
PC Zone writes: "War shouldn't be this much fun. War should be hell and suffering, the debasement of mankind. It should be scooping beans from a can with the rib of a dead comrade then swallowing it into your dysenteric stomach. But not fun.
Only Empire, Creative Assembly's most ambitious and epic Total War game to date, is just that. Fun. How do I know this? Because I've just spent two hours playing the latest code, and as my fingers fumble to strike the correct keys to type these words, I can't help feel that Empire has the potential to utterly eclipse its illustrious predecessors."

It’s Total War Week at the Humble Store. Games in the popular strategy franchise are up to 75 percent off.
PC Invasion: Classic Total War games such as Medieval II, Empire, and Napoleon now have their Definitive Editions which includes all the DLC. Players who already own the respective base games get the DLC as a free update.

If you didn't know, Time Commanders was a TV show that ran for 3 series back into the early noughties.
This game will be my top pick of 2009 easily. Total War games are the absolute best.