![]() ![]() However, the peaceful route can be a bit frustrating, as you can easily spend years and thousands of resources to improve relations with a country to the point that it's almost ready to join your empire, only to see a rival empire simply invade and take it over. And this is something that you'll spend a lot of time doing, thanks to the full-featured diplomatic system that lets you grant rights of passage, loan armies, form defensive alliances as well as coalitions, and even marry off a prospective heir to another heir to improve relations. In order not to be swept into the dustbin of history by its neighbors, nations formed varying coalitions to try to stave off this threat (namely France). Russia is huge, but it's stuck on the outskirts of Europe.Īs a strategy game, Imperial Glory, for the most part, captures the diplomatic balancing act that was the Napoleonic Wars. The United Kingdom, on the other hand, can afford to sit back safely behind the Royal Navy, though it has trouble generating the production and population that the other empires can. France perhaps has the easiest road to travel, whereas Prussia and Austria find themselves surrounded on three sides by three very menacing empires. Your challenges will vary, depending on the nation you choose to play as. The turn-based strategy section is perhaps the best part of the game, and it can be an enjoyable, although very slow-paced, affair. That all sounds good, but in practice it turns out that Imperial Glory finds itself lacking in many departments. Imperial Glory also goes one better than Total War by including naval battles, so you can take your sloops and frigates into action. ![]() And when armies meet, you have the option of letting the computer automatically calculate the results, or you can drop down into a real-time, 3D battlefield and control your various infantry, artillery, and cavalry battalions on the map. Following the Total War formula means that you spend a lot of time on a strategic, turn-based map that looks a bit like the board game Risk. However, you can assimilate them into your empire, through conquest or peaceful integration, and that's pretty much what you'll spend much of the game doing as you attempt to conquer Europe nation by nation. While there are about a dozen other minor countries in the game, such as Portugal and Denmark, you aren't able to play as them. In Imperial Glory, you can control one of the five principal European powers of the Napoleonic Wars: France, the United Kingdom, Prussia, Austria, and Russia. The turn-based portion of Imperial Glory is slow-paced, but enjoyable, as you try to conquer Europe. That leaves Imperial Glory feeling very much like an uneven first step, which is a pity, because it does have a lot of promise. However, in copying the formula of Total War, Pyro Studios, the designers of Imperial Glory, have missed the small nuances and details that made the Total War games, in particular Medieval and Rome, something special. After all, Creative Assembly's popular strategy franchise has gotten bigger and better with every release. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Imperial Glory is a game that wants to be the next Total War. ![]()
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