This game is pretty awesome, if you're into any of the other Total War games, you won't be dissapointed with this one. I've played Empire: Total War for 95.1 hrs since I've gotten the game, that's how uber it is!

Don't bother, though, if you don't have a decent system. They've had a lot of problems with people buying the game and it not running on certain computers even on the lowest settings...then, of course, they can't return the game, heh.

I love the way it looks, I have to wait though for 3 months till I get a new system that can handle the sucker.

Hey I still play Medieval: Total War.. I've been wanting to try this one.. I'll give it a shot.

Yeah, I was having a problem with the game crashing intermittently. I couldn't find a fix. Well, the last time it crashed, I looked at my CPU temperature, it was at 44 degrees celsius...Aha!

I took off the heat sink on my cpu and the sparkling wiggle that put my computer together didn't put the heat sink on right. All that cool air was escaping. Readjusted that, been running at 27-29 degrees, no problems since.

I really want to try Empires, ive played all the other ones and so far my two favorites are Shogun and Rome: Total War... but this new one looks awesome, i played the demo and it rocked

I've played the demo on steam, its pretty sweat, the graphics are hard on the cpu, but easy on the eyes.

I'll put trying the Empire: Total War demo on my to do list, after getting a new DVD drive to replace the one that came with my system, which happened to die on me a few weeks ago.

If Rome and Medieval 2 are any indication, I agree, it should rock.