{"id":1572,"date":"2009-06-22T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2009-06-23T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:07:20","slug":"empire-total-war-dlc-disappoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/22\/empire-total-war-dlc-disappoints\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire: Total War DLC Disappoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll still defend <em>Empire: Total War<\/em> to whomever wants to listen, but there is a bit of a consensus that the early reviews &#8211; mine included &#8211; were too generous to the game. Whatever. I like a lot of what it does and have continued to enjoy it in spite of the bugs in the original release. (I do wish I had caught the naval invasion bug. I was so good at sinking fleets that I thought it was me.)<\/p>\n<p>I am on board, though, with the DLC being a little bit lame. For $3.49 you can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/10604\/\">14 Elite Units of the West<\/a>. This is not the same as the 14 new units <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sega.com\/totalwar\/2009\/06\/18\/update-13-features-list\/\">you get with the latest patch<\/a> &#8211; these are super special guys like Hungarian Grenadiers and Freikorps troops.<\/p>\n<p>I get that they want to add a little more variety to armies that were pretty similar, but what I want are battles. Historical battles with Napoleon and Frederick and Marlborough and Clive. Come on, guys. Don&#8217;t let me down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll still defend Empire: Total War to whomever wants to listen, but there is a bit of a consensus that the early reviews &#8211; mine included &#8211; were too generous to the game. Whatever. I like a lot of what it does and have continued to enjoy it in spite of the bugs in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-pm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}