The Multi-player Drop in Campaign or Single-Player Drop in Campaign are AWESOME. You get to fight the computer AI on the strategic map, but in the battles you face a Human Opponent, which as we all know, even the dumbest human is better than the smartest AI.

It's incredibly fun and challenging. If you liked TW and wanted it to be easy to do Multi-player battles, you'll like Napoleon.

Ahh cheers i did a little bit of research and once i stop playing through kings bounty ill be sure to buy it 

I can't bring myself to even look at this game after paying $50 for empire. Worst gaming purchase of my entire life, hands down. Never again, CA. I hope Elemental takes the place of all games you make for the next 10 years. 

well, only if someone makes a real-time battles mod

Now I just want to fight (as the Fuedal Japanese) against massive chinese armies.

The new trailer is out. Please note: All footage captured in-game.

Incredible stuff..

I've got Complete and Total faith that Shogun 2 is going to kic Serious Ass!!! Should be the best one in the series yet. They boosted the amount of units you control from 20 to 30 for starters and for once the AI will be able to handle putting troops on boats and launching invasions (a common problem that has plagued them with Every game at launch). I also saw some new art work for the game that showed Ninjas, so...Ninjas are IN!!! Can't wait.

Oh man this will be the most amazing TW game yet, that's for sure.. that new video was jaw dropping.

Sh!t yeah it was. Honestly it took a lot to think that was all actual in game footage. Granted I've seen them do some impressive things, like the water effects in Empire, but that was almost too good to be true. When the boats were sailing and it first showed them and the waterline, and then when the samurai are sitting under the tree and the cherry blossoms were falling around them, those things were hard to buy as "in game" and not cinematic. If it is though, I'm impressed. I feel sorry for anyone who's going to try to run this on a older system though...lol. With all those effects if the person running it has anything less than a quad core it's gonna be lag city for them.

It still looks amazing though. I would have loved to see Elemental's battles done in that kind of scale.

It all looked rendered to me, because the distant objects dont degrade into horrid peices of crap like all TW games do lmao.

A thing I've think people do lately is rather than setup max or something with in game assests to render they have a special mode of their game which renders to file (a movie) at stupid resolutions with full detail on all objects. Maybe something like that?

The distance rendering issues went out with Empire brother, where you been?

Seriously though, they did. Empire with all options cranked to Ultra looks amazing. I always turn off the distance blur effect though simply because I don't like it. I'd rather have the distance objects be clear and sharp even if it is a little unrealistic.

Maybe this is just hyperbole, but this in game sequence looks better than a lot of the SC2 scenes, save for the few obviously farm renderd parts. I would also have loved to have seen elemental's battles on that scale, but if we don't get that with Elemental or its expansions, or mods, there's always Elemental 2

Hopefully the demo for this is better then the demo for Empire: Total War. That one turned me off the game completely.

I hope this will not be another Steam exclusive. 

Really? Have a look at cavalry in the distance in empire, at max settings (on a 285) they look reallah bad.