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PC News by Dan Pearson
SEGA has announced a definite street date of 4th March for 18th-century battlefield strategy title Empire: Total War.
The PC exclusive will be hitting store shelves a day earlier in the US and Canada, when it will also become available via Steam in the rest of the world. Oddly, the North American Steam release will be delayed until the 4th, bringing a nice, rounded sense of parity to proceedings.
The Imperial epic takes the long-running series into the age of steam and sail, a period encompassing the Industrial Revolution, the war of American Independence and the invention of the top hat.
Fans have been clamouring at Creative Assemby's door for a series instalment in the hearty Eighteenth Century for some time now - the era was "the most requested period" to play host to the new title.
There'll be all of the usual grand-scale conflict, with tactical nous bringing home the battlefield bacon, whilst the new naval encounters have got the bedroom admirals polishing their cannons in rapt anticipation. On top of that, expect scurrilous dealings with spies, diplomats, bishops and gentlemanly international cricket fixtures.
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makeamazing
27/01/09 @ 19:21
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No way getting this on steam, this is one that i want a nice lovely box for :)
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SixFootHalfling
27/01/09 @ 23:39
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@glottis0
I think Empire has to be registered with steam to play, and it definitly does for the special edition, as you have to register to download the content |
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KillerMonkey
28/01/09 @ 04:41
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^ Steam isn't that bad. Certainly worth going through it for a new TW game imo.
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You're not buying this because of Steam activation?
Steam is great, and we should embrace it if they use Steam as a copy protection instead of anything else. So you have to make an account and activate it online - this will take you the best part of 5 minutes. Some people are a bit too fussy for their own good. |
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"More beneficial for me to steal it"?
What the hell is that meant to mean? I imagine it's 'more beneficial' to steal any game, since you then always pay fuck all and are just generally a thieving cockend. Or have you developed some sort of mind-numbing twisted logic to defend not buying a game, just because it goes against some baseless emo-style terror you have of DRM because you once read Slashdot and got all nerd ragey? |
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They're turning a buyers market into a sellers market taking several of your rights away embarking DRMs and you're applauding it? The critical consumer is truely dead.
Nonsense. There's the critical consumer, and there's the conservative, dogmatic luddite. Steam friends list, no need to keep the DVD in the drive, option to download it via Steam even if you bought the boxed verison on different PCs far outweigh any disadvantages. So, what's left? No resale. Which isn't really an option for PC games, anyway, let alone for multiplayer ones, regardless of Steam. |
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Grom, there's nothing wrong with pointing out the moral penalty of piracy, but doing so in such a way does you no favours (piracy = emo?).
On topic, I'd only ever played a bit of Total War (Rome, I think) around a friend's, but I think this will be my first purchase of the series. It looks fantastic from what I've seen so far. Stupid that I can't buy it from Steam at that ridiculous price though - I'll end up paying for pressing, packaging delivery and retailer's cut, then just chuck the box in the bin the minute it comes through the door. All I need is a sequence of 15 characters, it's so silly. But this is suposed to be a positive comment. Yay! for more Total War. |
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You wrote this:
What the hell is that meant to mean? I imagine it's 'more beneficial' to steal any game, since you then always pay fuck all and are just generally a thieving cockend. Or have you developed some sort of mind-numbing twisted logic to defend not buying a game, just because it goes against some baseless emo-style terror you have of DRM because you once read Slashdot and got all nerd ragey? And then wrote this: some people have an emotional reaction to DRM beyond what is justifiable Irony asplosion?
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