Why I buy this one ?
- Completely separate from Empire: Total War, Napoleon immerses players in a concentrated, gripping wartime experience with exciting battles, memorable characters and Total War?s award winning signature mix
- Players can alter the course of history in objective-based missions across Europe. How they manage their troops across both land and sea can change the outcome of the war
- For the first time, two players battle head-to-head online utilizing three new main campaign maps. A new avatar system, achievements, gameplay bonuses, uniform customization and voice communications enhance the multiplayer experience
- 15 exclusive in-game units with Napoleon Total War-The ?Elite Regiment? is a collection of five of the most Elite Forces of the Napoleonic Wars, from all the major European factions.
- The ?Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars? is a 10 unit pack that gathers the most superb infantry and cavalrymen who fought during the great Napoleonic battles. Includes line infantry and calvary units from Prussia, Austria, France, Russia and Great Britain

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What our customer's say!

"Great game", A must have for Total War fans. Been playing them since Rome: TW and this one is my favorite yet. Different feel from Empire, so it might take a little getting used to, but overall it is a more polished game.

"Napoleon vs. Empire", In my personal opinion this is more of an expansion pack for Empire TW than anything else. I only payed 25$ for it and I would definatly think it is worth that. Overall though the game is nothing more than a slightly upgraded and debuged version of Empire TW.

"Steam sucks", Two words: Steam Sucks. I don't know how much simpler I can put it. After having to go through the install process four times, I was excited to play the game. But wait, you can't play until Steam patches the software... so twelve hours later I get to play the game. Unfortunately, any enjoyment I might have gotten from this game is totally sucked dry by the awfulness that is the Steam experience. Whether it's staring at the "Preparing to launch" screen for a half hour or repeated messages that "The Steam Server is unavailable" just firing up the game is a hit or miss proposition. In a moment of weakness, I decided to try and order a game via Steam while I was waiting (I assume part of the whole Steam idea is to sell you more stuff, right?). Went through the whole order and then got "Sorry, there's been an error with your order. Contact customer service." Yeah, thanks but no thanks. Not gonna call for the privilege of buying your stupid software. That's right; buying. I paid good money for this damn bundle of code, I'd like to be able to RUN IT WHEN I WANT TO PLAY! Thanks a lot Steam and thanks to whatever moron decided to ruin a perfectly good game series by tying it to that train wreck of a system.

"probably the best since SHOGUN", This is not an expansion pack for EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR. This is a stand-alone game. Lower price, but the exact same game engine.

As far as I know, I've played every installment in the TOTAL WAR series (including the expansions), since the very first one: SHOGUN. In my judgment this is probably the best so far. (Really, I think the most solid, the most atmospheric was the original SHOGUN, but I mean the versions before the patch that added the "battlefield ninjas" and other inanities.)

Although the format is rich in possibility, it seems like they always manage to include something that ruins the long-term playability of every outing:

SHOGUN: the "battlefield ninjas" were preposterous.
ROME and ALEXANDER: You give your cities everything money can buy, but they eventually revolt because of overcrowding and disease, forcing you to periodically slaughter the inhabitants to get some peace and quiet. Plus the constant bandits that you had to micro-manage became a headache.
MEDIEVAL: "A heir who has escaped detection" has arisen to slosh up your rear (together with constantly being excommunicated) made this one hard to enjoy for long. Also: mass revolts in all your provinces (typically about 1160) for no discernible reason.
VIKING: Okay, this one shouldn't be here. That was a fine game with no real problems I can think of.
EMPIRE: Released before it was ready: too many crashes to desktop. Plus, having to deal with Steam.

I guess what I'm saying is that NAPOLEON is excellent not so much because it's original or well-programmed; it just lacks the infuriating things that have been in other installments of the series. Some other things that -- God be praised -- ain't here:

* Trade is not a crock. Other installments had it where you could set up trade routes that were actually costing you money. In this one, trade is an unequivocal good and that's a relief. (I would still like to note that it's absurd that you can't trade with yourself, like the states of the U.S. do: once you approach map coverage, your trade does become a crock, since you get no money unless you're trading with a foreign power.)
* Generals don't die, at least not before the campaign deadline. At least I've never seen this. This was a bit of unwelcome realism in ROME. It got to the point where you felt like it wasn't worth the effort to "train" a general on easy battles, the way you could in SHOGUN.
* Bandits don't regularly appear.
* Storms and other natural disasters (e.g., big black clouds hovering mysteriously right over your fleet) are gone.
* This has never crashed to desktop on my setup.
* Religion nowhere near as important: it's been heavily toned-down, almost eliminated.
* You don't have to periodically decimate your cities.
* The "heir who escaped detection" b.s. is gone.
* Retraining (called "replenishment") is automatic. A welcome advance!
* The diplomatic penalty for territorial expansion is still there, but it's not so crippling.

All is not blooming roses, however. The AI is as retarded as it's always been. I'm talking about other states declaring war on you (or refusing an alliance) in the face of all historical logic or (more irritatingly) the logic of that moment in the game. I thought the AI, at least as far as the part that makes broad strategic decisions such as whether to enter or withdraw from war, was really poorly written. I mean, there could be a province you have surrounded for HUNDREDS of turns as an ally without touching -- and furthermore you've lent them aid repeatedly in the past, and you've completely got them surrounded by a million guys, and yet they'll attack you for no reason. Or refuse protectorate status. Or peace treaties, or whatever. I'm the kind of nerd who really gets into these games: getting a piece of paper and a pencil and mapping out my grand strategy, taking notes, etc. And yet it seemed like the AI was simply rolling the dice whenever called upon to make a decision.

Something else that saddened me was that the history blurbs were missing. I loved those in MEDIEVAL and EMPIRE. Shame those were 86'ed.

All in all, I have to say, the pre-patch SHOGUN is still my favorite. I still play through a couple of campaigns every few months. But NAPOLEON has now become my second favorite.

"Steam Incompatibility with 56K dialup modem.", I could never get this game to launch either online or offline with my 56K modem so I cannot comment on the game's performance other than to warn potential buyers not to buy without broadband or DSL. I had no problems with Rome Total War, but this game requires access through Steam and it never worked for me. I did successully install the game through Steam.

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"Small Battles damper game, but don't take too much away", The game is absolutely great, my only complaint being that the battles aren't on a larger scale. Other than that the additions to this game are wonderful, and the campaigns are fun to play. This is only my second total war game, my first being Rome: Total War which means that my opinion may not be the greatest, but personally I like the game. Even though the battles are small, they are still really fun to watch and to fight in.

"ETW Rehash, SEGA Sucks", First off, I swore I wouldn't buy this game because ETW was way too buggy of a game to be released. When I saw it priced at $26 however, I couldn't resist.

Gameplay:
Much much better than ETW. Still glitchy at times but they fixed it. (As they should have in ETW)
Graphics are better though the optimization is still not good enough.
Overall feel just makes the game feel better. Feels more immersive than ETW which felt like you were struggling against the software while struggling against your opponent.


One important note.
They say you get a uniform editor.
Nope, no uniform editor.
They said it'd be released within a month
Nope, it's been a month and no editor.

Bottom line:
Don't buy any games published by SEGA or made by CA unless you get a hefty discount. You want to play it, not support greedy developers.

"Napoleon Total War", Well Done, the graphics are great. The battles take some thinking to overcome. A good and challenging game overall.

"Steamed! - make sure you can get steam to work before you buy", I grew up doing Napoleonic wargaming and so I really, really looked forward to playing this game.

Unfortunately I could not get Steam to work on my computer. The best their FAQ/Help could offer was to uninstall my internet security software. Much as I like gaming I would prefer to be able to buy software that can work with commonly used security programs. The other instructions for dealing with the crash were equally unhelpful.

Sorry if it's unfair to give this one star without having been able to play the game - I'm sure it's fun if you can get it to work. But this one star is for the overall system which prevents you from buying software and running it independently on your computer.

I hope they don't lose too many sales before they change the system.

"Same old but still fun", I am a big fan of total war series and Napoleon total war is a great follow up to empire total war. I will say this if you are looking for a brand new game different from empire you will not find it here. This is mostly the same game except now combat units will be dressed in 19th century uniforms. The rate each unit reload will be faster, and naval combat is better compare to the original game.