Napoleon Total War

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 27 expert reviews

Excellent:

18
Good:

7
Average:

1
Bad:

1

Pros:

Dropin multiplayer for campaign battles.
Elegant and historically detailed campaign.
The death of a general will affect you personally.

Cons:

No relation between the individual campaigns.
Bad AI.

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Last revision on December 23, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Dropin multiplayer for campaign battles
Elegant and historically detailed campaign
The death of a general will affect you personally
Captures Napoleon and his era

Reviewers Didn't Like

No relation between the individual campaigns
Bad AI
Feels like a re-skinned Empire
The AI must have flunked out of the military academy
You can win some battles by exploiting the timer

Expert reviews and ratings

A French and a British infantryman use their rifles as melee weapons. Napoleon: Total War isn’t radically different from predecessors such as Empire: Total War. But its focus on the empire-building exploits of Napoleon Bonaparte provides a good...

By Macworld UK on August 14, 2013

The Little Conqueror's rise and fall manifests well as a multi-phase strategy game, particularly when players assume his emperor's cloak and character.

By MacLife on July 24, 2013

by Steven Hopper, July 31, 2010 The most recent title in The Creative Assembly’s long-running Total War franchise, Napoleon: Total War, is an era-spanning real-time strategy title that follows Napoleon Bonaparte’s campaign throughout Europe,...

By GameZone on July 31, 2010

Simply the best game in the series to date, and an early contender for best strategy game of the...

By Atomic MPC on April 21, 2010

It is hard to fathom that yes, another year went by since Sega released Empire: Total War. That game took the franchise into the age of gunpowder. Finally armchair strategists were able to partake in series' characteristic epic scale using the Line...

By Hooked Gamers on March 28, 2010

In Napoleon: Total War, history repeats itself. This elaborate brain-dead bauble of a game is like Empire: Total War all over again, with all the splendor undermined by all the same sad shortcomings to provide all the familiar heartbreak. Creative...

By GameSpy on March 16, 2010

100

The latest instalment in the Total War franchise focuses on one of the greatest military tacticians of all time – Napoleon. So does it do him justice? Find out in this review.Hero or Tyrant?Whether you see Napoleon as a genius who laid the...

By BrightHub on March 09, 2010

With the famous French military general, Napoleon Bonepart as your leader, you fight for territory across land and sea in famous battles, including Waterloo, Trafalgar and Austerlitz. In many ways, the latest game in Creative Assembly’s...

By HEXUS.net on March 08, 2010

A few hours into Napoleon: Total war, I realised that - across almost fifteen years of empire building strategy games - I've never played a single campaign, in any game, as the French....

By Play TM on March 04, 2010

Let's not beat about the bush - Napoleon: Total War, for all intents and purposes, is a good game. That's not to say we thought it was going to be bad, but we're mildly surprised because this is a remarkably solid experience for something...

By Strategy Informer on March 01, 2010

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