AusGamers was lucky enough to check out a recent preview session for The Creative Assembly's forthcoming Total War update, Napoleon: Total War, and walked away verily excited at what we saw.

While Stormrise might be best forgotten, there's no denying these guys know this franchise better than their own hands, and the improvements over Empire: Total War are an excellent example of that.

It's by no means a massive revolution over the aforementioned game, but we argue it's looking better anyway.

Click here for our in-depth preview.

Looks good. Will definitely give this a try. Any news on a playable demo?

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Thats looks sweet - just like Stratego. <3 Total war.

Vive La Awesome!

I just hope that the final released version is not plagued with the crashes and seemingly endless update patches of Empire. I have been playing tabletop wargames for the past thirty years and I just love games such as this as they mean no more painting and the smell of turps.I also hope the naval battles are just as satisfying as Empire in there virtual representation.

- it's awesome that you can get the series for sweet FA on Steam

- it sucks that so many old friends are ringing me to get this game

well actually it's 4. that's 4 more than I'd like.