Total War EMPIRE Review (Android)

Total War EMPIRE Review, EMPIRE brings Total War’s real-time battles and grand turn-based strategy into the 18th-century age of exploration and conquest. Lead great powers in a race for dominance — from Europe to India and the Americas. Command vast fleets and armies in an era of rapid scientific advances, global conflict, and momentous political change. This is the complete Total War: EMPIRE desktop experience, expertly adapted for iOS and Android, with redesigned user interfaces and extensive quality-of-life improvements.

The phone used for this review is a Google Pixel Pro 7.

Total War EMPIRE Review Pros:

• Beautiful console-quality graphics.
• Requires Android 12 or later.
• 11.02GB Download size.
• All additional DLC unit packs included –
  • Special Forces Units.
  • Elite Units of the West.
  • Elite Units of America.
  • Elite Units of the East.
• Includes “Road to Independence”, an episodic mini-campaign leading to the formation of the United States.
• The Battle mode, allows you to create custom battles or re-enact famous clashes.
• Strategy gameplay.
• The tutorials are more manual-based. When the game is downloading, you can access the full manual to brush up or learn.
• Full touchscreen support for controls.
• It has everything the desktop version has for the single-player experience.
• Plays in landscape mode.
• Awesome soundtrack, very powerful and impactful.
• Impressive on-screen unit count.
• Battery saver option that will limit performance for the sake of battery power.
• Accessibility options -Dyslexia-friendly font option, and turn-on and off distortion effects.
• Four battles and campaign difficulties – Easy, Normla, Hard, and very hard.
• Game speed can be set to incremental or individual.
• Manual camera tilt option with the ability to invert the tilt.
• The UI can be manually set to tablet or phone. There is an auto-detect for the lazy.
• Four game modes – Grand Campaign, Play Battle, Road to Independance, and Battle tutorials.
• The Grand campaign lets you fully set up your game from selecting your country to play as, campaign length (Long/World domination/Short), campaign difficulty, battle difficulty (they are separate), battle time limit, religion, and forts (modern/original), and advisor help.
• Automatic city management is an option you can turn on to have the AI control construction in your region.
• in-game cutscenes and character interactions.
• So much content for your money.
• Each country in the Grand campaign has its own set of objectives.
• Occasional tutorial pop-ups and help messages are needed but also have images and video.
• A full 3D game world and you can zoom in and out and around the world.
• Click anywhere to get a descriptive tooltip.
• The game runs really well and looks so impressive.
• Do not fear the controls, they have streamlined them and made them very accessible and obvious.
• Make trade deals and business opportunities with other world leaders.
• You can choose to invade or be invaded by your opponents.
• Multiple-choice encounters are commonplace, you are usually faced with a question or action to take which shapes the game world.
• Near infinite replay value.
• Press and hold the screen to change the game speed or momentarily speed up the game.
• Everything you could possibly need is not only clearly marked but also readily available whether it be the state of the world, region food levels, or battle reports.
• Fog of war is in play so you have to uncover the map by exploring.
• Save and load when you want.
• A three-finger swipe on the screen will bring up the pause menu.
• The Road to Independence game mode has three episodes and a fourth United States episode.
• You can still edit and configure the game settings like difficulties etc in the Road to Independance mode.
• Was very surprised to find that my game didn’t just melt into a pile of plastic after two minutes of play.
• Replays can be saved of battles and re-watched in the play battles menu.
• Play battle is like the arcade mode – you have control over every game option and what type of battle it will be – Land, Sea, Siege, and a set scenario.
• Two battle tutorial options – War on land, and war at sea.
• Tooltips on all the menus and icons on your hud.
• You can create and group units up together and then quickly give orders or swap them.
• Honestly cannot get over how well it plays and how good it looks.

Total War EMPIRE Review Cons:

• No Google Play Achievements.
• A lot to take in.
• The game is a huge download, You expect it but still.
• No Multiplayer in the game so it is single-player only.
• The loading times are not always the fastest but I mean it’s a huge game.
• You have to complete each episode in Road to Independence to unlock the next one.

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Total War EMPIRE:

Official website.

Developer: Feral Interactive

Publisher: Feral Interactive

Store Links –

Google Play Store