This is a win win for any total war fan, so definitely pick up this copy and enjoy for yrs to come.
Plenty of good things to say about vanilla Napoleon Total War, but I can not leave out the modders who have done an outstanding job of providing endless replay ability with new mods still coming out today.
It cut out the micro management of having to select all units in a stack and click the replenishment plus button or actually moving them back to a city to retrain them like in older titles. A lot of new units with the new feature where units automatically gain back their losses through replacements when in friendly territory was a definite plus. It cut out the micro management of having to select all units in a stack and click the replenishment plus button This game was pretty good on launch and definitely a lot better than Empire Total War was. This game was pretty good on launch and definitely a lot better than Empire Total War was. I regret its a-historicality, but I still think it is the best of the series. I think that "Napoleon T.W." is the best mix of reasonably engaging strategy and good, long, battles up to now. I love the game, I love the graphics, the battles are the best yet and I like the slight de-emphasis on economics and diplomacy. Again, it had teething troubles and I had some fiddling to do to get it to play reliably and stable. "Napoleon T.W." is, for me, the very best yet. I like "Empire T.W." very very much, despite some really poor teething troubles. I love the game, I love the graphics, the battles are the I have had all the Total War games since the first "Shogun T.W." and I have loved every single one. I have had all the Total War games since the first "Shogun T.W." and I have loved every single one. I'm going to start looking elsewhere for strategy games in general, and stop buying Total War games because they say total war. I read forums which said the game is better then empire, but now I'm disillusioned with the whole franchise.
The result is a limited game, with a limited campaign with no room for improvement. It feels like the developers are trying to LIMIT modding instead of encourage it, because they think that will promote more sales from it's base, instead of players replaying Rome or Europe mods. I read forums The strength of total war games has always been the mods to fill in the flush out the game. The strength of total war games has always been the mods to fill in the flush out the game. If it weren't for the battle loading problem I would give this game a 9. That adds so much to the game for me and the reason I rate the game higher than I would with my loading problem.
It's great and much more realistic than previous total war games. The other thing I like is the time frame for each turn, two weeks.
Other than that the gameplay is great and smooth at full graphics. It will also freeze up every now when going to a real time battle. It's definitely not a slow or under powered computer. My computer is a brand new Alienware aurora with upgraded graphics. It can take 5-10 minutes to load up a battle on my computer. there is a glitch where the game runs intermittent while loading the battle. My disappointment comes when I go from the strategy turn based part of the game to the real time battles. I think the AI is a little better and a little more agressive which make the real time battles more fun to play. It can take 5-10 minutes to load I love the graphics, the batlles and overall play of the game. I love the graphics, the batlles and overall play of the game.