Napoleon: Total War
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| Developer(s) | The Creative Assembly |
| Publisher(s) | Sega, Typhoon Games |
| Distributor(s) | Sega (retail) Steam (online) |
| Designer(s) | Ian Roxburgh |
| Composer(s) | Richard Beddow |
| Series | Total War |
| Engine | Warscape |
| Version | 1.3.0 (21 June 2010) |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Turn-based strategy, Real-time tactics |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Media/distribution | DVD Download |
| System requirements Minimum: OS: Windows Vista/XP/7 Processor: 2.3 GHz CPU with SSE2 Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista/Windows 7) Graphics: 256 MB DirectX 9.0c shader model 2b compatible GPU DirectX: DirectX 9.0c Hard Drive: 21 GB free space Recommended: OS: Windows Vista/XP/7 Processor: 2.6 GHz Dual Core CPU Memory: 2 GB RAM (XP), 4 GB RAM (Vista/Windows 7) Graphics: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c shader model 3 compatible GPU DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c Hard Drive: 21 GB free space | |
Napoleon: Total War (abbreviated as NTW) is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by The Creative Assembly (CA) and published by Sega for the PC. Napoleon was released in North America on 23 February 2010, and in Europe on February 26. The game is the sixth stand-alone instalment in the Total War series. The game is set in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Players assume the role of Napoleon Bonaparte, or one of his major rivals, on a turn-based campaign map and engage in the subsequent battles in real-time. As with its predecessor, Empire: Total War, which included a special United States storyline, Napoleonfeatures two special campaigns that follow the general's early career.
Napoleon received generally favourable reviews from video game critics. Reviews praised the game's stunning visuals, story driven campaigns, and new gameplay features. Some reviewers were critical of the game's weak AI, high system requirements, and its limited scope - while others considered Napoleon overly similar to Empire, its immediate predecessor in the series.
French actor Stephane Cornicard provided voice-acting for Napoleon Bonaparte in the original English, German, French, and Spanish editions.
As with all other games in the Total War series, Napoleon consists of two gameplay types: a turn-based geopolitical campaign - which requires players to build structures in a faction's territories to produce units and create a source of income, research new technologies, deal with other in-game factions through diplomacy, trade and war, sending agents on missions, creating and commanding armies, and eventually become the world's dominant faction - and real-time tactical battles where players command huge armies to direct the course of any battles that take place.
Gameplay
Napoleon contains four campaigns, two of which follow Napoleon's early military career. The first career event is the Italian campaign of 1796, while the second is the French invasion of Egypt in 1798. Both feature smaller, optional missions that help drive the story forward. The major French campaign, however, is the so called "The Mastery of Europe," which resembles the holistic modes of previous Total War games. Conversely, the "Campaigns of the Coalition" allows players to govern Great Britain, Russia, Prussia or the Austrian Empire and attempt to defeat Napoleonic France in Europe. Each major campaign requires players to obtain a certain number of territories, although the latter also demands that the French are defeated. Many of Napoleon's major battles such as Austerlitz, Trafalgar, Battle of the Pyramids, and Waterloo are available as historical scenarios, separate from the campaign.
A new physics system had been implemented for the real-time battles, so that when cannon balls hit the ground, for instance, they leave impact craters. Gunpowder smoke lingers and reduces visibility in protracted engagements. Mike Simpson, CA's studio director, reported that there are a number of environmental factors that affect battlefield tactics: gunpowder backfires when it rains, and the elevation of landscape affects the range of munitions. Individuals within a unit now vary to a greater degree, and are no longer as generic as in previous titles in the series.The campaign map is narrower in focus, but more detailed than Empire's campaign map. Turns in Napoleon: Total War represent two weeks, while previous titles sported turns that were the equivalent of at least six months. Additionally the game's artificial intelligence system had been modified.There is also a new uniform system that includes approximately 355 non-editable uniforms.
In addition, Napoleon: Total War contains several new multiplayer features and a voice command utility to speak to other players via Steam. Unlike previous Total War titles, there is now the option for a "drop-in" multiplayer campaign mode: when playing a campaign against the computer, it is possible to allow another user to join via a lobby and take control.
Factions
Napoleon: Total War includes approximately thirty factions throughout the game, though only the following are playable in campaigns:
Austrian Empire - Campaigns of the Coalition and multiplayer (Europe and Italy)
First French Empire - Story mode and multiplayer (Europe, Egypt and Italy)
British Empire - Campaigns of the Coalition and multiplayer (Europe and Egypt)
Prussia - Campaigns of the Coalition and multiplayer (Europe only)
Russian Empire - Campaigns of the Coalition and multiplayer (Europe only)
Ottoman Empire - Multiplayer (Europe and Egypt)
Spain - Expansion Pack and Multiplayer (Europe and The Peninsula Campaign).
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Some non-playable factions in the campaign include:
Batavian Republic
- Bedouin
Brittany
Catalonia
Courland
- Crimean Khanate
Denmark–Norway
- Duchy of Oldenburg
- Hesse-Kassel
- Kingdom of Naples
Kingdom of Sardinia
- Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Mameluke
Portugal
Saxony
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Belgium
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
- Italy
- Lucca
Kingdom of Hanover
Kingdom of Saxony
- Kingdom of Westphalia
Napoleonic Italy
Norway
Papal States
Poland
Romania
Scotland
Sicily
Sweden
Swiss Confederation
- Tuscany
- Venice
United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Multiplayer
The game also included the following features:
- Multiplayer Campaign Mode
- Multiplayer drop-in battles, where you can face human opponents in your single player campaign battles
- Steam achievements, game play bonuses and voice communications.
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