Empire: Total War

This game is terrible. It fails to explain how to play it. You will quickly be squinting at tiny text and tiny icons that are not explained, trying to understand what youre supposed to be doing. The "helpful" hints encourage you to take certain actions without ever explaining how to do them. You will quickly spend a lot of time looking through many pages of lists and boxes of info with little or no guidance.

The realtime battles are impossible at sea and only so-so on land. The units are very difficult to control and rarely do what you want them to. The cannon on the field do not seem to move at all. You spend your time trying to herd your stupid ants into proper formations and lines.

On the turn based map you will spend most of your time watching the various computer controlled factions move back and forth with no particular purpose. There are many factions (way too many) and you are only one. So when you end your turn go and make a sandwich or do your laundry because the computer will go through the rest one by one with no apparent purpose.

Im deaply disappointed because Ive heard good things about the Total War franchise, but this game is awful.

MarcoCF about Total War: EMPIRE, v1.1