Empire: Total War
About
The fifth part in the Total War series, Empire is set in the 18th century. The player controls over one of the powerful empires of the era, such as Great Britain, Spain or Russia. There are more than 50 factions in the game overall, although only the major civilizations are playable, while the rest are campaign-specific minor states and colonies. The factions are not static, as colonies can claim independence, and within empires, the government can change, even in the one controlled by the player.
Unlike its predecessors, Empire: Total War puts a stronger emphasis on the empire-building in the vein of Civilization series. The game combines turn-based global strategy with an RTS-style warfare. On the strategic map, you control your empire’s diplomacy, economy, religion, colonization, government, and other aspects. The battles, however, are fought as real-time wargames. The warfare is very realistic and includes a variety of units and battle movements based on military history. The units react like real people, shoot orders, and panic if they lose. Empire was also the first game in the series to introduce fully realized naval battles, which allow you to set enemy ships on fire or to board and capture them in real-time.
System requirements for PC
- Supported OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™
- Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® or greater or AMD® Athlon® equivalent CPU
- Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP,) 2 GB RAM (Vista™)
- Graphics: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory
- Display: Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels
- Sound: Directx9.0c compatible sound card
- Hard Drive: 15 GB free hard disk space formatted as NTFS
- Peripherals: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard
System requirements for Linux
- OS: Steam OS or Ubuntu 14.04.1 (64 bit required)
- Processor: 2GHz
- Memory: 4GB Memory
- Graphics: 512MB*
- Hard Drive:18GB HD space
- Other Requirements: Nvidia 600 series+, AMD 6000 series+, Intel Iris Pro.
- IMPORTANT: Requires 64bit OS to play.
- OS: Steam OS or Ubuntu 14.04.1 (64 bit required)
- Processor: 3 GHz
- Memory: 8GB Memory
- Graphics: 1GB*
- Hard Drive: 18GB HD space
- Other Requirements: Nvidia 700 series+, AMD R7 series+
- IMPORTANT: Requires 64bit OS to play.
System requirements for macOS
- OS: 10.11.6 (as of version 1.4)
- Processor:2.0 GHz
- Memory:4GB Memory
- Graphics:256MB*
- Hard Drive:20GB HD space
- Other Requirements: The following graphics cards are not supported: ATI X1xxx series, Intel GMA series and NVIDIA 7xxx series.
- Pre 10.11.6 Users: Players using a version of OS X before 10.11 can access a compatible version of the game via the Beta tab in the game’s properties window. Select the ‘Mac 1.3 - Use for legacy OS X’ branch for a version that is compatible with 10.9.3 up to 10.11.2.
- OS: 10.12.2 (as of version 1.4)
- Processor:2.4 GHz
- Memory:4GB Memory
- Graphics:512MB*
- Hard Drive:20GB HD space
- Other Requirements: The following graphics cards are not supported: ATI X1xxx series, Intel GMA series and NVIDIA 7xxx series.
- Pre 10.11.6 Users: Players using a version of OS X before 10.11 can access a compatible version of the game via the Beta tab in the game’s properties window. Select the ‘Mac 1.3 - Use for legacy OS X’ branch for a version that is compatible with 10.9.3 up to 10.11.2.
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