Empire: Total War Soundtrack Available For Pre-Order

Through their licensing relationship with SEGA leading game soundtrack distributor Sumthing Else are about to release the score to the PC RTS game Empire: Total War.

The Empire: Total War Soundtrack features an epic orchestral score composed primarily by lead composer Richard Beddow (Viking: Battle For Asgard), orchestrated and conducted by Nic Raine (Viking: Battle For Asgard) and performed by The Slovak National Symphony Orchestra at the Slovak Radio Concert Hall in Bratislava.

“Undertaking the challenge of the music production for Empire: Total War was no simple task,” said composer Richard Beddow. “The game needed music to convey its size and breadth, covering the various countries at war, delicately accompanying campaign gameplay and underpinning the various cinematics and events in the game.”

You can get a feel for the cinematic feel he is referring to in the following main theme: Read more

Empire: Total War – A Great Spectator Game

Empire: Total War has been out for a little over a month now, and it has garnered a lot of attention, both praise and scorn. For the most part, the negative comments have been about the fact that you need an account with Steam, and an online connection for the initial install. The praise has been for the gameplay itself, and what gameplay it is!

Even watching someone else play is a treat. A YouTube user, PrinceofMacedon, has compiled several commentary videos he’s done online with a variety of opponents. During the replay, he presents a running commentary that includes details about his and his opponents’ army, tactics that he’s delpoying, and even historical anecdotes thrown in as well.

I’ve got one of his videos below here for you to watch. It’s a Russia vs Britain battle, with PrinceofMacedon playing as the Russians. Read more

Empire: Total War Out Now on Steam

The Creative Assembly”s Empire: Total War is now out via Valve”s Steam digital distribution service for roughly $50 dollars. The game is the latest in the Total War series, started by TCA with Shogun: Total War, in June of 2000. In Empire: TW, every projectile is precisely plotted for maximum realism during combat. Not to mention it is the first Total War game in which naval combat is featured in real-time!

Suffice it to say, we are excited…Official Release:Empire: Total War from The Creative Assembly and SEGA is now available via Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC games with over 20 million accounts worldwide, as well as retail outlets around the world. Empire is the latest in the award-winning Total War strategy game series and the first to extensively utilize the Steamworks suite of Services for both development and marketing purposes.

For multiplayer support in both the electronic and retail versions of the game, Empire: Total War leverages Steamworks for Achievements, statistics, authentication, matchmaking, and support for the Steam Community. On the marketing side, Steamworks was used to fulfill a variety of promotional offers.

Empire: Total War Demo Hits Today

Sega has emailed to say that the Empire: Total War demo will hit Steam today at 4pm GMT.

The demo features two battles.

You’ll be able to play as the British Empire against the upstart colonials at the Battle of Brandywine Creek.

Then you can try your hand at the game’s new naval warfare when you command the French Navy at the Battle of Lagos.

The full game is released on March 3rd. I’m about as excited as excited gets.

Source: Boomtown.net

Empire: Total War Release Date – Uses Steam for DRM

Creative Assembly’s historical strategy game Empire: Total War will ship to retailers on March 3 and be available for purchase on March 4, publisher Sega confirmed today.

Empire Total War – Chapter 5 Video – Multiplayer

It looks like the final video in the Empire: Total War series has arrived and it has some information about the multiplayer aspect of the game.

With Steam involved as well, it should be a very cool thing for the multiplayer side of things. I can’t wait for the game to be released and each of these videos just makes it a little harder to wait for it each time.

Empire: Total War introduces a host of revolutionary new features, including true 3D naval combat. For the first time in the Total War series, you will be able to intuitively command single ships or vast fleets upon seascapes rich with extraordinary water and weather effects that play a huge role in your eventual glorious success or ignominious defeat. After pummelling your enemy with cannon fire, close in to grapple their ship and prepare to board, taking control of your men as they fight hand-to-hand on the decks of these wooden behemoths.

• Take command on the high seas. New real-time 3D naval warfare takes Total War’s unparalleled battle action to the high seas, with players commanding single ships or vast fleets.

• Become a founding father. Starting in 1700 – The era of warfare across oceans, revolution and the founding of the United States.

• Brand new multiplayer component includes player rankings, leagues and ladders, and completely new gameplay modes.

• All new graphics engine and technology features staggering real-time seascapes, new advanced landscape and flora systems, and dynamic weather.

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Spain Confirmed as Latest Playable Faction in ‘Empire: Total War’

The Spanish have a long been conquerors and colonisers in distant parts. Indeed, the Spanish and Portuguese signed a treaty in 1494 that neatly divided the world between themselves. The Spanish went conquering “for God, Spain and to get rich”. They succeeded, to a great degree, in all three aims.

Spain is a staunchly Catholic country, and the Church and the fearsome Spanish Inquisition still have their hold over men’s hearts. This partly explains why, for all its wealth, Spain is economically backward: the Church sees usury (money lending) as sinful. This may be so, but this lack of credit does not help the merchant classes. Economic growth is also not helped when it is beneath the dignity of any hidalgo gentleman to earn money or work. But a gentleman’s honour is worth defending and a nation’s glory is worth winning, so courage is not in short supply. Indeed, Spain is blessed with courageous men on both land and sea.

That Spain will need defending, and soon, is self-evident to many. Charles II, “El Hechizado” or “the Bewitched” is a feeble-minded and pathetic figure, a shadow of his Hapsburg ancestors, and childless. Spain has suffered from his weakness of mind and government, but Charles cannot live forever. When he dies, what forces will shape the destiny of the Empire? Will Spain once again face its Protestant rivals down? Will new there be a new generation of conquistadores to plant the Spanish flag on distant shores? His successor will have much to ponder, but a brave nation to lead back to greatness!

Source: Sega.com

New Empire: Total War Trailer – Road To Independence Campaign

Creative Assembly’s latest strategy epic Empire: Total War (PC) will include a new Revolutionary War-themed “Road to Independence” campaign, a feature detailed in the following trailer.

At one time set for an early February release, Empire has since been delayed to early March–though a new campaign multiplayer feature is in the works due to the delay.

ABOUT THE GAME
Dominate the 18th century on land and sea. Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe. Empire: Total War takes the Total War franchise to the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment — a time of political upheaval, military advancements, and radical thought, captured in stunning detail in Empire: Total War.

Empire: Total War introduces a host of revolutionary new features, including true 3D naval combat. For the first time in the Total War series, you will be able to intuitively command single ships or vast fleets upon seascapes rich with extraordinary water and weather effects that play a huge role in your eventual glorious success or ignominious defeat. After pummelling your enemy with cannon fire, close in to grapple their ship and prepare to board, taking control of your men as they fight hand-to-hand on the decks of these wooden behemoths. Read more