New land battle trailer

[Martok]

The English version is here.


The German language version can be viewed here.

[Marius Dynamite]

The graphics look awesome, but I'm only hoping the zoomed out visuals will look better than M2. I always felt RTW looked better zoomed out.

[Mailman653]

Looks fun. Hope a cannon ball to an elephant isn't too messy.

[Megas Methuselah]

WOW.... Btw, the zoomed out visuals ARE good in the trailer, and a cannonball to an elephant HAS to be messy. It just HAS to be!!!! Making a cannonball to an elephant look like a clean kill is like trying to make... nvm, it just has to be messy!!

[Veho Nex]

Beautiful

But I hope it isn't as much of a let down as Medieval 2 was...

[Divinus Arma]

Imagine if the TW series ever got, well, bloody. It would be spectacular! Exploding elephants? Severed horse limbs? Entrails and the screams of the-not-yet-dead?

It will never happen. But I can only imagine.

Trailer looks good. God I hate those green arrows.

[darrin42]

Anyone else think the campaign map looks crap??? :(

[Martok]

One thing though is that the cannons look like they are firing rockets with those white trails, is that realistic?

It's not, no. CA added the smoke trails so that players could better follow who was shooting whom. They're looking at adding the option to disable them if you wish (which I hope they do).

Anyone else think the campaign map looks crap??? :(

Looks fine to me. But then, I've never been terribly picky about the campaign map in the Total War series. As long it works and functions reasonably well, I'm content.

[Mithradates]

If that hand to hand fighting is as good as it looks it should be awesome, gameplay aside that is.

[Quintus.JC]

Anyone else think the campaign map looks crap??? :(

I wouldn't say crap, but it does look very different from the previous two games. Medieval II and Rome felt like two very similar game to me, Empire looks different and revolutionary. Hopfully it will surpress the two games.

Good trailer, but the commentry guy's voice was really boring, or at least in my opinion that is.

[Sheogorath]

Is it too much to dare to hope that we wont be subject to an AI which expects us to attack through a forest, up a hill, in the rain?
I don't know about you guys, but both the MTW2 and RTW AI seem to love throwing those at me. And I can't STAND forest battles. It annoys me to no end, being unable to see anything without zooming in to the point where all you can see is two guys poking each other with spears.

[Sol Invictus]

Fighting in the woods gives me a headache. I absolutely hate it.

[LadyAnn]

I wouldn't say crap, but it does look very different from the previous two games. Medieval II and Rome felt like two very similar game to me, Empire looks different and revolutionary.

Of course, M2:TW and R:TW look the same: they are built off the same game engine. There were some tweaks, but the underlaying flaws are same.

E:TW is the first game of a third generation engine. M:TW and S:TW are from the first engine.

Annie

[Gustav II Adolf]

Anyone else think the campaign map looks crap??? :(

The earlier screens of the campaign map looked poor to me but i must say after seeing the video I'm astonished how lively it feels. I love it!


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[darrin42]

The earlier screens of the campaign map looked poor to me but i must say after seeing the video I'm astonished how lively it feels. I love it!


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yeah It does look free alright. Its just, it looked very small thats all. It briefly showed Italy, France, and other western European regions all together....it looked as if France would only have one settlement by its size lol. But yeah, it does look free..free Euough that you could easily take all of europe over with one Army!

[Discoman]

I presume you can view the campaign map in 3D? I think the angle changed at one point.

The game looks great, I would just like to see a video of one full battle, that would be rather awesome to say the least.

[Gustav II Adolf]

yeah It does look free alright. Its just, it looked very small thats all. It briefly showed Italy, France, and other western European regions all together....it looked as if France would only have one settlement by its size lol. But yeah, it does look free..free Euough that you could easily take all of europe over with one Army!

Yeah, I see your point. I also want to have a big european map. It is shown in an angle and it can affect how big it feels. Still, the number of cities and regions worries me too. I would like to take pieces of a country and not just one battle and then win the lot. My guess though is that CA has made the game to work in a somewhat different manner than before. We now have naval battles and a bigger world. Maybe we are directed not to fight as much in core erupean countries.


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[muha]

My biggest question is...why I did I see a flag of Israel in the trailer?! (its right after the show britain on the world map)

I know the culture and religion existed for thousands of years....but the state of israel is only like 60 years old!


Other than that....cool trailer..too bad ill have to buy a new pc..

[Sheogorath]

My biggest question is...why I did I see a flag of Israel in the trailer?! (its right after the show britain on the world map)

I know the culture and religion existed for thousands of years....but the state of israel is only like 60 years old!


Other than that....cool trailer..too bad ill have to buy a new pc..

I believe that's a Portuguese historical flag. Since its in what looks like Goa.