www.cpugamer.com/reviews/4795/Empire:-Total-War-Review
"For ten years now, the AI, notorious for being erratically moronic in every installment, is still fully present in Empire: Total War, but does little to actually take away the sensation of being a megalomaniac."
"The turn-based portion is where you get your Big Picture of Wartime Fun Plan in motion as you recruit men, enter in diplomatic relations, attack opposing nations, and build brothels to keep the public order."
"As it stands, the decentralized model only simulates the amount of paperwork and approving and disapproving of building proposals any one monarch or president has to go through. I suppose that has its own kind of appeal."