Well now l just hope the sega, and all the other people working on total war, hope the realease it again with the problems fixed like they did with with rome and medieval 2. I also think that Total War is realeasing Neoplean Total War abit to early, becuase l believe its gonna be plauge with problems like Empire did.

The reason why i still invest is the truth in youre publishment that you are the producers of one off the greatest game series (i am a total addict of Rome and MedievalII especially with the modded versions). Maybe its fair to state that this game has become the victim of the great titles before it. The game is not dead yet (far from that) but i would suggest to invest in making a steamportal wich makes the mods easy accessible, and as a part of the deal the things that modders make that is what you can use in inprovements because you own the rights. Internet, Youtube, wikipedia are all great because of there community, make youre products great(er) as well and stay the best! Good luck.

In essence, I said 67% public score was entirely fair, considering the state of the game AT RELEASE. Yes, it has improved dramatically since then, but even at 1.5 we’ve still got bugs (I’d like to be able to repair my forts please…as is, I’ve been tearing them down).

I do hope Napolean is more polished, and that it will add to the grand campaign of vanilla ETW. I like the grand campaign mode, I especially like that there’s now prestige victory, as well as ‘conquer X territories including these, by this date’. I look forward to see how mutliplayer campaign will work. I look forward to seeing what the next time period of the next TW will be (after Napolean, which is more of an expansion, EVEN IF it will be stand-alone).

Anyways, keep plugging along, and please keep supporting ETW. It still needs love.

- You really ought to consider breaking the game into modules if at all possible and letting gamer groups put the individual modules through their paces and make suggestions- you might be shaking your head, but I can just about guarantee we get treated like a herd of guinea pigs ala Empire again and you know where I’m going. Consider even an unpolished, Flash game style presentation of what the final product would play like and I’m certain there would be at least SOME useful feedback coming your way

-Finally, within the game itself, I thought that a lot of gamers might appreciate getting a bit more in game reward “moments”. Leveling up, finishing missions– all of these things are what we play for; the reward, the victory, the sense of accomplishment. All I was going to recommend with this was that the game pause a bit more at these moments and do more to recognize what the player did to arrive at this moment in the game– a montage perhaps of critical moments in battles, important decisions made, all culminating in the player being crowned, having a medal pinned on, whatever– but it just seems too often that this aspect of gaming gets overlooked– BUT– if you look back at the “old” games– M1 Tank Platoon, for example, you could always promote and award medals to your crews– this in turn led to you ( at least I did) caring about them continuing on with you from mission to mission. And I guess that’s what I feel like has been a glaring ommission from Empire and really, Medieval and Rome too– you saw the supposed generals in the game– but why should you care about them? Live or die, no sweat, either way you can get another one. I am merely submitting that when you cause the gamer to form an emotional attachement to the characters and story, you have dramatically increased the value of the game to that player. All the graphics out there can’t do that, as several animators have learned– it still comes down to the story and making the viewer care about it.