I’ve been tapped to see a lot of cool stuff at E3, but Empire: Total War is near the top of my own list of curiosities. We now have a release window of February 2009 (sigh) and a movie trailer that tells us nothing about the game, showing no gameplay at all.

I sort of get why companies put out movie trailers for their games, but I’d much rather see a screenshot of something I can use or expect than ten seconds of a naval battle and some vague allusions to the French revolution.