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Summary: Get Ready to Immerse!
Review: I played the tutorial and was baffled at the graphics. When I went to the campaign battles, it got even more tense. Unless you are docked with a schedule, get this game because your enemies aren't just going to let you walk in and take their territory, not to mention the fact that your ranks have to be strong. I recently switched from consoles to PC's and this game I found to be top of the line. Although some may dispute, you won't be looking for the clerk to get your money back. Just have a consideralbly medium to fast processor (950Mhz or higher). Oh, and you can learn history in the process.
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Summary: Great potential -- wish I could get it to work!!!
Review: I played the demo version of this over and over, and loved it! Got the box at Christmas, loaded it, ran it -- can't run any campaigns. Uninstalled, reinstalled -- same problem.It would appear that my one-year-old PC'c video card isn't good enough for Activision. In spite of testing at 100% DirectX 8.1 compatable, and being able to use it for many other games, it can't handle M:TW. I strongly suggest that you take a look at the Tech Support board for this game at activision.com before you purchase -- make sure it will work with your system. I wish I had.
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Summary: The Title
Review: The title for this new expansion pack is "Viking Invasion". It will be sure to bring you many fun-filled hours of shield-biting berserkers, Brutal Jomsvikings, and many new factions to add to the already fabulous game.
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Summary: Great game but only good for about 3-4 campaigns
Review: Activision did a great job putting together a fluid combination of turn-based historical strategy and real-time tactical combat. I think the other reviews here cover that ground pretty well. My only issue is with re-play value. There is enough variety between the countries and time periods to play the full campaign several times. The down-side is that this only equals about three weeks of game play before you will completely master the game at it's highest difficulty levels. It's a lot of fun while it last, it just doesn't last very long.
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: This is one of the most addictive and fun games I have ever played. I spent two entire weekends beating it and it felt like I played it for about an hour. If you have played the original Shogun: Total War, this one is even better. There are most provinces/territories you need to conquer and the sides you can choose to play are much different. For example, in the original game you just played with different Japanese clans but in this game you can be the Italians, Turks, French, Germans, Egyptians, Danes and so on. This means more specific units for each clan and more variation and realism. The map is much bigger and the are at least twice the number of provinces. If you like this time period or just war games in general, I truly recommend this game. If you liked the original, I truly recommend this game. If you like video games of this genre at all, I truly recommend this game.
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Summary: ONE OF A KIND
Review: have been playing for a week only, the camara angles are something new to get used too but the game play is AWESOME. been playing AoE and Shattered Galaxy, none of the 2 can even compare to this. get this ASAP u wont be disapointed
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Summary: Unstable code and non-existant support
Review: Could be an interesting game. Only problem is I can't get through an entire game without crashing my Windows XP system. Tried to get a patch from the Creative Assembly site but the link does not work and several emails to Creative Assembly have gotten no response.
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Summary: Oh what a lovely war =)
Review: The Total War series so far contains two games,
Shogun Total War and Medieval Total War. Shogun was set in Japan with
all the Shoguns battling for control. Medieval, as the name presents,
is set in Medieval times. I had played Shogun a bit (about a month
and a half) and it had satisfied me, but I didn't really like it's
lack of unit types and small maps, plus it was almost impossible to
take provinces with rivers since your troops would all be slaughtered
going over a bridge. But hey, this isn't a review about Shogun is it?
No. Activision and Creative Assembly really outdid themselves this time
and I mean REALLY. MTW is an rts game with a twist of well, I can't
find the right word, but it's and rts with a twist of something. And
perhaps that's what makes it so addicting to play. I bought Medieval
and read the back of the box. Whoa was I surprised! Around 100 unit
types, all different. Twelve different factions are available such as
the English, French, Egyptians, Byzantines, and the Turks. You can
mod the game pretty easily as well, it's actually really easy to mod
it to play the minor factions such as the Swiss, Golden Horde, and
Aragonese among others. When I started up my first campaign game I
was very happy to view the huge map. I don't know the exact number,
but there are many, many, many provinces. Including memorable ones
such as Constantinople, Egypt, Scotland, and the Papal States. You have a treasury and you can expand that treasury through
controlling taxes of each of your provinces, establishing trade
routes over land and by sea, as well as other economic ventures like
improved farming. That treasury is used to create soldiers, buildings,
agents, and to bribe enemy generals over to your own side. You have
one king who can have heirs born if he's married and lucky. If your
king dies, one of those heirs takes control of the kingdom and becomes
the new king. It is possible if you have a particularly weak king and eldest heir,
to assasinate them both so that the stronger of his heirs takes the
throne. Kings and heirs are generals in command of their own units
and they develop through combat just like the other generals of your
army. Earning ranks as they win more battles. A big
difference in generals in Medieval is the unique vices and virtues
system. This allows your generals to earn vices and virtues as they
go along. Good and bad, these include things like Magnificent
Builder, Weak Principles, Skilled Warrior, and Incestuous Affairs
(icky). The battles you cause by moving your armies into enemy provinces have
several options for you to choose from before the battle actually
occurs. To call of the attack, auto-calculate the casualties and see
if you one, or command it yourself. In terms of defence they are auto-
calc., abandon the province, command it yourself, or if the province
has a fort or castle to retreat into it in which case the enemy army
puts you under seige. The battle system seemed to be very much
improved. The graphics were better and the landscape was crisper. The
battles were also more realistic then in Shogun. Your troops tire
easier and morale can also be affected a lot easier. Marching across
the desert battlefield to the enemy position? Expect your troops to
be very tired once you get there from baking in the sun all that
time. Seiges were a dissapointment however. A lot less use of seige engines than I had hoped and you can eventually bring down a castle
wall using a unit of weak peasants. Don't believe what the
game's box says about spectacular sieges. You can use spies on enemy generals, assasins to kill whom you wish,
emissaries to bribe generals and propose alliances/ceasfires as well
as marriages, inquisitors to try enemy generals for heresy and
hopefully have them executed, bishops to convert
populations into your religion in hopes that rebels for your religion
will rise up against the province owners if they're not of your
religion, and princesses to marry to opposing kings, heirs, and
generals in hopes of forming an alliance with that faction. There are
also many different building types in the game and many
upgrades you can add to the defense of your castles and such. There
are faction, religion, and era exclusive units as
well as those that are available to everyone. That's another thing
there are three available eras to start in. Early(1087), High(around
1220), and Late (1334). The AI is still pretty shaky on the strategic map and will frequently
do dumb things such as suicide invasions. The Pope is also a problem for Catholic factions in Medieval. If you attack another faction too much that's catholic and not
excommunicated, you'll get a warning from the pope. If you don't heed
that warning you'll get excommunicated. That makes you fair game for
invasion by other Catholic factions as well as crusades by other
Catholic factions. Crusades and Jihads are another new thing brought
in with MTW. Crusades for Catholic factions get armies added to them
by you and then can be aimed at any target province of an Orthodox
Christian, Muslum, Islamic, or excommed Catholic empire. For Muslum
and Islamic empires there are Jihads which work mainly the same as
crusades, but can only be aimed at a province taken by a non-
Muslum/Islamic empire. If you get bored of the campaign there are other Historical campaigns
comprised of battlefield battles as well as other historical single
battles that you can play. There are only 3 single battles though
which is kind of annoying.The multiplayer can be fun, but personally it got boring quick since it's battles and no strategic campaign multiplayer option. But Medieval is a good game
despite any of it's flaws. By the way, MTW doesn't seem to work on most laptops.
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Summary: If you haven't got it you're deprived!
Review: I have had this game for about 3 months now but I only get to play on it once a fortnight, still those weekends are some of the best. The game, like it's predecesser (i'm sorry i'm really bad at spelling) shogun is truely amazing. The only thing that shogun lacked was stratagy, on the main map, but medieval total war has it all:
you can be decitfull, build huge armies, ally with someone so they leave their borders unguarded and then crush the peasants left to guard them
you can marry your heirs into rivals clans and have claim to their lands when they loose their king
you can build huge infastructures and unlock the technology needed to crush your foes
you can assassinate enemy genrals and uncover vices that make the provence untrusting towards them
you can sit in the seat that many people of the time only dreamed of, controlling huge armies and using them to conquer the whole of europe
this game has no flaws, the army size has a limit yes, but if there were any more men on the battle field then you would need a super computer to run it without problems, the stratagey is superb the battles awesome, the game is a must buy and if you haven't got it you're deprived
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Summary: The best, of the best!
Review: Holy, When I first purchesed this game, it was the best game on the planet. The realistic time phrases is sweet, and it's sure as heck educational. You can actully see the whole surrounding in battle mode and it even has weather conditions. This game is far more realisticly, and adictively superior to age of empires or civilization 3. Unlike other RTS games, it actully uses tactics, and strategy, with terrain, and everything! This is the best game on earth!
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