SUBSIM's totally awesome Empire: Total War thread
 

For anyone who hasnt seen the new IGN interview

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/866/866990p1.html

After reading that and looking at the new screenshots, ETW is definitely looking like its going to be the best total war yet :up:

Great find AJ, this looks fantastic, can't wait too see how much detail they manage to cram in on the naval side. Looks like we might finally get the great age of sail game we have waited so long for. I hope the naval battle maps are a decent size, in "Imperial Glory" they were a complete joke.

I just hate when games take the "big leap" and then make it about something I'm not that interested of. Give me RTW with those graphics! :yep:

I'm the opposite. The period 'Empire' is covering is far more interesting to me than the Roman era. I went through what you're talking about when they did Rome: Total War, though.

:up:Looks good,

I'm very looking forwards to Naval battles and such.
would like to see more about the ground units thought.

HunterICX

My guess is that its gonna be to processor heavy for me to play but indeed the Roman Era is more interesting then ETWs era. To me at least.

Then again I've all but retired playing the Total war series. Hearts of Iron 2 is way better in my humble opinion :P

Man, i've always been looking forward to gunpowder era warfare in Total War. M2TW hinted at it but now it's finally happening.

The era is also original by TW standards. Valley Forge and Trafalgar and Austerlitz oh my.

This definatly looks like it's going to be the best TW game yet, especially now that they're finally adding naval combat

Well, There's my life going down the toilet, ah well, I never needed that thing anyway :p

The game looks like its come on leaps and bounds from the early screenshots (the ships dont look as shiny as they used too)

The only problem is they are still holding back on land battle screenshots :shifty:

I see they are talking about pushing into the 19th Century and have some steam train still shots, which begs the question will we see steam warships in the game too?

I would definatly like to see either the game going into the mid-1800s up to the early-1900s or an expansion going in that direction, with Ironclads, Monitors, Armored Cruisers and Pre-Dreadnoughts and all that

There could be a chance. It does look interesting, like M2TW going into early gunpowder age

This game is my most anticipated game of 2008 (it even beats Spore).

Medieval 2 was probably one of my most played games ever and this one looks like it will be another one. But it was pushed back to Q4, which is unfortunate.

CA says they've been working on this game for about 4 years,so hopefully it won't be as buggy as RTW and MTW2 were on release.

I'm still kinda annoyed that they didn't update STW with the RTW engine like they did with MTW. After all,if it wasn't for Shogun's success there wouldn't be a Total War franchise.

its 50/50 for me about revamping STW in a new jacket.

first of all I sometimes reinstall the game (including the Expansion) and play it for a while, the game has good memories as I played the game nuts when it was out, what really stayed with me was the Music it suited perfectly with the game also the cutscenes where nice.

thought I would like to see it in graphics of today but I guess it wouldnt be the same thing you played back then.

dificulty of the TW engine is that they have to pick era's where people somewhat run into eachother in large box formations I think the Imperial Era would be the last era it would be posible to do so.

HunterICX