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Big disappointment!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: June 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This could have been such a beautiful game but for some reason the developers decided to hamper it to the point of being nothing more than an exercise in frustration. The battles are really fun, and the graphics are great, but you must play for three hours of "next turn" just to build up enough resources to have a minor skirmish which lasts 5 minutes and then... you start all over again! Also, for some reason which totally escapes me, they decided to place certain restrictions on each empire. I started out as England but never had enough population to build armies. Then, I tried Russia - plenty of people but never enough food. The games kept disbanding my armies due to the "severe food shortage". The number of troops in a unit is arbitrarily set to 60 max - the number of units in a command by a captain or general is arbitrarily set to a small number - the number of armies you can have in a province is arbitrarily set to 3 max. Everywhere you look in this game you find restrictions which rob it of its potential for greatness and of your chance to have some fun - isn't having fun what these games are for?

I will never understand why the developers took such a beautiful gaming engine and decided to force the game's progress to such a snail's pace. You spend most of your time clicking through the months (one month is a turn) desparately trying to build armies to have a little fun - but it never comes!

This game could have been great, but some ridiculous decisions at project management level have killed it. They should have pre-released it to a bunch of 14 year old gamers and LISTENED to their advice. Then we might have had something approaching a fun experience. As it is, you have nothing but frustration and limitation everywhere you turn with Imperial Glory.

I think this is an AWSOME game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've read the reviews below and I disagree. I think Imperial Glory is a great balance of Strategy, Tactical and Naval Combat of the 18th and 19th Century and the graphics are great. It did not work well on one of my older machines. I am running a P4 3.2ghz with a Radeon card and it runs great. Did not look or run well on a P4 1.8mghz and an older nVidea.

I have been playing it for hours. It is not an easy game to learn and you do have to read the manual and do the tutorials but I love it!!!

My review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was a bit hard to understand the game play even after going through the tutorial. But the basic understanding of the game can be grasped pretty quickly. A basic understanding of the units abilities and tactics of the time period are a big plus with this game. It does take alot of time to build up any sort of military that can conquer any other country. I don't like the fact that you are limited on countries you can trade with and declare war against, but this is only at first. The user friendly of this game makes it a good choice for anyone that may have some experience in the real time strategy games such as Civilization, or Rome total war. Overall this is an enjoyable game and even more so with some knowledge of the time period in which it is set.

Long Shipping for a highly anticipated game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: May 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

hmmmmmm it says it ships may seventh, yet Amazon lies.....their shipping has gone down since I started, I dont know how long I can keep playing the demo (DEMO IS AWESOME)

Napoleon , Blucher, Wellington....! sword, musket and cannon

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: August 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Imperial Glory covers the mid point in European imperialism, The game mainly plays out the Napoleonic Wars combined with the industrial revolution. All this lumped together in a campaign that well, is longgggg. Quick battles (land and naval)are great and stimulating. They include a pause, real time point and click order, with very slow to very fast speed of play and the naval side has a wind gauge. The campaign AI is designed to play out as if it were the 1791-1820's, (3 levels of difficulty)with each nations armies evenly matched to some degree. This is the best game covering the the age of Napoleon!....
I am still playing this game after 6 months of play. I place alot of priority on 3D graphics and they are good. You can move the camera all around units and buildings during battles.
Game Pros. Unit graphics, naval battles, easy command and control of units during battles,game pause and save adilities, beautiful terrian, straight forward technology tree and game play.
Game Cons. Limited number of unit types, and regions to control, weak AI compared to the MTW and RTW series, cannot mod game with microsoft.
If you are looking for a game to relive history then you may not like this game, but if you want to change history then the game will deliver.

If you like strategy games, this one is for you.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: February 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are terrific, the concept is intelligent. Think Rome Total War at the time of Napolean. If you are a war enthusiast, this game is for you.

JUST TERRIBLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: June 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THE GAME IS GOD AWFUL. THE ARMIES ARE NOT AS BIG AS THE SEEM TO BE, AND WHEN THE UNITS RUN THEY ARE STUCK TOGETHER AND LOOK LIKE CRAP. THE GRPAHICS ARE BAD AND THEY PLAYING MODE IS BAD AND YOU WONT LIKE IT. THE LEVELS AREN'T INTERESTING AND IT TAKES TO LONG TO START THE BATTLE. THE AI IS TERRIBLE. SOMETIMES IF YOU TOLD THE TROOPS TO WALK STRAIGHT THEY WOULD WALK BACKWORDS. THINK TWICE BEFORE BUYING

shows promise

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: March 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The interface of this game is rather confusing and the tutorial
is as always in these cases incomplete. For younger players this
design is probably not a great deal of fun.

Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you are a History junky like I am youll probably like this game.

IMPERIAL GLORY IS A BLAST

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like strategy games you'll love this one.

The campaign map is somewhat dull but the battle maps are realistic

A real plus is the realistic naval battles.

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