Has anything really changed from CA?

[paramedicguyer]

I played the demo today, I had bought the game on amazon today too...b4 i got the demo...crap. I can;t believe that EB (running on a 2004 game engine, and basically designed by a non profit group) is superior to ETW. WHat the hell is CA doing. the EB team has made CA look so bad, CA should either really get their shit straight or just call it quits. They are getting paid for designing this game and they still manage to drop the ball. I hate M2TW its just a remaping and reskinning really of RTW, they didnt even write a new script they only modified RTW (they were so lazy they just disabled the Marian reforms), CA also made it far too difficult to mad M2TW initially, I bet it had something to do with how many of the mods for RTW turned out to be superior to the vanilla game. I am sick of all these game reviews giving CA great reviews. These games starting with RTW (which I only like for EB) seem to be catered to idiot short attention spanned gamers who really don't have a terrible interest in deep emmersive strategy, and are more interested in action (I mean no offense to anyone). I honestly am more interested in the straregy map and diplomacy, battles are last on my list. When it comes down to it ETW in my opinion is the retarded silver spooned cousin to europa universalis III.



Peace

[paramedicguyer]

I have to post again, I am so pissed. I played just the demo, and I can tell this game is terrible. I loved the naval battle but the land battle sucked, it seems that a great deal of micro management is necessary, tho I have been playin RTW for so long I am not used to this type of warfare. I really am dissapointed with CA, They only reason they are the best at what they do, is because they are the only ones that do wat they do. They have the market cornered really, so they don't care how crappy their games are. Did anyone notice the great amount of emhpasis was placed on special units, whether it be the special forces edition, or that stupid elit addon. but no diplomacy addons no strategy map addons, no gameplay addons. No just units. I can go an entire campaign autoresoloving crap and not even see units (although I have to admit the ships look great). ANother thing the skins on the units look bad. EB skins are superior to ETW skins and I play both on max.

Some studio just needs to comeout wth their own rival. So finally CA will be forced to make a good game.



NO peace

[Quickening]

As disappointed as I am with Empire I have to say that the land battle in the demo is a terrible example of the land battles in the full game. I to thought it was atrocious and it put me off the game but it isn't reflective of the average battle.

[Slyspy]

It was clear when RTW came out that the AI couldn't play it's own game. It just couldn't cope with some of the extra features, especially the open map. To make matters worse some issues were carried over from STW! Things haven't really improved. The game has become ever more complex, which makes it excellent for the player, but the barely improved AI just can't handle it.