Empire: Total War 2009

Is it still worth playing?

Creative Assembly's 2009 turn based strategy and real time tactics game, the fifth Total War, set in the early modern period from 1700 to the end of the 18th century. It centers on exploration, economics, politics, religion, founding colonies and conquest, and you lead a nation to dominate Europe, the Middle East, India, North America and the Caribbean, along with maritime trade theaters. It has two parts. In a turn based campaign you move armies and navies across the globe and conduct diplomacy, trade and espionage. In real time battles you command forces on land and at sea. More than fifty 18th century factions appear, and eleven of the most powerful are playable. Even now, a campaign that includes the sea as well as the land gives the age of sail its own shape.