Empire: Total War sets sail for February

By Robert Purchese Published 14 July, 2008

Creative Assembly on course.

SEGA plans to deploy Empire: Total War here on 6th February 2009.

That's according to the official website, where the date appeared like a well timed 18th Century naval attack.

Empire: Total War is the latest in the PC real-time strategy series, and will tackle themes such as the American struggle for independence, industrialisation, and the Eastern shipping routes.

Battles at sea will play a major role too, and are now fully controllable affairs, with broadsides, cutlasses and temperamental weather to worry about.

The Campaign Map element of the game will also undergo improvements. Trade, Diplomacy and Espionage should be better thought out, plus the user interface has been redesigned and more on-screen help added.

Developer Creative Assembly believes it is "the biggest and best Total War game" ever, which is quite some promise.

Head over to Eurogamer TV for the first proper Empire: Total War trailer.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • X201 #1 4 years ago

    Which means I've got 206 days to build a new PC
    Edited by 1 at 14/07/08 @ 10:15

  • MrChuckles #2 4 years ago

    I have 206 days to finally finish this damn campaign in Medieval TW:2.

    Stupid Mongols attacking Hamburg...

  • php_penguin #3 4 years ago

    I just hope they haven't neglected the land battles whilst making the sea battles rock...

    Unit formations and the proper use of units had better have big bonuses and penalties - using horse against line-infantry works well (bonus to horse, penalty to infantry) whereas using horse against infantry in sqaure hopefully results in one dead cavalry unit in 99% of cases...

    Also.. hopefully they won't fill the game with fucking speciality units (Uber-Elephants in Rome:TW for example)

  • Matfink #4 4 years ago

    Definitely a 'wait & see' - been burned every time by the previous TWs.
    Bugs are understandable in games of this complexity, but a limit on the number of patches to fix them is shocking.

  • hbunny #5 4 years ago

    Looking forward to this. Give the proto-yanks a good slapping.

  • Jigglybean #6 4 years ago

    I pray that this isnt as crap as MTW2 where we had to wait 6 months for the patch to fix the shocking AI

  • Mudo #7 4 years ago

    Still no screenshots of the campaign map so I'm still not interested.