The "Why Napoleon?" Blog, by Mike Simpson

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Sounds like another of these stunts to get people over to a most likely unsuccessful product.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Sounds like another of these stunts to get people over to a most likely unsuccessful product.

Maybe not so much that as just unnecessarily defensive. People have different preferences for a time period - it seems like a logical extension from Empire, and even those who don't like the time frame should be able to see that. Furthermore, it's a little late to sell us on the period, isn't it? I'd much prefer something like "the strategic AI is better and here's how", or "we've made infantry staying in a cohesive line a bigger priority for the battle AI".

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Maybe not so much that as just unnecessarily defensive. People have different preferences for a time period - it seems like a logical extension from Empire, and even those who don't like the time frame should be able to see that. Furthermore, it's a little late to sell us on the period, isn't it? I'd much prefer something like "the strategic AI is better and here's how", or "we've made infantry staying in a cohesive line a bigger priority for the battle AI".

I actually like the period. I would pay gold to get a game which encompasses European warfare from the Spanish Succession all the way to the Revolution, but ETW is just too much of a let down. It's crappy, buggy, unrealistic - name whatever unflattering thing you can get on your head.

Back in the early days of 2009 there was a whole gigantic amount of hype here and in TWC about the release, the game, the demo, and so on. All of that is lost and nobody is lifting a finger save for a few who could somehow stomach ETW and like it.

[Fisherking]

To be fair, the game is not bad at all. Sure it took them six months to get most of it ironed out and there are still a few bugs but it is not a bad game.

It may even be a good game after the upgrades that NTW adds to ETW but that remains to be seen, doesn’t it?

[Owen Glyndwr]

Look at the bright side: At least we won't get random AI DoWs, right?

[Durallan]

I'm not going to put any assumptions or expectations of napoleon total war, and see what happens. I did that for dragon age and thats one of hte best games I've played so, see how napoleon total war is, it just better not crash is all XD

[antisocialmunky]

I wouldn't be surprised if it is a much better TW than ETW. The TW expansions are usually just more polished versions of the original with a bunch of little extra doodads.