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Napoleon: Total War (PC DVD) | 
| From: Sega
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 280
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: historical-strategy-games
ESRB: Rating Pending
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP/Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: NAPOLEONPC
EAN: 5055277004515
ASIN: B002M78NM6
Release Date: February 26, 2010
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 46
 Non non non! Zoot alors! September 4, 2010
Filthy Raider (Dorset, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really wanted to like this. Others in the series have been briliant, but since the move to Steam, Total War has nosedived just when they are starting to tackle even more interesting points in history.
First, Steam. The online 'technology' for games. Read into that the fact that when you first put the disc in you could be waiting anything around an hour for any chance of gameplay. Why when you have the discs - the genuine game - do you have to mess about so badly?
It checks your game as genuine, it then allows you to install the game and then immediately starts downloading updates (whether you want them or not), and anyone who has installed Total War updates will know they are serious on the Gigagbytes and timescale. Broadband speed seems to have little effect on speed so I can only guess the Steam servers are run on............steam.
So an hour in, you finally get to start and a terrific depiction of Napoleon (shoulder up) who appears to talk to you through the mist of battle.
But after all that the game itself is a slow moving let down. You will really need a high end machine to get anything out of this. On others you will be constantly dropping something to get a playable game. Even then the whole thing seems to be missing the point or what the other games brough to the arena.
I felt this series peaked at Medieval Total War 2 and since then has been pushing to machine boundaries that most gamers will never reach.
The fun next starts when you try to play again the next day. My PC simply fixed on the front screen for over 20 minutes before it started and it runs Call of Duty silky smooth. No idea why but the wireless light was running like a blinker so I guess we were 'talking' to Steam again!
Battles look fun, but you never get the experience anything other than a limited scope of what there is and with long loading delays it really starts to feel like a lot of fuss to achieve little more than you already have.
Please Sega go back to basics. Throw out Steam, it's a steaming pile of stuff we do not want. Total War - please get it right NEXT time.
 Steam..... August 22, 2010
Mr. Clayton E. Ayers (London)
Sega have committed a big NO NO in their tie in with Steam. There website is slow, maybe because it is steam powered. 75 pct of the time no connection is available. The game itself is superb but only if played locally. If you make the mistake of removing the disk from your pc you'll have to go throught the whole performance of re-registering with the pilling
cxxx that is steam.
In conclusion don't waste your money..
Steam - oh no! August 22, 2010
Mr. S. Cook (UK)
Having bought ALL total was games up to now from the Shigu era, I'm deeply disappointed with Steam. As of now I can't play the game because the servers are down. You MUST have an internet connection and the servers need to be up to let you play the game. What utter rubbish. If future games from the series are released on Steam, then this is one luyal customer who will be buying the total war series no more.
 napoleon total war reveiw August 1, 2010
Napoleon total war is the ultimate strategy war game I have played. You can have full control over your troops like what you want them to fire at, what formation, if you want them to withdraw from the battle or if you want them to melee attack the enemy, which happens alot in this game. You can also go on sea which is even harder than land battles. You can play as the french on campiagns but you can also play as the coalition on campaigns of the coalition when you can play as britian, prussia, russia, or austria.
The only bad part is when you have finished the campaigns and you don't know what to do and you get a bit bored but then you have other things like playing online with steam or play real napoleon battles like the battle of waterloo and the battle of trafalger or you can just play battle where you can choose the battle feild and what side you are playing as and what side the pc is.
Overall this game is worth the buy.
No in-game sound July 23, 2010
richard hill (U.K)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
bought the game , loaded it up and found i had no sound, the game also disabled all sound on my pc
the sega support forums and phone are a joke
google "sound problems" first and save yourself some money
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