Empire Total War Release Date Revealed!

[Sir Beane]

The ETW release date has been confirmed by CA. Go here (http://www.sega.co.uk/empire/gameinfo/news.php?n=2936) for more info. It's March the 3rd!

The minimum system requirements have also been updated.

The minimum system specifications for Empire: Total War are:
Operating System: Windows XP 32(service pack 2), Windows Vista 32 OS.
Processor: 2.4 GHz Single Core Intel or AMD equivalent processor.
System Memory: 1GB RAM (XP) 2GB RAM (Vista).
Graphics Card: 256MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (shader 2.0 or higher).
Sound Card: Directx9.0c compatible sound card.
Windows compatible mouse & keyboard.
15 GB free uncompressed hard drive space.

[Monk]

Bring on March! :2thumbsup:

[Haxorsist]

Only a little more than a month left. God, I'm excited.

And 15 GB minimum? Yowza!

[Sir Beane]

Only a little more than a month left. God, I'm excited.

And 15 GB minimum? Yowza!

I thought that. I've never seen such a huge game. :laugh4:

[Monk]

I thought that. I've never seen such a huge game. :laugh4:

It's about how large M2+kingdoms is on my HD (15.3g).

If ETW is as big as M2 plus its expansions we can only hope that means it boasts an absolute wealth of content. :yes:

[Ituralde]

So who is going for the digital distribution to be the first one to play it?

I know, I will wait for my game to be shipped to me. I just need a manual and a map and all those other nice things that come with a retail version! :2thumbsup:

[Mailman653]

At 15gb, sounds like it would take me at least three hours to d/l from Steam.

[Ituralde]

Well preload will be availabe 48 hours prior to the release date. That should be more than enough time even for 15 GB.

[Northnovas]

So who is going for the digital distribution to be the first one to play it?

I know, I will wait for my game to be shipped to me. I just need a manual and a map and all those other nice things that come with a retail version! :2thumbsup:

I am old fashion that way too! I want to see something for the money. I just don't know to pre-order and have it shipped or wait till it is in the stores. I know I won't be the first to play it will have to be one of the other fortunate members in the Org.

[Megas Methuselah]

YEEEES!!!! I WANT IT!!!! ZOMGZ!!!! YEEEAAAH!!!! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYSpIz2FjU&feature=related)

[Sol Invictus]

*Does Happy Dance*:dancing: I was fairly confident that the game would be released in early March, but it is always nice to have solid confirmation. I also require a manual to hold in my little paws.:book:

[ConnMon]

I'm glad to finally have a real release date. It's even better that it's in early March, and not like March 30th. I don't think we'll get a demo, but I can hope.

[Sir Beane]

Gentlemen, do not give up hoe for a demo! We shall endure, and the promised demo shall come!

(If you give up Polemists might finally snap and do something horrible)

I'm now going to pre-order Special Forces to get the fancy map that comes with it. My campaigns shall be planned out on paper, as nature intended!

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

They may be releasing the demo after the actual game. A few games have done that recently, I think.

/sorry Polemists.

[woad&fangs]

Gah! I'm probably going to have to wait for my graduation present (a shiny new Mac complete with Bootcamp) before I can play the game. Rest assured though, I will be wiling away my summer playing this game:medievalcheers:

[knoddy]

gah now i just have to find time to go preorder my collectors edition. i want my hip flask and compass! and hehe at planning campaigns on paper, id love to do that but i wont get the map till the game comes out and ill be too busy playing it hehe. i just wish my graphics card didnt over heat playing tetris :S could prove troublesome sigh heh

Cheers knoddy

[Polemists]

Firstly, cheers for the game having a solid release date as I know many of you were scared it would slip to late march.

Secondly, luckily for me , so far CA has always released a demo before release of product, all way back to shogun.


Third, we should have something to commemorate this great news......like

a


DEMO

[peacemaker]

sweet, sounds great. This also hopefully means a demo is around the corner yay. The system requirements talk about windows, does it work for mac(cuz if it doesnt i need to brag to my friends since we have a windows vs. mac battle)

[pevergreen]

It will be a Windows game, but a mac user CAN just use bootcamp and VM windows.

[Martok]

Nice find, Sir Beane. Way to be fast on the draw! :beam:

I must admit, I'm pleasantly surprised. When it was announced that the game was being delayed til March, I anticipated that it probably wouldn't come out until closer to April. This is indeed good news. :2thumbsup:

[Sir Beane]

Nice find, Sir Beane. Way to be fast on the draw! :beam:

I must admit, I'm pleasantly surprised. When it was announced that the game was being delayed til March, I anticipated that it probably wouldn't come out until closer to April. This is indeed good news. :2thumbsup:

I was lucky with this one. I was bored, so I decided to browse the Official site. There's nothing new in the News section but I decided to refresh the page on a whim. And then it appeared, so I rushed here to post it. :laugh4:

[Polemists]

That is odd as CA is actually rather slow to update there site.

On plus side, it means we are that much closer to

a

demo

[||GoTW||-Beatch-||Sen||]

sick amn been waiting for this forever

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

I hope my 256MB Video Card ( Radeon 1300 or 1350, one of the two), can work it, you guys think so? :surrender:

[tibilicus]

I hope my 256MB Video Card ( Radeon 1300 or 1350, one of the two), can work it, you guys think so? :surrender:


I'll be honest your really going to struggle and if you can you'll have to have everything on really low specs but it does reach the minimum requirements so there's a good chance it might.

[quadalpha]

The minimum system specifications for Empire: Total War are:
Operating System: Windows XP 32(service pack 2), Windows Vista 32 OS.


Surprised it doesn't support 64 bit Vista.

[Monk]

Surprised it doesn't support 64 bit Vista.

Those are minimum specs, not a list of all supported OSs. You need a minimum of Xp or Vista 32 to run Empire, but I'm sure the 64 bit editions of either will work much better.