Empire: Total War

Empire: Total War - Special Forces Units & Bonus Content

In a time when a soldier's life could be given easily and quickly, it took extreme courage and determination for a true hero to forge a reputation for themselves. Whether through harsh and highly disciplined…

4 March 2009

What Empire: Total War - Special Forces Units & Bonus Content is

Empire: Total War - Special Forces Units & Bonus Content is a strategy game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2009. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

In a time when a soldier's life could be given easily and quickly, it took extreme courage and determination for a true hero to forge a reputation for themselves. Whether through harsh and highly disciplined training, generations of successful military tradition or world-leading technology, the Empire: Total War Elite Units are among the very best of the best. The Special Forces Units introduces six of the most influential military forces of the 18th Century. True to the period, these exclusive elite units become available on the campaign map via a certain faction or once a specific geographical region is under control. This pack also includes three more exclusive Elite Units, previously…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Empire: Total War - Special Forces Units & Bonus Content launched on 4 March 2009, within three weeks of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2.

Released around the same time: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.

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