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Empire: Total War Available Now For Linux - Conquer Both On Land And Sea

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Empire: Total War has been release on Linux today! The game, ported by Feral Interactive, had first been hinted at through teasers and appeared in the SteamDB page several months ago as was previously covered here. Feral have been responsible for the excellent XCOM: Enemy Unknown Linux port and have made available a launch trailer for us penguins and OSX friends that you can see just below:

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It's worth noting that it's 64bit only, and multiplayer is Linux vs Linux only. A Feral Interactive developer explained the Linux vs Linux multiplayer in our comments.

About The Game
The Total War franchise is a mix of real-time tactical combat with turn-based strategic movement of armies, technological research and development of cities and provinces against a historical backdrop. Empire: Total War is set in the 18th century, featuring major European powers as playable nations as well as bits of the New World and India to dispute and conquer in due course. This was a century of large wars including the War of the Quadruple Alliance, the Seven Years' War, and both the wars of Spanish Succession and Austrian Succession. Empire is also the first game in the franchise to have featured naval battles, pitting large wooden ships with dozens of guns against one another. The main part of the game, however, are the large land battles with hundreds of men, horses and guns on each side fighting for supremacy. Leaders can affect armies and their morale and various types of battles can occur including ambushes, sieges or even a classic open field pitched battle. Even though it is mainly a wargame diplomacy plays a role as does espionage and subterfuge; it helps add another layer to what is otherwise a game about conquest and battle.

Personally, even though this game is now several years old, I am looking forward to replaying and having a few hours of fun with this. User modifications are usually the lifeblood of Total War games and Empire fortunately features hundreds of such mods that make the game an unforgettable experience.

It seems inevitable that other games in the franchise will eventually come to Linux as hinted by images of Rome 2 featured in the announcement of steam machines. This is as good a place as any for Linux gamers to familiarize themselves with the franchise. Feral have had a good track record in bringing native ports and I can't wait to see what they'll bring us next.

You can get the game on steam here where it's currently 50% off, or grab it from the Feral Interactive store to support the porters directly.

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FinCoder Dec 9, 2014
For those who have friends and money. Would you be so kind to gift this game to someone? Make sure you do this using native steam client.
Maquis196 Dec 9, 2014
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Just gave a copy to liamdawe to hand out!

Thats the "problem" (true first world problem this) that every game a porting house does, I already own! This is the only total war Ive never played, it came out during a time I had no PC to game on. Rome 1 is probably still my favourite though, Med 2 was pretty awesome though mind.

I've played too much EU4 to enjoy total war games anymore, I find them quite simple in comparison. Still, once this massive download has finished I'm going to give it a go! I hope Norway is in this game...
Waikano Dec 9, 2014
Guess I was wrong...and so much ruling the world going on. From Bioshock Infinite to Assassin's Creed Unity (although the latter being a long shot)...I guess Feral was being totally legit and letting you know that yea "Everybody wants to Rule the World."
Waikano Dec 9, 2014
Quoting: WorMzy*drools*

I may need to increase the size of my Steam partition soon!

Yea I thought a Dedicated 240 SSD was going to be enough...already having to manage my games and looking at upgrading to a 512ish.
dsngjoe Dec 9, 2014
I have enough strategy games with X-Com and Civ V. I will still buy it just to show my support for supporting Linux.
edddeduck_feral Dec 9, 2014
Quoting: MohandevirNot a big fan of this kind of games, but I think I'm going to buy it, just because Feral is awesome with the Linux community.

Keep working your magic, Feral!

Thank you that's very kind!

P.s. If you feel adventurous have a look around in the data you might find some hidden gold to save you.... ;)
Maquis196 Dec 9, 2014
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Quoting: edddeduckferal
Quoting: MohandevirNot a big fan of this kind of games, but I think I'm going to buy it, just because Feral is awesome with the Linux community.

Keep working your magic, Feral!
Thank you that's very kind!

P.s. If you feel adventurous have a look around in the data you might find some hidden gold to save you.... ;)

GOLD RUSH!
wolfyrion Dec 9, 2014
The devs who port Games to Linux should be paid also according to the binaries that each user downloaded.
I believe that steam can give this kind of stats.

thanks for the port! :D
FinCoder Dec 9, 2014
The problem with these ports are that people already have the games and wont buy them again. I already had this game. But I am considering gifting it to someone.

About total war games. There are many of them. Do they use the same engine? I am just wondering if we might soon see some other total war games ported.
coryrj19951 Dec 9, 2014
Downloading now! :D
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