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Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« on: March 08, 2010, 03:37:58 PM »
For anyone that was put off by Empire Total War, don't let that stop you from picking the latest title up. It is far better then any previous TW versions even in new release vanilla form.

Every aspect imho has been improved, it even runs faster and with less stutters then ETW and with a good system the graphics and effects are stunning.


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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2010, 03:57:45 PM »
multiplayer campaign has some things that need to be worked out, such as if you are playing with a human ally and you wish to fight a battle on your own vs the AI, you are forced to autocalc it or let the human ally command the enemy forces. This is pointless, as they will be trying to do badly to help you both. They really need to redo the multi campaign system to have a movement phase simultaneously and then a battle phase the same. Autocalc-ing battles is just stupid and rarely worth bothering with. It's hard to understand what I mean unless you have tried to play a co-op campaign in multiplayer. The rest of the game is superb though.
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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2010, 04:09:07 PM »
I saw this game on the shelf the other day and went with Battlefield BC2 for that very reason (ETW sucked).  I will keep this in mind next time im in the store.  :aok

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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2010, 04:13:15 PM »
Wait this is out already??? In the US too?

I love ETW... maybe I should pick this up :D

Multiplayer campaign sounds squealing cool... that's something that I thought would be very cool in ETW.

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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2010, 04:33:02 PM »
Wait this is out already??? In the US too?


Yup, I bought it a couple days ago, but haven't had a chance to get into yet.  I've been waiting for a good Napoleonic warfare game for years.  I hope this one doesn't disappoint.

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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2010, 12:16:17 AM »
Its in the download queue in Steam right now. Can't wait to get it installed and waste some time on the plane with it on Wednesday morning.
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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2010, 09:07:25 AM »
Was on the fence for this. But receiving a Starcraft2 beta key last week changed things!!!  :rock
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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2010, 09:08:56 AM »
Only thing I don't like is it seems very narrow in scope. You really don't have a lot of latitude to do things however you want. It's very heavily scripted. I don't mind it so much with this title, but I hope this isn't a pattern that will continue with future releases.
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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2010, 09:50:51 AM »
I prefer ETW over NTW. Although I'd rather have MTW2 with the engine of ETW.

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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2010, 11:20:12 AM »
What is wrong with ETW?

I'm still enjoying it and my 10 year old has finished three or four campaigns.

In fact last night I sent an invasion force from India (playing Maratha Confederacy) to go take over Portugal because those pesky "Gees" keep sinking my trade ships.  They will find out why they should not have done that in a turn or two. 
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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2010, 01:15:39 PM »
Although I'd rather have MTW2 with the engine of ETW.

Yes please, that would be the best game yet.
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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2010, 02:19:53 PM »
I prefer ETW over NTW. Although I'd rather have MTW2 with the engine of ETW.
That would be cool...I've been out of the TW loop and haven't really played since MTW2 was so buggy. This new Napoleon game doesn't sound interesting...I'm still waiting for a U.S. Civil war version to come out.
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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2010, 03:07:25 PM »
This'll get you in the mood to play NTW or ETW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uclE3g2OU5I

The whole movie is posted by the same guy in like 15 parts.
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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2010, 03:54:18 PM »
They ruined it for me with ETW - I'm not going to be buying any more of their products until they are in the bargain bin - maybe not even then unless I hear about some good mods.

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Re: Napoleon Total War (Best TW Yet)
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2010, 04:01:54 PM »
What were the problems with ETW? Please don't tell me it was as buggy and lifeless as MTW2...

IMO RTW was the pinnacle...everything else is just eye candy.
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