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User Rating: 9 | Napoleon: Total War PC
By Darthpathfinder | Review Date:
Napoleon: Total War Is the stand-alone expansion to Empire: Total war. Which is a turn-based strategy/real-time tactics game based around the era of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the main story mode so to speak you start out as Napoleon Bonaparte in his early career. This means that you will be playing as the french army but back then they where a true power to eqaul any who got in there way.

The campaigns in Napoleon: Total War are as follows: First there are Napoleon's early military career. One is the Italian campaign of 1796, while the second is the French invasion of Egypt in 1798. Each have there own main goals and each have side missions that iff done right can make the battles ahead much better for you These are also played out on much smaller but more focussed map with more smaller regions that are based around that area.

The next campaign is the main arc for the french side and is based around there goal for the Mastery of Europe. This resembles the holistic modes of previous Total War games. This is not the only campaign for Napoleon: Total War as you get to play as part of the Coalition. In this you either play as Great Britain, Russia, Prussia or the Austrian Empire and attempt to defeat Napoleonic France. What you do after that is up to you.

I have already talked about a few of the factions but i think it is only fair to list them all. These are the ones you can play as:

Austria - Campaigns of the Coalition and multiplayer (Europe and Italy)
France - Story mode and multiplayer (Europe, Egypt and Italy)
United Kingdom - Campaigns of the Coalition and multiplayer (Europe and Egypt)
Prussia - Campaigns of the Coalition and multiplayer (Europe only)
Russia - Campaigns of the Coalition and multiplayer (Europe only)
Ottoman Empire - Multiplayer (Egypt only)
Portugal - Expansion Pack and Multiplayer (The Peninsula Campaign only)
Spain - Expansion Pack and Multiplayer (The Peninsula Campaign only)

Then there are some of the NPC factions that come in the game:

Denmark-Norway
Sweden
United Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Bavaria

Napoleon: Total War came out on the 26 February 2010 for the PC. Its System requirements are:

Minimum:

OS: Windows Vista/XP/7 Processor: 2.3 GHz CPU with SSE2 Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista/Windows 7) Graphics: 256 MB DirectX 9.0c shader model 2b compatible GPU DirectX: DirectX 9.0c Hard Drive: 21 GB free space.

Recommended:

OS: Windows Vista/XP/7 Processor: 2.6 GHz Dual Core CPU Memory: 2 GB RAM (XP), 4 GB RAM (Vista/Windows 7) Graphics: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c shader model 3 compatible GPU DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c Hard Drive: 21 GB free space.

So if you have a need for crushing the will of men be it on land or on sea this may well be the game you are looking for.

Other Helpful Reviews for Napoleon: Total War

  • Rating:9

    What Empire: Total War should have been

    By wejj | Review Date: Feb 23, 2010 | PC

    Finally. After being terribly disappointed with an unforgivingly broken and unstable Empire: Total War, they got it right with Napoleon. Since the game has just come out, I can't comment on its long term stabilty. How... Read Full Review

    26 of 33 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7.5

    Add on? Definately. Full price? nah....

    By petec9999 | Review Date: Feb 26, 2010 | PC

    Im writing this after taking Napoleon for a ride over the last few days. Ive been able to check out most of the features and make my way through the Napoleon campaign that comes with the game. Ive noticed a lot of co... Read Full Review

    10 of 12 users found the following review helpful
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