

Fans of the series may find this limiting, and it's disappointing to find that the enemy AI is as forgiving as ever. Single players get several campaigns which have you playing through the main Russian or European phases in a far more linear fashion than previous games.


Like its predecessor, Empires, this epic retelling of Napoleonic warfare is both vast in scale and deep in realism. Luckily, there's no sign of that trust being misplaced with Napoleon, the latest instalment in the Total War series. W ith the PC in seemingly terminal decline as a games format, RTSs are just about the last of its native genres and Creative Assembly one of its most important developers.
