Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe. Empire: Total War takes the Total War franchise to the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment -a time of political upheaval, military advancements, and radical thought captured in stunning detail.

The year is 1701. Fuelled by gunpowder, an escalating arms race between the world's superpowers will see gigantic warships bristling with cannon take to the oceans, while ranks of musketeers and field guns line up across the battlefields of Europe, America and India.