Napoleon: TW confirms campaign MP

By Robert Purchese Published 20 January, 2010

Conquer the world with a friend.

SEGA and Creative Assembly have announced full campaign co-op integration for Napoleon: Total War.

Finally you'll be able to plot a global conquest alongside a friend - or against them. But note that only one other person can play with you for the time being.

Creative Assembly has also developed a new drop-in battle system where real people can take over as commander of the AI force for one battle.

Campaign co-op is being tested in Empire: Total War as we speak. The beta began in December, which we hope means these ground-breaking features (for the series) will be well oiled by Napoleon's launch on 23rd February.

And those aren't the only improvements on offer - head over to our hands-on impressions of Napoleon: Total War from last week to find out more.

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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 2 years ago

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  • Quickstick4 #1 2 years ago

    good :-) Empires Beta was good fun to play with a freind and im glad they have implemented this fully. My consider buying it, although I still don't feel like i have "finished" empire....

  • hiddenranbir #2 2 years ago

    Before someone says it: You feel it because Empire isn't 'finished'.

    But seriously, good fun. I'll be British, mate can be the French. Sorted.

  • Zaiz #3 2 years ago

    *facepalm*

    Drop in drop out multiplayer, get to play an army that the AI has wisely lead into a totally unwinnable position! Yaaaaay! Get to play features promised to the people who bought empire, yaaaay! Get all the patches promised to the people who bought empire, yaaay!

    >.> And so on and so forth. I bet that the multiplayer campaign will be "dlc" for Empire users.

  • MrMud #4 2 years ago

    Dont worry, It wont be out until 10 months after release

  • Olemak #5 2 years ago

    Ok, fine. What about a sequel or prequel for Viking: Battle for Midgard now? Please?

  • hiddenranbir #6 2 years ago

    Don't think it did much financially. They'd get more luck, imo, if it had Total War campaign light gameplay and then action of you controlling one guy in a Total War sized battle. Hell to the yes?

  • makeamazing #7 2 years ago

    Personally i dont care about MP, I just want a good (and relatively bug free) single player experience. :|