiplayer
The Total War games have always had a fairly interesting multiplayer battle game. You line up your Frenchmen, your friend pulls out his English longbows, and then you have at it. The most recent iteration, Total War: Kingdoms, implemented hotseat play for the campaign, but hotseat PC gaming hasn’t really been popular since I was [...]
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Empire: Total War Q&A
December 5th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Creative Assembly, Gameshark
I sometimes flake on linking my Gameshark stuff, but here’s my recent Q&A with Creative Assembly about the upcoming Empire: Total War. This is the game highest on my radar for 2009.
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A Dubious Pre-Order Gift and more
October 29th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Creative Assembly, Industry, Napoleonics
If you pre-order Empire: Total War, you will get Rome: Total War for free. Yeah, Rome is half a decade old. But I would think that most of the people who would consider pre-ordering Empire already have Rome. You can get it very cheaply now, after all. No word on whether or not Barbarian Invasion [...]
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