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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Empire Campaign Video
October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Creative Assembly, Preview
The third of five Empire: Total War videos can be found here. It has a little more information about the campaign mode, but not much. Which I suppose is to be expected. The campaign stuff doesn’t make for stirring video. Moving armies, clicking buttons, reading menus…This is not gameplay you would pay to see. We […]
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Empire: Total War on Land
September 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Creative Assembly, Preview
Not a lot of stuff we didn’t know in the new trailer (number two of five), but that hasn’t stopped me from writing yet. 1) The campaign map looks great in the three seconds we see of it. I expect that will be the next thing we’ll see. 2) Elephants. Always with the elephants. Part […]
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More E3 Previews and Total War
July 22nd, 2008 · 9 Comments · Creative Assembly, E3
Dragon Age: Origins Empire: Total War Velvet Assassin Dungeon Hero Of these four, I am, naturally, most excited about Empire: Total War. Now I am perfectly ready for this game to not be great, but from the fifteen minute demo I saw last week I can’t imagine Empire being anything less than very good. The […]
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Empire: Total War Trailer and Release Date (and a rant)
July 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Creative Assembly
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 […]
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