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Summary: 'Ran' and 'Kagemusha' -Akira Kurosawa
Review: A beautiful game,the color,the animation is perfect. When I loaded this program to my laptop,it 'crashed' my laptop (so I removed and reinserted battery),but the second time I loaded the 'Shogun: Total War' Program,it purred like a kitten,sorry to say 'laptop'(Microsoft windows XP) still crashes. This is no x's and o's game,this is truly like watching a movie like 'Ran' or 'Kagemusha'... Next you have to punch-in a 22 digit serial number from a 'red card' located in the box,then press 'next' on the program like 8 times before you get what your looking for. The custom mode is great,you get horsemen [60],riflemen[60],lancers[60]. You get about 16 units of [60],what ever you want. Means in custom mode you can have 960 men and the enemy limited to 60,which is great,you have the control over numbers,you are the 'master' of the game play. Hope this was helpful. Update: 5/17/03,just got new laptop,'Sony VAIO PCG-GRV670 Notebook','Intel P4,2.6GHz Processor w/400 MHz,512MB DDR RAM Memory,40GB Harddrive,ATI Radeon 9000(64MB of dedicated video memory),8X DVD ROM Drive,can get you 'in' and 'out' of 'Shogun:Total War' and 'Medieval: Total War' with a smile on your face,guaranteed! You can play these games on laptop after all! You learn something new every day,ready for 'Rome: Total War'!!!
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Summary: GREAT GAME Bad graphics!
Review: Great game, really cool...really nice...better and bigger than Shogun. But the graphics stink bad..and obviously I am not the only one telling about the graphics..So be ware...yes it is a nice, but WATCH OUT you might lose Europe in the middle of the War...it just dissapears...
and your soliders Well...they look like the BLOB. you cant tell which is a LAncer, a Spear man and which one is a Knight they all look like CHOCOLATE FUDGE...........THE BLOB EFFECT Again dont be surprise if you see HUGE WHITE POLYGONS rather than the terrain or the MAp.......and rather than soliders BLOBS of colors...mixed up... IF you play at 860 by 600 you might get away with a better looking game but hey I want to use 1024 which my card supports........ I play Shougun at 1024 and it looks nice...so....I have the directX that comes with XP. I asked these guys and they told me go and get the directx 8.1. But they are missing the point Windows XP comes with directX 8.1, there is no directx update for windows XP. I saw in the screenshots they had online.......well forget it you will never see the game look like that..
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Summary: Sheer Brilliance
Review: Short story - brilliant, playable for years, fantastic strategy game Long story - this is greatest game that ever lived, I liked the first Total war, shogun, and was looking forward to this release for months before it came out. I've played through 2 campaigns now, and it just keeps getting better. As your numbers of troops and provinces increase as you extend an iron fist (or love and happiness) across europe, you soon start to appreciate the finer points of planning and command. Do not think to yourself "I'm not a role-playing, turn based type" because I'm not either, you get used to the map planning and army moving very quickly, it's the heroic battles where the game is absolutely brilliant, different terrains and maps keep it interesting when you have to attack the same place repeatedly and always a challenge. As you develop as a commander use the features of the land to your advantage and know your enemy! This is the greatest game I ever played, it's not a game, it's more important than that. BUY IT NOW, you will never regret it.
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Summary: i'm sure it would be great, too bad it won't install
Review: P4 1.8 ghz, 256 ram, geforce2, win xp, basically a nice current pc and of course the only game i've been dying to get since shogun:tw doesn't crash or freeze up while playing: it locks up and terminates during the install. activision's space cadets aren't helping either (sorry guys, but i've done the scandisk, defrag, closed background apps and programs, updated drivers, et al.) so my rating for medieval:tw has to be -5 stars unless techsupport can do a 180 before i return this lemon.
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Summary: Great Game
Review: I truly enjoyed this game. It had all the same premises of Braveheart, without the horribly sufficating details. The battle scenes are outstanding, with the ability to truly apply strategy and watch that strategy play out. All in all, a great game.
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Summary: Finally, a game reminiscent of Lords of the Realm II
Review: For those of you waiting for Lords of the Realm III, your wait is over! Medieval: Total War has the same turn-based strategy game intermixed with a real-time warfare simulator that made the LotR series so popular, only with improvements. The strategy portion of the game involves managing your regions to produce income, train troops, improve trade, etc. There is also ample room for negotiations and alliances with other rulers throughout the game. Each turn you are allowed to build troops and buildings on each region you control. If you happen to move troops into a conflict situation, the conflict can be resolved by the computer, or you can take the field and personally see to the attack or defense. If this is the case the game moves into the real-time combat simulator mode. The best feature of the battle simulator is troop command. No longer are you required to drag the cursor over the field to select each individual man. My experience with this method is either not selecting all of the troops you want, thus leaving some behind the rest of the group, or inadvertently selecting troops you don't want, thus having some archers charging in with your cavalry. In Medieval: Total War your troops are grouped into units with anywhere from 50 to 200 soldiers per unit. You can select and command each unit, thus making orchestrating battle maneuvers much simpler than ever before. The formation, spacing, and even the attitude of each unit can be set simply and quickly. Units can also be grouped to allow for easier movement of exceptionally large number of troops. Terrain position, high ground, visibility, weather, cover, lighting, and more all play a part in aiding or hindering your movements and combat effectiveness. This seems to have a "Sid Meier's: Gettysburg" feel to it. After the battle surviving units are awarded valor points for their involvement in the fight; therefore, seasoned veterans are better soldiers than the green troops with little or no combat experience. The graphics of Medieval: Total War are very good. When watching rocks hurled through the air by your catapults at the enemy stronghold you can see chips and dust fly into the air. You can actually see individual arrows fired from archers sailing through the air, and birds circling the sky over the fallen. And with the graphics is superb 3D sound to immerse you in the heat of battle. It almost feels like you're surrounded by the fighting soldiers! All in all, this is a must for any fan of medieval strategy games or medieval war games. If you happen to like both genres, you cannot hope to improve upon this game. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Great Game Bad Graphics
Review: I have played Shogun, Medival Demo and now the real MEdival and was disapointed by the graphics, incredibly they turned to be worst than Medival Trial version. I can understand that a product gets better but that it gets worst I cant...in this case the product came behind the trial as far as graphics is concerned. As far as for the strategy and the rest and how the game is put together I give it a 4 star..graphics 1 star. This game was reviewed by gamers online and scored 8.5 out of 10 all because the graphics............... A message to you guys in the land down under "Put the graphics back the way it was on the demo"
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Summary: Very fun strategy game
Review: The stategic element of the game is very well done! The 3-D battles are merely a bonus. The turn based map can best be described as Defender of the Crown meets Civilization. There are pre-defined territories that are based on real medieval lands. The strategic gameplay is deep enough to be to be fun, but not so complex that it's tedious. There is really too much to talk about to go into detail, but it's really fun. The 3-D battles are much more realistic than real time games like war craft and age of empires. Medieval takes things such as Morale, dicipline, leadership, weather and fatigue into account. The graphics are fine, but they are not great. Naturally, the each soldier is going to be kinda small in order to fit so many guys onto the field at once. But this doesn't detract anything from the game IMO, but it may disappoint those who just want eye candy. As one whose been disappointed with recent medieval strategy games, Medieval: Total War was a very pleasant suprise!
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Summary: Medieval Review
Review: EVERYONE STOP BUYING THE SIMS AND GET A REAL GAME! Everyone who likes simulation games should get this game. Everyone who likes Strategy games should get this game. Everyone who breathes and has a beating heart should get this game. Enough said.
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Summary: I wish I could give it negative stars
Review: I really, really looked forward to buying and playing this game. I looked forward to it so much that when I bought it and found the color was missing from the soldiers, I happily paid up eighty dollars to have a new video card put into the system which was more compatible with the game. Problem solved? Wrong. While the game allowed me to play individual battles, it refused to let me enter the campaign mode. The campaign mode is the crucial part of the game system. Without it, you can't build empires or have anywhere near the fun that playing Shogun Total War gave you. I tried working with the support techs at Activision to fix the problem. I wanted to play the game so much that I didn't mind running up my long-distance bill on their toll-call support line talking to support techs trying one solution after another. But when all was said and done, I still had a malfunctioning game that the techs couldn't fix. And it's no great comfort to hear one of them say that he has a system similar to mine, and it works just fine on that. So what am I left with? Nothing except two cds that I can use as... drink coasters. To sum it up, "Medieval Total War" has been "Medieval Total Disappointment."
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