{"id":4254,"date":"2009-12-04T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T01:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2009-12-04T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T01:02:16","slug":"empire-total-war-%e2%80%93-campaign-multiplayer-open-beta-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=4254","title":{"rendered":"EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR \u2013 CAMPAIGN MULTIPLAYER OPEN BETA REVEALED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR \u2013 CAMPAIGN MULTIPLAYER OPEN BETA REVEALED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elite Units of America DLC announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 4<sup>th<\/sup> December 2009<\/strong> \u2013 SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced that the 1 VS 1 Campaign Multiplayer Open Beta of the critically acclaimed <strong>Empire: Total War\u2122<\/strong> will be available to all Empire: Total War consumers globally on December 7<sup>th<\/sup> via STEAM. This Multiplayer Beta will allow 2 players to go head to head or cooperative against the AI on the full campaign map of<strong> Empire: Total War<\/strong>, including all 3 theatres of war. The free Campaign Multiplayer Beta is only available for owners of <strong>Empire: Total War<\/strong>, to get access sign up for the Beta Program on <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000295\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.totalwar.com\/\">www.totalwar.com<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter over 6 months of internal testing, we\u2019re happy to finally give all players of Empire: Total War a taste of the future of Total War,\u201d says Mike Simpson,<em> <\/em>Creative Director at the Creative Assembly, \u201cInformation and user feedback gathered from this Open Beta should help us getting the Campaign Multiplayer mode ready to be a regular feature in upcoming titles<br \/>\nin the Total War series\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also on December 7<sup>th<\/sup>, the Elite Units of the America Downloadable Content for <strong>Empire: Total War<\/strong> \u00a0will be released, adding 15 new elite units to the American, British and French factions of <strong>Empire: Total War<\/strong>. In the last half of the 18th century, the political upheaval from thirteen of the British Colonies in North America ultimately led to the 1776 Declaration of Independence and changed history for ever. The 15 units from the Elite Units of America Downloadable Content have all played a major part in the American Revolution. Though their background owes a lot to European military traditions , their identity is tied to the destiny of the United States, and gave these men courage and audacity like no other soldier on the battlefields.<br \/>\nThe Elite Units of America are only available via STEAM for the price of \u00a31.99\/ \u20ac2.99\/ US$3.25\/ AU$3.95.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Empire: Total War<\/strong><em> <\/em>is set in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century, a turbulent era that is the most requested by <em>Total War\u2019s<\/em> loyal fan base and a period alive with global conflict, revolutionary fervour and technological advances. <em>Empire: Total War <\/em>was released on the 6<sup>th<\/sup> of March 2009 and has expanded this October with <em>The Warpath Campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For further information on Empire: Total War please visit <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000295\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.totalwar.com\/\">www.totalwar.com<\/a>. For assets on Empire: Total War or other SEGA games please visit <a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000295\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.sega-press.com\/\">www.sega-press.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR \u2013 CAMPAIGN MULTIPLAYER OPEN BETA REVEALED Elite Units of America DLC announced. Friday 4th December 2009 \u2013 SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced that the 1 VS 1 Campaign Multiplayer Open Beta of the critically acclaimed Empire: Total War\u2122 will be available to all Empire: Total War consumers globally on December 7th via<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=4254\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}