Should I buy Empire Total war even though the demo fails to even open on my comp

OK so I waited forever for Empire Total War to come out. When the demo 1st came out I DL it immediatly. But the demo never evened opened. My rig far surpasses the reccomended requirement so that is not the issue. At first I got the message "Empire Total War is stopped working" now when i try to run the game it says "The game is currently unavabilbe. Please try again later"

So if you were me would you risk it? So far I haven't.

I also had trouble with the demo through Steam. My rig is well above also. The only problem is I have not purchased the game so I can't say it will work for you. I know many people who have gotten it through Steam and have no issues.

No save yourself the money, the game is trash. Even if you rig meets more than the recommended settings it still suffers heavily from bugs and slow down. The game for me is unplayable and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Go for There earlier titles, Rome or medieval 2.

No, to me a demo has two main purpose: 1) to see if it'll work on my rig and 2) if i'll like the game. Should the game fail in one of those, I wouldn't spend me money on it.flipin_jackass

The games is trash, don't buy it. It's a really disappointing effort by CA.

Edit: Grammar

Buy Medieval 2: Total War instead. That may sound counterproductive since the game is older but it is cheaper, has more content, looks better (not graphically but Empire has a thing where a lot of units are clones while this isn't a big problem in Medieval 2), is a more interesting time period and has a much larger modding community. The demo for that is also on steam by the way if you are worried about running it.

Edit:Medieval 2 is also not the buggy mess that Empire is since the AI actually works.

Since the all the patches, I have found the game much better. It does demand a good rig to run with all settings ultra though. When it was first released it was a shocker where diplomacy and trade, and sieges wouldn't work properly. All been fixed. If your rig has the requirements to run, it is a very good RTS game. It's like ARMA 2, the demo was buggy which deters people from it, yet with the latest patches a lot of bugs have been eradicated. As an above post says, they should update a demo if there were a lot of bug patches.

Buy Medieval 2: Total War instead. That may sound counterproductive since the game is older but it is cheaper, has more content, looks better (not graphically but Empire has a thing where a lot of units are clones while this isn't a big problem in Medieval 2), is a more interesting time period and has a much larger modding community. The demo for that is also on steam by the way if you are worried about running it.

Edit:Medieval 2 is also not the buggy mess that Empire is since the AI actually works.

Whiteblade999

I think that you should pass up on this game. it's very buggy, & they also dropped all future patches/support for it, the only patch is the last recent one v1.5. This was the last major patch that the developers did. Shatilov

Since the latest patch I have found to AI to be pretty good. Last battle I fought, the enemy only had 3x small platoons on the hill. they sent 2x forward, which I attacked. The general was up on the hill staying away, and then he sent his groups in retreat mode. I was silly in that I decided to send ALL my troops after them. Going up to the hill where the General was, I come to suddenly see an overwhelming number suddenly appear over the rise. The entire enemy army was hiding in an ambush awaiting my move. Thus I forced myself to retreat and lost many a man and horse. :(

Funny thing is, if I decided to just wait the enemy out to come and attack it prob would've lasted for hours. He was really just sitting and waiting for me to make a mistake. I can't see what people are saying about AI being bad.

[QUOTE="Shatilov"]I think that you should pass up on this game. it's very buggy, & they also dropped all future patches/support for it, the only patch is the last recent one v1.5. This was the last major patch that the developers did. stele29

It's a really good game, people seem to have lots of problems with it but I've never had much trouble with it on my very modest system. I bought the collectors edition on release for $120AUD (approx $108USD) and I do not regret my purchase at all.

If you exceed the minimum specs, then your comp will run it but you will be disappointed.

Lol "unplayable" you people need to calm down. The game is very playable, sure you run into the occasional glitch but it's by no means "unplayable". As the problem with most games, the people who have trouble playing it are a lot more vocal compared to those who don't.

Lol "unplayable" you people need to calm down. The game is very playable, sure you run into the occasional glitch but it's by no means "unplayable". As the problem with most games, the people who have trouble playing it are a lot more vocal compared to those who don't.

the_mitch28

DO NOT BUY Empire Total War !

I got the game on launch and its now collecting dust because its too buggy and broken to play, a testment to the newfound crapiness of Creative Assembly.

AI is terrible and the game runs really badly on my HD4870 ... and to think I have been playing their games since Rome : TW.

Don't waste your money on ETW .... it is pre-beta garbage.

My brother has the game, it looks cool but still the same thing as the older games I haven't seen any improvements. I wouldn't buy it if I were you because of the fact that some parts of your computer including the video card may not support the game. My comp is a 2.93 GHz i7 with 6 Gigs of RAM and two 300 GB 10,00 RPM SATA Drives and a GTX 295. I tried to play Far Cry 2 on my brand new comp and it keeps failing I don't even get into the game. I called support and did every update possible the problem? My video card was too new and didnt support the game.

If the demo didn't work on your computer I would not buy the game. I usually try and buy things through steam now and let their patching systems help and update my games but if the demo doesn't work there is no guarantee. Also Vista 64 bit wreaks havoc if you have it.