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Summary: Even better.
Review: You won't believe the different add-ons this game supplies compared to the first edition. From little differences to big differences. Some you notice right away, others may take awhile. Great, especially if you are a fan of the first edition of Shogun.
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Summary: Super.
Review: Love strategy? You'll love this game. If you have never played any of the Total War series, this would be a great start to begin. When you first start to play, give it a few. It may seem overwhelming with all the options you can be able to do. Practice. In no time you will rate this at the top of your list.
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Summary: why do people like this game?
Review: This is the biggest disappointment I've had in purchasing a game in years. This game has such high acclaims, but lives up to none. The graphics are poor, and the game play is dull. The real-time battle scenes reminded me of the Blue and the Gray (a great Civil War game 5 years ago!). The world conquering is slow and makes Civilization seem fast paced. I love the Civilivation games, I love real time strategy games, I love historical things, but I hated this game.
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Summary: A Superb Game
Review: This game is a great game. First of all it gives you the ability to biuld an empire with 12 different factions. Second of all it allows for real time stratagy in 3d battles. You almost feel like your playing chess when you try to out manuver someone. The battles allow more strategy than in any other game. The game also allows you to execute or ransom prisoners which I've never seen befor in a medievil game. And the main game is similar to Civilization with battles better than Age of Empires. If ypu like a pure strategy game, this ones for you.
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Summary: Two fair sub-games make for one good game.
Review: This game consists of two games. First there is the 2-d turn-based strategy part which is somewhat like Civilization 1 where you move armies from one region to another, develop technology, build things, train troops, manage money, deal with other factions (countries), and use spies, inquisitors and the like. The other game is an impressive 3-d battle game often featuring over 1000 figures where battles started in the turn based game are resolved. Those battles a very cool for a while. I have not played the multiplayer game (which I think is just a battle).
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Summary: awesome and highly addictive game
Review: this game is one of the best strategy games ever, it has the same idea of risk, map of europe and northern africa divided into countries and you have to conquer all of the map. the best thing i found in the game is that it let you know why other leaders faild to conquer the world, at some point in the game when you are so strong and in the peak of your achievements. things start to go wrong and revolts starts to appear in different places, this thing sometimes gets pain in the ... but, to conquer the world you should advance to other countries slowly and plain all your moves make sure to build all the things that can increase your income. i think it is impossible to coquer the world in the expert level. as you will see that it is an achievement just to survive.two negative points i had about this game are: first the tutorial is almost nothing, there are many things that you have to figure out yourself wich might be considered a good point two. the second is when you run battles yourself it is bad because it takes a lot of time and the out come is always worse then when you let it go automatically.
anyways this game is absolutly worth the money.
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Summary: Incredible game!
Review: This is certainly an extraordinary game. All possibilities it offers really keep you concentrated on it. You must think on who you should marry princesses with, to which generals you confer honors, what facilities to build and where and when to do it, who you should ally with, who you should fight first and the chances you may be involved in a multiple front war, how many forces one should train, the opportunity of hiring mercenaries, your relations with the Catholic Church and so on. This is a must have game for people who already know about history as well fot those who want to learn in a fun way, but also those who don't have such interests will surely enjoy it. This game is worth the price. Go on and buy it!
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Summary: Medieval Total Frustration
Review: For the first few weeks I loved the game, though I was disappointed by the lack of certain refinements I took for granted in the Shogun version. Unlike Shogun the game lacks cinematics for events like assasination, the death of a King etc...These were very well crafted features in Shogun. I would at least have expected some fanfare when certain tasks were accomplished such as conquering the Holy Land but no such luck. Even at the end of the game when the whole map is at your command we are treated to a mere mediocre graphic of a King sittimg on a throne with ambassadors milling about humbly. Luckily the game does feature great maps and battle scapes. Unfortunately the game does not have any reliability when deciding upon weather during campaign as you may decide to fight on a "fine" day only to discover yourself in a torrential downpour.This really buggers up a lot of the subtleties of strategy. Likewise maps which aught to display lowland vistas will instead reveal a river crossing which really buggers up the fine subtleties of strategy. But nonetheless the game does provide entertaining battles to make up for these annoyances. Unfortunately the annoyances will begin to mount on you after a while and spoil what should be masterful game. The variety on units and their special skills does make the game more interesting. It also makes the game more confusing. Basic rules such as spearmen beat cavalry, cavarly beat archers, archers beat spearmen just dont apply. Figuring out which special units defeat which special units can be utterly frustrating.The computer knows these odds and will engage you where it has the upper hand and defeat will become a frequent visitor. The English longbowman should be able annihilate any unit in fair weather but that just won't happen. I have witnessed 160 longbowmen firing until their ammo was depleted at point blank reange into an enemy unit without so much as dropping half of them.So the basic rules from my experience are haphazardly applied (I have been playing for several months so its not like I just haven't clued in yet). But by far the most annoying thing is generating income and building technologies. Income is very stingy and trade does little to boost it. This was a major flaw in Shogun but is even more tasking here. Technologies, given the tough financing, are extremely expensive and take an eternity to build (20 years for a citadel may be historically accurate but they also built other things in conjunction not queued up. We'd still be waiting for the first steamship if that was the case). Given that the game is on a fixed timeline the technology tree takes as long to complete as does a real tree to grow. This game is very closely modelled on Europa Universalis II ( which lacks in game cinematics and a combat simmulator). What annoyed me about that game is also prevalent here, the constant risk of revolt. If its not bad enough that you have to deal with threats from without you must also guard from internal revolts. This is more easily said than done. Despite building monestaries, palaces, grand inquisitors, spies etc... the risk of revolt just never seems to go away. If this doesn't freak you out then the knowledge that one or several of your generals will turn traitor and steal half your kingdom will. I think this feature is over done. All in all the game is entertaining just learn to put it away when the stress begins to build and you will enjoy it much longer. I destroyed mine.
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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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