Empire Deluxe

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Description

An updated version of White Wolf's earlier Empire game, which was based on a wargame dating back to early mainframe days. One to six players (human or computer with three levels of intelligence) compete to conquer the world using their ground, air, and sea units.

There are three versions of the game available: basic, standard, and advanced. The basic game provides the minimal types of units, a completely viewable map, and basic production rules. The standard game adds some new units, forces you to explore the map to view it, and slightly modifies the production rules. Finally, the advanced game (for the true wargamer) adds even more types of units, terrain effects on movement and sighting, and slightly more complicated production rules.

In addition to playing one or more people around the same computer, you could play via mail (by posting disks back and forth), e-mail, modem, network, or direct serial link.

The game also came with some preset scenarios and maps for players to use. Additionally, there was an editor that let players create their own maps and scenarios.

Copy protection was a compromise between security and player convenience. Rather than looking up a word in the manual every time the game was run, this was only required when running the separate executable that set game options. (Screen resolution, sound options, etc.) Naturally, you always had to run it before playing the first time.

White Wolf and New World Computing also released a scenario disk for the game and later released the Windows version with the extra scenarios on CD-ROM.

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• Empire games

User Reviews

A classic, timeless masterpiece	DOS	Rick Jones (111)
The Classic War-game gets a wonderful conversion	Windows 3.x	Simon Haller (17)
A fine example of a classic wargame....	Windows 3.x	Chris Martin (1204)
A great update of a classic computer game!	DOS	Lee Seitz (720)

Critic Reviews

Power Play	DOS	Apr, 1993	85 out of 100	85
Play Time	DOS	1993	84 out of 100	84
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	May, 1994	10 out of 12	83
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	DOS	1993	80 out of 100	80
PC Joker	DOS	Apr, 1993	80 out of 100	80
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Sep, 1993		80
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Apr, 1993	79 out of 100	79
Play Time	DOS	Jun, 1993	70 out of 100	70
The Good Old Days (Staff Reviews only)	DOS	Jul 25, 2020	4 out of 6	67
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Jun, 1993	Unscored	Unscored

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Extras

Empire Deluxe was packaged with a notepad featuring New World Computing's emblem (a sword through the Earth) and contact information. Also included was an order form for the original Empire, renamed Empire Classic.

Related Web Sites

• Dan Meadow's Empire Deluxe Strategy & Tactics (Some Empire Deluxe basics, plus strategies, tactics, and some links.)
• Empire Deluxe Map/Scenario Page (A collection of player-created maps and scenarios.)
• Killer Bee Software (Mark Kinkead has acquired the rights for Empire Deluxe and is working on a new version for current PCs, including play over the Internet.)
• The Empire Vault (Playing tips, scenarios, utilities, and more available for download.)