|
Imperial Glory (PC DVD) | 
 enlarge | From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £2.81
You Save: £32.18 (92%)
New (8) Used (4) from £2.81
Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 1441
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Genre: military-strategy-games
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 16 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5032921021739
ASIN: B0002ZO2Z2
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: ** SHIPPED FROM MAINLAND UK ** ** NEW ** These are an overstock from our retail shop and were therefore opened for display purposes, so may contain the odd mark on the case/disc from fingers etc.. All of the stock we have is Brand New and Unused. Available for IMMEDIATE dispatch by 1st class INSURED post in a STURDY box for protection. Buy from a trusted, professional UK registered business with full aftersales support and dedicated customer service agents.
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Incredible! May 18, 2008
Sam Vincent
I bought Imperial Glory for 5, it's worth 30!
I was stunned with the overall gameplay and graphics.
The battles are so realistic, the controls are simple and
similiar to that of Rome Total War.
Sum it up in one word: Magnificent!
A strong and well thought out turn based game February 9, 2008
Mrs. K. L. Macallister (Oban, Argyl, Scotland)
As the title suggests this is a good game, however it does not quite have the depth of some other turn based games i.e. Rome: Total War. To an extent the game can be infuriating because it only lets you play as, Austria, Great Britain, France, Prussia or Russia. I would have loved the game and given it a streight 5 stars if there were even just 2 more factions. I would Recomend the Ottoman Empire and Spain. This Brings me onto my second gripe with the game. Some of the teriorys are to big. I'm talking about the Ottoman's main region and a few others. If these regions were broken up and the faction number was incresed i would like the game a lot more. Let this not detur you from buying the game however. Buy it and have a good old Napolionic campaign.
TW vs IG 2nd Round October 9, 2007
Hoddy (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having bought and played this game well before the Medieval II and Rome: Total War epics charged about the gaming shelves, I was not disappointed and nor did I have expectations in comparison with Total War. Personally I find Total War to be a more satisfactory RTS; the scale and detail is what clinches what I think is a close match. Now with Total War: Empire on the horizon I foresee many a Total War fan flocking to the stores to purchase IG whose naval battles I suspect will be similar to those Creative are preparing for their RTS. Indeed..I could be so bold as to say Creative will be making a sharper IG, giving it a "Total War" makeover.
And so for this reason I think the game for fans of Total War is a must buy. For those who have not played Total War because you simply do not wish too or the system requirements are too high then IG is a perfect choice and will provide you with as much depth in construction as Total War would.
Despite the engagements on land being far smaller in scale the tactical nowse required IS more challenging. Casualties occur far more easily meaning your forces must be balanced and used appropriately. The ability to hold key buildings on the Battle Map is particularly pleasing and is something which Medieval II lacks (unless you are assaulting a castle, settlement or fort) though this is more to do with the tactics at the time.
The Campaign Map provides a few frustrations, particularly when attempting to trade using built trading vessels which can only be viewed using the "economic" overlay. And when attempting to land forces in hostile territories, if I remember rightly, you are only able to land troops onto enemy territories which have docks (while realistic) I find when attempting to drag my army from the boat to the territory it does not register and the troops remain on board (more likely my cack handed attempts).
But such things are easily overlooked once you get the hang of them and the game comes into its own. Well worth its price tag these days.
The Napoleonic Empire: 1799-1815 CE October 9, 2007
Conrad Jalowski
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Imperial Glory offers a succinct and assiduously researched history biography behind that zeitgeist's current autonomous European empires: Great Britain, France, Prussia, Russia and Austria from 1799-1815 CE. Through multitudinous subjugations of the inimical, the belliferous chiliarch, Napoleon Bonaparte, managed to subjugate and sow opprobrium on his multifarious antagonists, such as at Lodi, Marengo, Jena, Austerlitz, Friedland and Wagram, though he himself was subjugated at Eylau (Pyrrhic Victory), Borodino (Pyrrhic Victory), Leipzig and Waterloo. He was heavily influenced by Frederick II 'Eupator' and Gustavus Adolphus with strategic warfare in surreptitious means (subterfuge) and not the pedantic, the poliorcetics of key strategic points usually at confluences to establish cleruchies and symmachies, and to concentrate all the forces at the decisive point as promulgated by Karl von Klausewitz.
The history behind Imperial Glory talks of the antithetical ditrichotomous powers: Revolutionary France and the established despotates and autarchies. One example of the Prussian autarchy and its peripherals and palatinates was the Silesian Wars from 1740-1742 and 1744-145 CE under the hegemony and suzerainty of Frederick II 'Eupator' of Prussia: 1772-1786 CE, Duke of Brandenburg: 1740-1786 and Duke of Orsfriesland: 1744-1786 CE at the hoplomachies and velitations of Hohenfriedberg: 1745 CE, Rossbach: 1756 CE and Leuthen: 1756 CE.
In the game you also get to use historical units such as the hussar in the ilai: 225 cataphracts in a closed phalanx with 1200 Hastati, 1200 Principes and 600 Triarii as the infantry contingents. Hussars, for example, were used in the Polish-Lithuanian Oligarchy on 1514 CE, 1531 CE, 1588 CE, 1601 CE, 1605 CE, 1610 CE, 1629 CE, 1673 CE, 1675 CE and 1683 CE in the tradition of the Grecian Byzantines: 395-1453 CE, the Sassanians: 226-561 CE and the Palmyrenes: 260-273 CE
All in all, Imperial Glory is the epitome of a real time strategy game, it being historically accurate, containing voluptuous graphics and providing excellent script commands.
A 9.5/10.0
Imperial Glory 4, Total War 0. October 4, 2007
Paranoid (England (Cambridge))
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can't agree with other reviewers that this game comes off badly compared to Total War (Rome & Mediaeval 2). I've tried the Total War games and find the strategy side strictly for children and the battles neither here nor there compared to IG.
With Imperial Glory the strategy side is much more absorbing and I find the battles fascinating and visually impressive. People have complained about the AI of the units, but I think they miss that you can set units to automatic attack, so troops of lancers won't just sit quietly on their horses while an enemy line of infantry mows them down!
I leave the sea battles to the AI - I tried learning how to fight these but couldn't get to grips with it.
When this came out, the gaming mags said it was a few improvements off being a truly great game. I think its fine as it is, but it is a shame the developers didn't stick with this and release an update. There's much more you could do with this in addition to redesigning it for other periods. Increase the detail of the strategy side, add different units, add the ability to play as countries apart from the five empires, etc.
My only complaint would be that, as an inexperienced (and older than average) gamer, it took me ages to work out how everything was done. The manual and tutorial, as is common, tells you WHAT you can do but rarely do they tell you HOW to do it.
That aside, this and Football Manager are the only two games I deem worthy to spend great swathes of my spare time on.
|
|
|
www.pcprotech.co.uk | |
