Empire: Total War DEMO RELEASED!!

[Chalex4]

The Empire: Total War demo will take you through the basics of land and naval command and then let you loose on two historic scenarios. As one of the greatest British development studios, The Creative Assembly invites you to try Empire: Total War from the position of their "home" side! Playing as the British Empire, you'll take on the American Army in the pivotal "Battle of Brandywine Creek" and then the French Navy in the decisive "Battle of Lagos."

System Requirements:

• Supported OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™
• Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® or greater or AMD® Athlon® equivalent CPU
• Memory: 1GB RAM (XP,) 2GB RAM (Vista™)
• Graphics: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory
• Display: Minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
• Sound: Directx9.0c compatible sound card
• Hard Drive: 15 GB free hard disk space
• Peripherals: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard

It was released today (20th Feb) and I am shocked (and appalled) Chazlene hasn't posted it here already!!

Anyway, you can find it on Steam here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/10620/

It won't be a fast download though, as the Steam servers are totally knackered with soooooo many people downloading it worldwide. At the time of posting, I'm only getting 60KB/s although it does randomly hop back up to 400KB/s!!!!

Post your opinions etc below!! Can't wait to try it out .

[Chazlene]

I don't really need to say that I'm downloading it do I.

I'm getting on average 80 KB/s, which is alright considering my shitty connection. Everyone on the Total War forums are saying how slow it's going for them, and that their download keeps stopping and all that, which really shows why you shouldn't buy the full game on Steam, it's 15GB, as well as being extremely expensive compared to Play, Game and Amazon.

For fellow historians here, here's the Wikipedia articles on the battles featured in the demo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_brandywine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lagos