Empire: Total War - Dev Diary #1

Published 23 May, 2008 Duration 3:02

Creative Assembly discusses upcoming PC strategy game Empire: Total War in the first of what will presumably be a series of developer diaries.

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  • T4RG4 #1 4 years ago

    Interesting! Just make it a good game please. ta.

  • php_penguin #2 4 years ago

    looks like it could be good... CA have never let me down yet.

  • idol #3 4 years ago

    Wow! This looks good!

  • Shrimp #4 4 years ago

    Is it wrong of me to say "Shut the fuck up and fix the strategy AI?"

    Probably.

  • OliverH #5 4 years ago

    Fencing moves look more like show than like fighting

  • Davemanz #6 4 years ago

    Can't wait. Hopefully the new engine will have AI reworked from the bottom up so the funny things won't happen as often. Either way, CA has always gone above and beyond expectations in its strategy titles at least.

  • Mechstra #7 4 years ago

    Shrimp - Is it wrong of me to say "Shut the fuck up and fix the strategy AI?"

    Well, yes, considering they've admitted the flaws in the campaign AI of the previous games and have said they'll fix it.

  • Wyrm #8 4 years ago

    *Is it wrong of me to say "Shut the fuck up and fix the strategy AI?"

    Yes. Because when the game comes out you'd be saying, yeah the AI is great, but why does it animate like shit?

  • marilena #9 4 years ago

    Maybe I'm dumb, but I never had problems with the AI in Total War games. I haven't played Medieval 2, though. Still, Rome: Total War was one of the best games ever, so the amount of negativism in this thread is surprising to me.

  • thewolfiv #10 4 years ago

    Shogun you fools, redo it! why all these other games?
    rome was great iadmit but shogun can't be bettered with it's setting.

  • CountZero #11 4 years ago

    Am I mad or did they misspell "Strategy" in the title graphics? Around 0:12 or so. A tad embarrassing, methinks.

  • Shrimp #12 4 years ago

    Sorry, I'm just bitter. I remember back in Shogun and Medieval 1 (and then maybe also Rome) battles that really felt like they meant something - setting up ambushes, brave last stands, etc. That just seems to have faded away more and more with each iteration. And that's not even mentioning the strategy map AI, although that was always a bit flaky.

    I suspect the involvement of focus groups.

  • AphoticCosmos #13 4 years ago

    Looks good, me want

  • SentientNr6 #14 4 years ago

    I loved the total war series. Loved Rome the most. Hated shogun for it's geisha's or maybe my generals temptation to geisha's. Medieval 2 was a bit of a letdown but still better than other strategy games. I am not too fond of the setting of this TW but will try and see what they make of it.

  • manveruppd #15 4 years ago

    I don't understand why they hire "professional stuntmen", who to me as a fencer who does both modern sports fencing and historical combat, looked very rigid and ungraceful in their movements. There are hundreds of professional historical combat coaches within 200km of their headquarters who could have done this with more flair and panache than a Hollywood swashbuckling movie and would have been a lot more knowledgeable about aspects of historical accuracy than the Sharpe tv-movies which were apparently the extent of their "research"!

  • Alithian #16 4 years ago

    manveruppd is right, and for that I will smile. I am still looking forward to the game, though.

  • Talbot #17 4 years ago

    I'm sorry but the AI and unit cohesion in both RTW and MTW II was so appallingly bad I smashed my space bar out in frustration. May I have issues? Possibly. Shogun is by far the best in the series. I don't care about zooming in, thats so boring after 2 minutes, I don't care about ultra fancy graphics, this is a frickin' strategy game. Empire better live up and they better have sorted out all the game breaking issues. I'll buy it anyway just to slaughter the Yanks, for God knows whatever reason, they decided to add.

  • sebex12 #18 3 years ago


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