EMPIRE TOTAL WAR - CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL TRAILER!

[Thermal]

stop it at 43 seconds and you'll see some of the diplomacy, things like trade rights not needing to be both ways i.e looks like you can demand trade off a country, but don't need to give it yourself!
other options like technology diplomat bar was interesting too, perhaps it could include sharing countries developments and resources!

at 48 seconds, its hard to see as the tab goes quick but it looks like you can only go into a region if your at war with someone, it says 'you do not have rights to this region, choose an option, declare war or cancel move' so this shows that the computer can only go on your land in war! a get the hell outta my land option at last!

stop att 1:22 and you'll see the amount of population has rose massively, madrid has 6 million, so realistic, or perhaps far-fetched population figures are in place at least! also here, public order for different classes is evident! green background for happy class, and orange/red for unhappy by the looks of it, a lot of income too, hopefully they'll be plenty of money in the game!

1:34 nice new building panel, tells u the level off the building too, quite sassy the type and the graphics makes it easy to access and looks nice too, i wonder what the infrastructure element will bring too.... at 1:36 we see the panel for a farm too, alot of new benefits have been put in place it seems aswell as a farm trait saying 'produces sheep' wow so perhaps things like even sheep can be resource for trade! after that it goes to a war factory with research elements! how cool...

from 2:37 onwards some nice pics of the continents! this looks awesome, i hope the release date is brought forward, though i doubt it, and to think they may still be working on it, this could be one hell of a good game!

[GFX707]

stop att 1:22 and you'll see the amount of population has rose massively, madrid has 6 million

Are you sure that's not for the entire region/country? The population of Madrid now is half that.

[Thermal]

Are you sure that's not for the entire region/country? The population of Madrid now is half that.

not sure, but its better than the maximum of about 30000 in med 2

[Sol Invictus]

I think the populaion number is for the entire Region not just the Capital City of the Region.

[Alerion]

any ideas how many people lived in SPain at that time?

[rajpoot]

Everything looks good, very very good. I just can't wait to try out the demo.......

One point though, why does every menu look plainer that it's M2TW counterpart? I mean they seem to somehow lack colour.....or is it just me?

[CBR]

any ideas how many people lived in SPain at that time?

Year : pop in millions
1700 : 6
1750 : 9
1800 : 11

From: The rise and fall of the great powers by Paul Kennedy


CBR

[Sir Beane]

Okay. Here are some interesting bits of info I got from the movie (more or less in order of appearence)

• At 0.39 you can see an option to ‘Exempt region from tax’.
  
• The diplomacy screen at 0.44 shows protectorates are in the game.
  
• At 00.53 you can see a News Icon on the left of the screen.
  
• Most of North America looks like uncolonised territory (its colour on the mini map is a standard grey) this suggests it can be colonised.
  
• There is also a town in Canada apparently named Moose Factory.
  
• At 1.18 We can see the flag of the Papacy, as well as Venice and a flag I am assuming belongs to Florence (off centre red cross on white background)
  
• At 1.21 the tooltip (top left of screen) reads:
  
  Militias
  
  An ungarrisoned city automatically generates Militia to keep order. Although not effective during an insurrection as billeted light infantry, such as dragoons. Militia are well able to manage day to day public order problems. They cannot leave the city in which they were spawned.
  
  
• At 1.28 Expenditure seems to come in three categories. Army Upkeep and Navy Upkeep are self explanatory, but the third one is Town Watch. You can also see ‘State Religion.’
  
• 1.28 Also lists Britain’s victory conditions as ‘Hold the highest Prestige rating at the end of year 1799.
  
• 1.32 Shows Austria is a playable faction. We also see a Green and White flag (top and bottom) with some kind of yellow central decoration.
  
• 1.37 The construction scroll lists where a building will be built (in the capital, in the countryside or in a town)
  
• 1.37 The building Peasant Farms gives the following bonuses:
  
  *Reduces chance of food shortages
  *+ 100 to region wealth.
  *Produces sheep.
  *0.5% to population growth.
  
  
• 1.43 We can see three flags. Poland Lithuania, Prussia, and a third in the top right behind the Eurogamer text.
  
• 1.47 Battle map looks damn good. Also there is a unit with 160 men in it. Cavalry units have 40 men. General has 60.
  
• 1.55 That wall looks really bad compared to the detailed textures in Medieval 2.
  
• 2.02 You can see a variety of different forts can be built (looks like stockade and wooden fort. The wooden fort is listed with a number 2 and costs 1500. Looks like an upgrade tree for forts).
  
• 2.12. The rake has a 'Command on Land' ranking of two stars.
  

I hope all that was useful for people, because it took several watches of the video for me to notice it all. Enjoy.

[Thermal]

nice analysis, much better than mine....

[Megas Methuselah]

OMG OMG OMG!!!!

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

[*]There is also a town in Canada apparently named Moose Factory.

Which is historically accurate, in case anyone was wondering.