Empire: Total War
Empire: Total War introduces a host of revolutionary new features, including true 3D naval combat. For the first time in the Total War series, you will be able to intuitively command single ships or vast…
Empire: Total War is a real time strategy (rts) developed by The Creative Assembly, released 3 March 2009 on Android, iOS, Linux and Mac.
What Empire: Total War is
Empire: Total War is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2009. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on TW Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Empire: Total War is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. The fifth instalment in the Total War series, the game was released in 2009. The game, which focuses on the early modern period of the 18th century, was announced at the Leipzig Games Convention in August 2007. Feral Interactive released the game for OS X and Linux in 2014, and for Android and iOS in 2024.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Total War series
Empire: Total War is the sixth of 56 entries we hold in the Total War series. It arrived 2 years after Medieval II: Total War. The next entry was Napoleon: Total War in 2010. Its critic score of 90 is 7 points above the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Rome: Total War at 91.
How it was received
Empire: Total War holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Players rate it 84, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® or greater or AMD® Athlon® equivalent CPU, 1 GB RAM (XP,) 2 GB RAM (Vista™) and 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 15GB.
What it launched against
Empire: Total War launched on 3 March 2009, within three weeks of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Empire: Total War yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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