MIG-31

SEGA Europe Ltd. today announce that Empire: Total War™ will incorporate Steamworks™, a complete suite of publishing and development tools that offers PC game developers and publishers access to the game features and services available through Steam.

Steamworks will support both the retail and electronic versions of the Empire: Total War game giving players game updates, downloadable content, friend-list support and achievements. To play single-player Empire: Total War, players need only to connect to the internet once via the Steam client after installing the game.
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Source: Steam

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Al_Vampyre

Pre-purchase now? It's got a February 2009 release date FFS, thats over 3 months away yet. I can understand pre-ordering a collectors edition from Amazon or somewhere like that so that you're guarenteed to get it but why would anyone pre-order a digital distribution?

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MIG-31

Have you opened the source link..The reason is towards the bottom you get this info.


If you pre-purchase now... you also receive Empire: Total War before release and get Rome Total War Gold to play for free right away.

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