PC/Mac/Linux Empire: Total War

Data de lançamento oficial anunciada e requerimentos mínimos:

Get ready for Total War from March 3rd 2009
Release dates and minimum system specifications for Empire: Total War announced

LONDON (28th January, 2008) – SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced that the next iteration of the critically acclaimed Total War™ series, Empire: Total War will be shipped to stores in North America and Canada from the 3rd March and available to buy in stores around the world from the 4th March. In addition, customers will be able to purchase the game as a digital download from 18:00 GMT on the 3rd of March, with the exception of North American and Canadian customers who will be able to purchase a digital download from 09:00 GMT on the 4th of March.

Please note that all retail and digital download copies require activation via STEAM, the leading online platform for PC games and digital entertainment. If purchased via STEAM, pre-loading will be available 48 hours in advance of the release date in your territory. For more information about STEAM please visit www.steampowered.com.

The minimum system specifications for Empire: Total War are:
Operating System: Windows XP 32(service pack 2), Windows Vista 32 OS.
Processor: 2.4 GHz Single Core Intel or AMD equivalent processor.
System Memory: 1GB RAM (XP) 2GB RAM (Vista).
Graphics Card: 256MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (shader 2.0 or higher).
Sound Card: Directx9.0c compatible sound card.
Windows compatible mouse & keyboard.
15 GB free uncompressed hard drive space.

Empire: Total War is set in the 18th century, a turbulent era that is the most requested by Total War’s loyal fan base and a period alive with global conflict, revolutionary fervour and technological advances. With themes such as the Industrial Revolution, America’s struggle for independence, the race to control Eastern trade routes and the globalisation of war on land and sea, Empire: Total War promises to be the richest and most dynamic PC strategy game of all time. Empire: Total War will be released from the 3rd of March, exclusively for PC.
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Empire Total War Developer Interview

Primeira review: 94/100 na PCGamer

Algumas notas sobre a review:

The review is by a journalist called Jim Rossignol who is a decent writer but, imo, not the best reviewer. He's also not a long term TW fan despite writing last months retrospective on the other TW games. Chances are he will be looking at the game from a different perspective to us.

Anyway: he says that he went GB in his campaign and the victory conditions were to control Egypt and a chunk of both India and North America. He says that he had to do a lot of "buttering up" to avoid wars with Spain and France to reduce pressure on his shipping and maintain the 13 colonies.

The map is split into two sections: NA and Eurasia. "The core map stretches from Iceland on the top left to Sri Lanka on the Bottom right"

He says the 4 trade regions: SA, the Ivory Coast, the straits of Madagascar and the East Indies are purely coastal.

"Once at war with the Ottoman Empire, my Great Britain campaign saw me bottling up the Ottoman fleet in the Mediterranean, keeping my Atlantic traders safe from attack"

"An empire can have up to 4 eductational establishments and use them to research many different technologies at once."

You have to balance where your money goes between investing in tech and getting the lead on the battlefield and leaving your populace underdeveloped. Not researching democracy leads to negative sentiment and a chance of a revolution.

"the tech tree and research process is one of the areas that Empire seems to have nailed down best." He likes the feedback from the main game based on your choices there whether it better bayonets or increased farm revenue. He says the tech races really pay off and that you can share tech via the diplomacy screen.
It sounds like enemies will raze your outlying towns and infrastrructure if you bunker down in your capital.

The campaign Multiplayer won't ship with the game

"To take the regions required for a Grand Campaign win condition will always result in armed conflict"

"There's still some errant unit activity" But he says it is improved over previous games.

"The harder AI has been an absolute bastard to take on toe-to-toe. Enemy Generals work to split your ranks or to funnel you into the firing line of cannon, or to avoid your flanking tactics. They'll drive through your lines then fan back around, attempting to split and isolat your troops."

"It starts to feel like a more mature game"

"It's about judging firing arcs and reloading times and coaxing enemies into a killing field"

"The most crucial problem for me is that the new real-time naval battles, although spectacular, are unconvincing" He says that they don't feel like sailing ships and that the battles just descend into chaos. Managing more than a handful of ships becomes a chore. they're too much like a naval version of land battles rather than a unique approach for a totally different type of warfare. "I found myself rapidly defaulting to auto resolve fleet conflicts"

"the Ai turns remain achingly slow"

Then he writes about how much he loved the game and can't stop playing it.

Info from the box outs and screens: Knights of Malta are in and there's a pirate capital in Antigua.
There are missionaries as campaign map units.
Ports can be fisheries, trading ports or military ports.
the area of influence round ships is sizeable at a gues i'd say it extends about 75 miles in every direction so a single fleet controls about 150miles of coastline. Therefore two fleets will be able to deny the south coast of England to invaders with ease.
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I just read the review as well

I don't think the OP's quotes reveal all the undertones of the review, more specifically: quite how ecstatic the reviewer is about the game. One thing that jumped right out at me was:

'this is one of the most playable, and therefore important and accomplished, games ever created'.

or

'A game could be a high scoring instance of a ludicrously niche genre that only a handful of people will ever get a kick out of, and therefore would not earn the Must Buy. Occasionally though, we give a high score to an instance of a ludicrously niche genre that everybody will get a kick out of. That's precisely why Empire: Total War gets a Must Buy award.'

and also how vast and intricate the game is, the final summary describes it as 'immense' 'intricate' and 'intensely detailed' but not 'a quick go' or 'easily mastered' or 'done yet' (most probably in reference to the multiplayer campaign mode)

However the review is not very informative at all, and only talks about his limited personal experience and not so much about the game as a whole, and includes little by way of factual details for us to make up our own mind with. The reviewer does talk about how sea battles are a little overwhelming, but could not be avoided seeing as it is a historical period all about sea faring.
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Fonte

Também foi confirmado por um developer da Creative Assembly que a versão analisada não é a versão final que vai ser lançada em Março.

We've already responded to criticism about the naval battles since the reviewer wrote the article and have improved the fun factor at sea quite a bit.
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Although the game is almost finished, we're still tweaking and improving until release (and will continue to do so after release, of course)!
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JonyJC disse:
Ainda é muito cedo para dizer isso mas eu mais do que ninguém espero que sim.
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Ei, tu mais que ninguém não! Eu espero isso ainda mais que tu. :D (kidding)

Este é o jogo que definitivamente tem mais potencial para danificar seriamente a minha estrutura social e familiar. :P

Caramba, se o Diablo 3 saísse ao mesmo tempo que este eu acabaria por me tornar albino. LOL
 
Joguei Medieval II e... adorei.

Simplesmente fantástico, não li as interviews, mas alguém me pode dizer se vai estar disponível Modo Campaign online? É que no Medieval era preciso andar a fazer save e a mandar ao outro, isto automatizado nem era muito mau, mas pronto... não é a mesma coisa.

Bem, estive a fazer uma pesquisa rápida no Google, e parece que Portugal é mencionado nos posts do fórum da série.

This time period is rich of great nations vying for power, in Europe, America, and India (the struggle between the Marathas and the Mughals took place in this century, with the English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch meddling in local affairs and destabilizing both local empires). Expect many epic confrontations between great powers, which can sometimes be too dangerous to be fought in home territories.
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(vi num outro fórum e entretanto fiz copy/paste para o MSN para mostrar, se alguém souber exactamente de onde isto for tirado agradecia que se pronunciasse :P)

Já agora, parece que há uma votação a decorrer http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=120116 -> Votem na inclusão de Portugal xD (acho que o site está down, mas ainda há umas horas lá estive numa outra secção, just keep on trying).

Não sei se já tinha dito... ok sei... mas... Total Wars é um Mundo à parte, é realmente um jogo fantástico (nem joguei muito já agora, mas cheguei a comprar e é mesmo algo de qualidade).

Edit: pelos vistos é preciso 50 posts no fórum do Total War para votar. De qualquer maneira deixo o link, pode ser que alguém que tenha lá conta ainda não tenha visto :P
 
A serie TOTAL WAR perdeu pra mim um pouco o interesse a partir do momento em que incluíram armas de fogo no jogo... Talvez por saber que a partir dessa época foi "all the way down" até ao ponto de se poder exterminar uma cidade com o carregar dum butão lol Lutas Homem Vs Homem é que era! :boxing_sm

Joguei ao ROME e adorei, mt provavelmente irei exprimentar este, gráficamente parece muito bom!
 
A demo vai sair amanhã :D

I am pleased to report that our official Empire: Total War demo will be available via Steam from 4pm GMT on Friday 20th February.

Giving you a taste of the epic engagements that you'll be experiencing from 3rd March, the demo will take you through the basics of land and naval command and then unleash you in two historical battles!

You will get to play as the mighty British Empire as they do battle against the Americans in the 'Battle of Brandywine Creek' and then take on the French Navy in the 'Battle of Lagos'...

Battle of Brandywine Creek

After landing from his transport ships on the American coast, Major-General Sir William Howe led the British troops eastwards, with the intention of capturing Philadelphia.

In preparation, American General George Washington readied most of his units to defend from this frontal assault around the narrow crossing of Chad's Ford on the Brandywine. The Creek flows through the countryside of Pennsylvania, enveloped by sheer cliffs and heavily wooded hills on both sides. Safe in the knowledge the fast flowing creek could not easily be crossed; Washington was confident of holding his position.

However, more detailed surveillance of the terrain would suggest that alternative routes could turn the battle in the favour of the British.

Battle of Lagos

As so often in 18th Century warfare, French plans to invade England during the Seven Years War were reliant on ships from the naval base at Toulouse joining ships from Brest. The British had both ports blockaded, and the French had to wait for one of the blockading fleets to withdraw for re-supply before attempting any rendezvous.

The opportunity came when the British fleet under Admiral Boscawen at Toulon withdrew to Gibraltar. The French under Jean-François de la Clue-Sabran left Toulon, and began to make their way towards Brest. Passing the Straits of Gibraltar, the French were spotted by Boscawen's lookout ships.

Giving chase, Boscawen's fleet was only slightly larger than the French force, and caught up with them off the coast of Portugal where battle was joined. Take control of the British and defeat the French to end the invasion threat to Britain.
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Estou curioso. A ver se saco a demo..

O total war original foi para mim um vicio, depois só experimentei um pouco o Rome, mas na altura não tive muito tempo para me dedicar.
Este empire se tiver porreiro [batalhas navais FTW!!] deve voltar a agarrarme à serie...
 
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