4pm: Creative Assembly live interview

By Tom Bramwell Published 3 March, 2009

Quiz the Empire: Total War dev today.

Empire: Total War goes on sale tomorrow, 4th March, and for those of you who are still undecided, Creative Assembly's Kieran Brigden will be joining us for a live interview at 4pm GMT today to address your questions.

By now you probably know what's included in the box: massive campaigns, each as long as a regular RTS game; battle-map multiplayer and skirmish; naval battles; trade zones... As we put it last week in our 9/10 review, "Total War is scary big".

It's also scary good. "In some ways, it's the closest we've come to the enormous social novel from the period after that which Empire chronicles," Kieron Gillen wrote; "it's a Tolstoy-esque War and Peace of a game."

And if you want to ask Creative Assembly anything about it - like when that campaign multiplayer patch is coming out - just visit the homepage around 4pm GMT and click on what will be a very obvious pointer to the live interview.

As long as you have signed up for a free Eurogamer login, you will be able to contribute questions. Make 'em fierce.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • hiddenranbir #1 3 years ago

    Will all future games be locked into Steamworks?

    That will be my own concern.
    Edited by 1 at 03/03/09 @ 10:52

  • UncleLou #2 3 years ago

    Hopefully.

    Download anywhere, anytime, no disc needed: awesome. I can easily do without playing it a day before the official release day for these benefits.

  • Escher #3 3 years ago

    I thik steam is great but is there an offline mode for steam? Can be annoying when you have bought a game and on laptop without internet and then cant play a game you paid for.

  • hiddenranbir #4 3 years ago

    I don't see how you can hope for every future game to be locked into Steam. That's a dangerous path into monopoly if every publisher decides to use Steamworks.

  • UncleLou #5 3 years ago

    Well, I also support Gamersgate and Impulse, for example.

    But as far as recent copy protection schemes go, I'll take Steam over anything else anyday.

    If there's one thing I can't stand about Steam, it's the region-locking it allows. Under the pretense of respecting German law (which is nonsense, because every adult in Germany is allowed to play "banned" games), they actually violate EU laws.
    Edited by 1 at 03/03/09 @ 11:29

  • EzyRyder #6 3 years ago

    1st question
    Any possibility of having a World Wars: Total War game? It could start at the beginning of the 20th century and run till the beginning of the Cold War. Main challenge would be on how to factor air fights but I am sure with your expertise you would find a way (or may be they should be resolved in the same fashion as naval battles were in MTW2).

    2nd question
    I have found the strategic component of your previous games lacking a bit compared to the likes of Paradox’s Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron. Wouldn’t it be possible to combine both companies expertise and create the most complex strategic and tactical game of all times?

    3rd question
    How about a futuristic Total War game? You could use of the features used in Supreme Commander for the tactical battles (like huge maps and large transporters) plus a turn-based Master of Orion strategic map?

    4th question
    And finally how about revisiting the Shogun era?

  • Shroomthing #7 3 years ago

    Greetings,

    My question is;

    I heard word of downloadable content. What can we expect? New units and/or added landmass? Maybe even new factions? And of course...I wouldn't be dutch if I didn't ask, will it be free? :D
    Edited by 1 at 03/03/09 @ 12:25

  • PinkSpider #8 3 years ago

    @escher.

    Pretty sure their is an offline mode. Havent used it myself but when my connection has dropped it's given me the option.

  • EzyRyder #9 3 years ago

    EndWar is a nice experiment - but I wouldn't call it strategy, more tactic gameplay. Good effort though.

    I haven't played Halo Wars but doesn't seem as good as PC RTS - it is a start though.

    Thanks for the tip about Stormrise though

  • DarkBytes #10 3 years ago

    I am interested in why there is no preload via steam .

    it really is a poor show

  • hiddenranbir #11 3 years ago

    No preload because of staggered release - they say.

  • GSC #12 3 years ago

    My question:

    Will Courland (In ETW) will talk in Latvian?

  • matray #13 3 years ago

    Ok first question I would like to know is why you decided to make it easy for France to be conquered? We have heard you guys saying on the forums that they are not easy to conquer yet in the prussian camapign report France are destoroyed by none other than the United Provinces.

    Now I thought the game was going to be about gaining prestige but it seems that some nations are still intent on being the Milan of Med2. Are you going to be able to prevent this from happening? Or is it randomised?

    Thank you

  • Walzar #14 3 years ago

    1. I wonder why Sweden hasn´t got Pommernia or Bremen, sure you may say that the region would be too small... But Gibraltar or Malta for example is in the game so it can´t be that reason.

    2. Will the cities that pop-up in the game make their own regions or are they just gonna be there?

    3. Is their gonna be more then just one Finnish special unit (the Hakkapeliitta) or is it gonna be more.

    4. Why didn´t you include prisoners. It would be awesome if you could like be trading about the prisoners when you gonna end a war or something like that, but you wouldn´t be able to kill the prisoners obviously.
    Edited by 2 at 03/03/09 @ 16:05

  • killerrabbit1996 #15 3 years ago

    why's everyone posting questions already... he's not even here...

    dumasses....
    Edited by 1 at 03/03/09 @ 15:30

  • Linderasses #16 3 years ago

    lol you guys scared me for a bit, already making questions aha

  • jamtastic #17 3 years ago

    1. When is the campaign multiplayer 1v1 going to be available? Word around the campfire was it was going to ship out as a patch on release, but i've not had any official words on this!

    2. The most important question, when is Shogun 2 coming? :p

  • killerrabbit1996 #18 3 years ago

    omg, why are you guys posting already?

  • Catafrato #19 3 years ago

    1 - Will the full game run faster than the demo overall?

    2 - Is there any way we will be able to buy the 6 units pack separately, after the game is released?

  • Wilhelm-III #20 3 years ago

    Hello! how can u bloody whach the interview if ur just looking at it at 9:00 but i cant find it?!

  • Lordiishell #21 3 years ago

    The only thing I want to know is if Portugal is a playable faction on this one.....Man this game looks really awesome!

  • toonpc #22 3 years ago

    If you are going to have an expansion.
    Can you create a theatre of war about South east asia and add a factions like Siam or burmese?