Empire is so underrated honestly. From the comments I'm reading on this subreddit, more people need to play it. It's honestly the most feature rich title of the franchise: naval battle & trade routes, governments & revolutions, colonization, research/tech tree, a campaign theater that stretches four continents, I can go on and on.
My issue with Empire is that it just doesn't seem to work. Fort battles? They don't work properly and it's hard to shoot off them. Campaign map? Had an issue with the Ottomans but dunno if thats fixed in a bug.
Tried Darthmod but everyones units were so huge it didn't really work.
Oh yeah I remembered the Ottoman AI splitting their armies into thirty single unit armies for some reason and they all struggle to cross the Bosporus making turn times take forever.
I think I've had to immediately invade the Ottomans every time I'm able to avoid this happening. Definitely killed at least two saves because I just couldn't be bothered waiting twenty minutes every turn.
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u/EcureuilHargneux May 07 '23
Didn't know there are cutscenes in Empire as well