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2006 · Pyro Studios · Historical · Real-time strategy

Imperial Glory

It is a time of war in Europe. Driven by new ideas of Enlightenment, the hearts of men and women across the continent are inflamed with dreams of freedom and glory. This is the moment for a military genius to forge himself a name to be remembered throughout all eternity. This is your moment.

Released
12 May 2006
Platforms
WindowsmacOS
Genres
HistoricalReal-time strategyReal-time tacticsStrategyTactical
Developers
Pyro Studios
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
HistoricalWarfare
Country
Spain
Age ratings
ESRB TUSK 12PEGI 12
Languages
Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
13hmain story15hcompletionist

About

Imperial Glory is a 2005 real-time tactics video game, developed by Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive for Microsoft Windows. Feral Interactive released a Mac OS X version of the game in December 2006.

Imperial Glory is set in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, between 1789 and 1815, and allows the player to choose one of the great empires of the age – Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia or Prussia–on their quest of conquering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The game is similar to the Total War series: it consists of a 2-D strategic campaign and fully 3-D land and naval.

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Gameplay

The basic units available to the player are the same, regardless of the nation the player controls, namely, infantry, cavalry and artillery. By seizing appropriate provinces, a player may deploy other units, such as Arabian camel cavalry. The principal units are infantry, cavalry, and artillery.

Infantry in Imperial Glory are represented as militia, line infantry, light infantry, grenadiers, riflemen and the player's country's elite force (e.g. British Black Watch). Cavalry consists of dragoons, hussars, lancers and an elite cavalry type (such as Life Guards for Britain), and it is possible to find such contemporary pieces of artillery as six-pounder cannons and howitzers.

Reception

Imperial Glory received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GameSpot highlighted its "picturesque" 3D land and naval battles and "rich" diplomacy system, but said that the land battles lack epic feel, the naval battles are tough to coordinate, and there are only five historical battles to play. They were also critical to its AI due to the lack of morale system, in which the units in the game behave unrealistically. They concluded that Imperial Glory had a lot of promise and potential, but also a few missed opportunities.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows17 May 2005North America · Europe 20 May 2005 · Australia 27 May 2005 · Worldwide 19 December 2007
macOS1 December 2006Worldwide · North America 5 December 2006

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