I completed the story mode in Napoleon. The first episode was just a tutorial, so I have nothing to complain about that. It was mostly for setting up the story. The other two - Italy and Egypt - were fun at first, but I felt they dragged on after awhile. The Italian campaign forces you to rush, so it is mostly just constant battles. The Egyptian one gives you more time and is mostly mission based, but I felt it was more boring. You mostly fight camel douchebags once you defeat Egypt, with the Ottomans secondary and the British barely doing anything. The last episode is the longest, but I felt it was far too easy. I had a bit of a hard time at first, but once I got organised I quickly won. I never even got the chance to user about half the units or any of the elite ones, although you can keep playing, so I will do it later (plus there are achievements to get). For the last episode, it is just the second battle of Waterloo, except you win (obviously). I felt it was mostly confusing, but it was nice to have something that was harder compared to the campaign. It is more of a 'panic' than anything, as it is unrealistic to be able to control everything, with it getting worse once you have to fight two armies at once.
Something really penisy is that they removed the ability to take ports and unload men to avoid the non-movement penalty. Now using a dock is the same as unloading on the coast. It is a really weird change. Overall the rest of the game is vastly improved, however. I had some minor sound issues and rare bugs, but that was it.
One of the most interesting things I thought of it were the portraits. All the generals, agents, et cetera have really nice drawings for their faces now instead of generic 3D models, and a lot of them even show up as unique models in a battle. They are drawn unrealistic sometimes, like with spies, and it looks interesting since they try to make them creepy looking with long noses, droopy faces, and other stuff like that. Some of the politicians and Napoleon during the last battle look fat and ugly, with large dark circles under the eyes, and balding, which all looks very good and reminds me of Metal Slug portraits. I would say the Napoleon one was the best, as it portrayed him young for most of the game, then extremely bad looking and old for the last battle (think of Chris-chan Weston Chandler in 10 years, whom I think looks a lot like Napoleon).
Also I played Blur but that was fucking gay.
