Empire: Total War gets Warpath add-on News
PC News by Robert Purchese
SEGA has announced a downloadable Warpath expansion for Empire: Total War.
Due October on Steam for £5.99 (€6.99), the add-on opens a North American campaign and brings five new factions to the table: Iroquois, Huron, Plains, Pueblo and Cherokee. They'll be playable and battle the stinky European invaders during the campaign.
The tribes have a new tech tree to explore and units to create, and can be picked for multiplayer bouts as well.
SEGA also reminds us that the Empire: Total War patch 1.4 will be out tomorrow, 22nd September. This adds a couple of historical scenarios to play with and clears up some minor bugs.
Head over to our Empire: Total War - Warpath gallery for the first batch of screens and art.
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SleepyDeathFred
21/09/09 @ 17:55
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I'm finding the whole American focus a bit boring. Where is the (whole) Seven Years War, the almost constant warfare between Britain, France and Spain? The game seems to have forgotten that relentless British expansion was by far the most notable change in this period (at least in terms of what a strategy game can represent!) - the eighteenth century was Our century, not the Americans'!
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BlackBabyJesus
21/09/09 @ 18:37
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I agree with SleepyDeathFred.
Fighting as or against the native americans is far from the most exciting thing in a 1700's game. |
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I still feel like I got burned buying Empire. To be honest, I think the series has gone down hill after the original Medieval. I'm not interested in buying anymore Total War unless they change the current course. A shame, because I thought the first games were epic.
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SleepyDeathFred
21/09/09 @ 20:04
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@ Turambar
Yeah, where are the Space Marines, the forces of Mordor or the shadowy Brotherhood of Nod? Surely someone more fun to play than the nations/countries of the early modern period should have been represented! |
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StooMonster
21/09/09 @ 23:09
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DLC on Steam this time, I wish the Fallout 3 expansions were likewise.
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SleepyDeathFred
22/09/09 @ 06:42
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You may have a point, Turambar, but really, what were you expecting from the experience? I guess I'm just wondering why buy?
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how can people say the series went downhill etc.?? Apart from the shed load of bugs it was released with, the strategy and battle elements of the games are huge steps forward from all its predecessors. At release this game was unplayable due to the ridiculous amount of bugs but now it has stabilized and must say it's a cracking game in all aspects.
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hiddenranbir
22/09/09 @ 08:36
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Time to do a GERANIMO and hound the WHITE MAN. Even though I'm a century out!
ayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay! At least this hints at Empire having quite a long half life. Franky I hope next for some campaigns in India. |
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Yep, Total Wars is becoming old news, even with the naval battles, etc... the game is basicly the same since the first Shogun Total War, take out the cosmetics and some features that don't work as they should like diplomacy and you got the same game as Shogun. I bet that next in the series will be Rome 2: another graphical update, maybe some naval battles with roman galleys, and there you have, more of the same...
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why is Creative Assembly incapable of actually expanding their games? why do they insist on giving us pathetic little mini campaigns instead of actually intorucing more content & starting times into the grand campaign (which is what the total war games areactually about). if i buy this it will only be for the mods that will eventually reintroduce stuff into the grand campaign like CA should be doing. and if the next game demonstrates their continued complete inability to write decent campaign map AI then i won't make the mistake of buying it like i did with empire.
some other developer really needs to enter this genre. a bit of competition would do the world of good. |
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SixFootHalfling
22/09/09 @ 22:29
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So essentially faction.playable = true?
For £6, they can fuck off, I ran through a campaign to unlock these, as its always a laugh playing with swords against cannons, and was pissed when I found out they weren't playable. As there are mods available that do exactly this, I can't see me paying for this any time soon. |
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More content?! Each TW game contains it's own unit list of about 250 units, 20 factions (most playable, some not), 400+ buildings, plus map, tech, mechanics and timeline overhauls, and you're whining about wanting more content for free when you see a DLC announcement? There's obviously some truth in what they say about the online TW community...
It looks ok, and I'm sure it'll find takers, though the American tribes are not my cup of tea. |
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