Imperial Glory

If youre having crashes, make sure to manually install DirectX 9. We tend to foget that games have software requirements or are too used to them being installed automatically with the game. Having installed it I didnt have a single crash afterwards. Now unto the game. The game came out between Rome and Medieval 2 Total War and is also a mix of turn based strategic map and real time tactical combat. On a conceptual level, there are things that I like and wish were used in TW. The more varied resource mechanics, the officer system for moving armies, trade routes, some diplomatic possibilities. However, the game is marred with issues that make it an inferior product to the TW games. The restrictive province development system, weird AI behaviour, strange balancing both in combat and on the campaign map (gun fire is much less efficient than melee), clunky and underdeveloped battle controls, no battle speed options (although there is a pause), slow gameplay start requiring quite a bit of development and preparation, smaller in scope than the TW games, there is no morale system during battles which makes it more arcady. They did have naval warfare before the TW series and it looks interesting, although I didnt get a chance to try it. Trying it out now I kind of understand why it was overshadowed. Despite some interesting ideas it underperforms in most categories compared to its direct competitor at that point. I guess they wanted to try a different era than the TW games of the time to make it more appealing and it makes sense. But now, if you want a game of this era, Empire and Napoleon TW are significantly superior and have much greater mod support. I wished they would have been able to make more games like this and try and refine them. There is potential, for sure. But its a tough market. Even their direct competitor in this regard, Creative Assembly, had issues making financial gains and eventually decided to sell to SEGA.

I'm a pretty casual gamer, but still managed to completely overtake the CPU on my second attempt at a campaign. Anyway, too much of the gameplay is just waiting for things to happen. The battles were just lo-fi Total War, lacking many of the features which make TW fun. The strategy map is pretty cool, and the atmosphere is nice, and that's about it.

This game is good, worth playing if you like the genre - it's faster paced that E:TW & Napoleon. I would say you want to get the mods such as Battle Mod, as well as one that adds artillery officers & men. Smoke mod makes it look a bit cooler too. Definitely worth a look, addictive as hell, even coming home drunk I have loaded this up to have an ill-fated blast!

I simply love this game, played it since it first came out. It feels like Total War but on a different era and on different graphics. Get 3 stars from me cause i simply just love it. The two missing stars is for the GoG version that do crashes a lot on Windows 10. For those who missed it and want to play that game once again while having windows 10 i would not recommend it. Takes away all the fun really.

I loved this game back when it came out. I was glad to see it here. The only issue I have is with the crashes that come after battles. It closes to GOG Galaxy syncing. The battles are a large part of the fun, and when it crashes after every battle you control it becomes unplayable.