Napoleon: Total War
Posted on 13. Dec, 2009 by Cameron in Games, Napoleon news
Finally! We can now whisper in Bonaparte’s ear on the morning of the Battle of Waterloo and say “Don’t trust Grouchy!” Sega’s “Napoleon: Total War” comes out in Feb 2010 and let’s us take command at all of the major battles of Napoleon’s career.
I’m in discussions with Sega to arrange one of the programming leads on the game as a guest on the show! The only shame is – the game doesn’t run on Mac!
I’m going to have to assign a week in February for this.
Have you played previous games in this series? Empire: Total War is a prequel in two ways: the previous game released, plus covering the 1700s before 1789.
Not on a Mac? Then what’s the point?
I’d like someone to review this for the INS site, if someone is willing.
I’d be happy to review it, David.
This is such a pleasent news. I always dreamed of a game such as this, so I can make Napoleon even more legendary than he is. Let’s just hope I make a decent marshal of the empire
bahhhhh!! the only good game about napoleon is http://www.europauniversalis3.com/
This game is absolutely awesome! I’ve been playing it for a week and have enjoyed stepping into Le Empereur’s shoes. I’m currently in the process of conquering egypt and have almost finished the historical battles. It’s so hard to beat Wellington at Waterloo! His position is nigh impregnable!
I got Napoleon on release day. I love it. I’m going to write an in depth review soon though, I just want to give the game a bit more play time first!
It is a grand old game. I have been a fan of Total War games for a while, and the changes are not huge between this and Total War Empire (The previous edition in the series, released Jan/Feb 2009), but although not numerous, the changes do really make the game much more “Napoleonic” Generals, improved (historical) turn times, Troop types etc make it very enjoyable. I would give it a 4.5/5
To further the review… The one issue is that you cannot really deploy enough troops. The maximum (from memory) is 18-20 Units, with each unit having between 30 (Cavalry) and 80 (Fusiliers or Militia) figures. I have read somewhere that the figures are supposed to represent 10 men each (sort of like a squad symbol) That (according to my poor math) means at most you are commanding around 12000-14000 men. No Borodino’s here.
Having said that, it is quite realistic. Morale, quality of generals, troop types, the effectiveness of artillery on troops, cavalry pursuit are all excellent. The terrain is amazing, but this is normal for the TW series as they apparently use satellite photography and model it in 3D. So you are actually fighting in Europe of the 1800’s. All in all, if you like strategy games, you will enjoy this very much.