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Empire: Total War (PC)

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Release Date: 03/03/09
Genre: Historic Real-Time Strategy
Developer: Creative Assembly
Publisher: Sega
ESRB Rating: Teen
ESRB Content: Alcohol Reference, Blood, Language, Tobacco Reference, Violence

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Average review score

7.8

based on 2 top critics
and 3 virtual ratings

Published on Mar 11 2009

8.0

If you can get past some glaring pathfinding and AI issues, Empire: Total War is a game without peer in the strategy genre.

Published on Mar 03 2009

10.0

Creative Assembly's latest in the Total War series is a streamlined work of strategic genius.

3 Virtual Ratings

7.0

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