That doesn’t mean there aren’t some excellent choices with which to spruce up the vanilla experience, however, some of which are still being maintained today.Įmpire: Total War kicked off the modern era for the series with shiny new 3D graphics, a new updated engine, and an advanced time period set during the Age of Colonisation and the truly ‘global’ setting. It’s over ten years old now and Empire was never the most popular Total War game, so the scene is quite mature and in some respects, sparse. Let’s take a look at some Empire: Total War mods.