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Video Games : Medieval II: Total War - Gold Edition (PC DVD) .
Rating: 
- This game has moronic DRM protection.
Watch out with this game. It has SecuROM DRM protection that detects programs that you don't even have installed.
To get around the DRM error message you may get right click the Disk Drive in My Computer choose "Explore" and run the "Setup.exe" file from there.
Rating:
- Flawless
I thought they would be hard-pressed to even get close to the coat tails of Rome: Total War but this game is so flawless in it's design and execution that it far exceeds any doubts one might of had. If this game had been around during the time of Spartacus I very much doubt he would of got much done. He's be too busy trying to quash that annoying band of Spanish rebels with his trusted English longbowmen. Or maybe he may of had some trouble with the Mongols invading from the east leavinng him no choice but to pull his army out of Persia and defiantly stand firm, shielding the borders of Western Europe from Eastern rule.
This game will have you up for hours. Forget food, water or showers, you'll be completely immersed in domination of the New World.
Make sure you can play this before you buy it though. Recommended specs are 2.4 Ghz, 1 GB ram, Gefore 7300 video card and 5 GB of disk space.
Rating: - Two steps forward, two steps back...
This compliation brings together Medieval total war 2 and the expansion 'Kingdoms'. It includes a thorough guide for each and if my experience is anything to go by then it loads and plays without flaws or fuss. This is very similar in looks and feel to Rome total war but this later incarnation is more sophisticated and complex.
Rome is fantastic, quite possibly the best pc game of this genre so far which means Medi 2 (this game) has its work cut out if it is going to impress. And impress it does. On a 1650*1080 screen the units look absolutely amazing with layers and layers of detail. When units come together to fight on the battle field the little choreographed sequences look realistic and are thoroughly involving.
Cities and castles too look really amazing with all the walls and towers you could ever wish for. This detail translates equally well on to the campaign map where you now have the ability to zoom in and out of the action according to taste (Rome had a fixed camera viewpoint).
When cannons fire (over an increased distance) the earth shakes and caste walls are torn down...charge!!!
So is it a great game and is this version value for money. The answers are yes and yes. I have been playing the Mayans in south america and my jaguar warriors have been making short work of the pompous technological spanish...who needs guns, not us!!! The expansions in Kingdoms appear to be well thought out and add some diversity to what was already an amazing game.
However i have some criticicms that will not go away. For one, units now have the ability to ignore your orders as they please, so i now have to run around the battlefield like an old hen re-issueing ordrs to charge or engage. Tis is tiresome and detracts from the fun. it makes battles quite a bit more labour intensive without any increase in fun. At times when defending of engaging a settlement units get confused and start running around like headless chicken, the odd unit seemingly doing anything but obey the orders you just issued. They get stuck, confused and then just as likely mullered.
My biggest criticism concerns the campaign map where the movement of units has been lets say s-l-o-w-e-d- down. Click on a merchant and click where you want him to go. Then go off and make a cup of tea. With fresh tea in hand, as you are sitting back down your merchant is just coming to a halt. So you get frustrated click on the space bar and everything zooms around the map. This is silly, poor and needless. In Rome you have about 550 turns to complete the main campaign, in Medi 2 you now have just 225 so you really have to get your skates on. No summer and winter turns as in Rome (and that worked so well) in stead each turn covers about two years. Sixhundred turns at 2 per year would have been much better and it seems that the slow speed of characters moving around the map serves no other purpose than to hide how short the main campaign is and how few battle will be fought.
In conclusion this is an excellent game but my concerns are that the things that worked so well in Rome and were far from broke have been changed here for no gain. The game looks fantastic but it is alot less fun and as i have gone back to Rome i guess i have to say that for me Rome is the better game.
Rating: - best strategy game every produced
I do not think any words will do justice for this game, so I will keep this very short and to the point:
-Good things: everything really, graphics are superb, the strategy itself, the battles are just the best thing i have ever seen on a pc screen, extremely addictive game, i spent almost 9 hours on it when I first installed it, and the only thing that kept me from going on was having to go to work. Very enjoyable to play, and unlike other strategy games where you spend lots of time gathering resources then you lose in 10 seconds, this is something a lot more thought provoking, and needs some real skills.
Bad points: you need a very good PC to play this game, and a large amount of Rams, the more the better.
- Caused my PC to crash and freeze a couple of times (running on 1 Gig Ram)
This is by far the best, most enjoyable and addictive game in the market so far, and much better than the previous editions, cannot wait to get the new one coming soon. Get it now, but be warned, this will take your life away.
Rating: - A Great Game
I found this game to be the best in it's genre. It allows players to be one of many factions from the Grasslands of the English empire to the desserts of the Turkish. The battles immerse you in a almost life like battle field were the many different units (such as elephants) engage in combat.
One of the best PC games out.
A must buy.
- This game has moronic DRM protection.Watch out with this game. It has SecuROM DRM protection that detects programs that you don't even have installed.
To get around the DRM error message you may get right click the Disk Drive in My Computer choose "Explore" and run the "Setup.exe" file from there.
Rating:
- FlawlessI thought they would be hard-pressed to even get close to the coat tails of Rome: Total War but this game is so flawless in it's design and execution that it far exceeds any doubts one might of had. If this game had been around during the time of Spartacus I very much doubt he would of got much done. He's be too busy trying to quash that annoying band of Spanish rebels with his trusted English longbowmen. Or maybe he may of had some trouble with the Mongols invading from the east leavinng him no choice but to pull his army out of Persia and defiantly stand firm, shielding the borders of Western Europe from Eastern rule.
This game will have you up for hours. Forget food, water or showers, you'll be completely immersed in domination of the New World.
Make sure you can play this before you buy it though. Recommended specs are 2.4 Ghz, 1 GB ram, Gefore 7300 video card and 5 GB of disk space.
Rating:
- Two steps forward, two steps back...This compliation brings together Medieval total war 2 and the expansion 'Kingdoms'. It includes a thorough guide for each and if my experience is anything to go by then it loads and plays without flaws or fuss. This is very similar in looks and feel to Rome total war but this later incarnation is more sophisticated and complex.
Rome is fantastic, quite possibly the best pc game of this genre so far which means Medi 2 (this game) has its work cut out if it is going to impress. And impress it does. On a 1650*1080 screen the units look absolutely amazing with layers and layers of detail. When units come together to fight on the battle field the little choreographed sequences look realistic and are thoroughly involving.
Cities and castles too look really amazing with all the walls and towers you could ever wish for. This detail translates equally well on to the campaign map where you now have the ability to zoom in and out of the action according to taste (Rome had a fixed camera viewpoint).
When cannons fire (over an increased distance) the earth shakes and caste walls are torn down...charge!!!
So is it a great game and is this version value for money. The answers are yes and yes. I have been playing the Mayans in south america and my jaguar warriors have been making short work of the pompous technological spanish...who needs guns, not us!!! The expansions in Kingdoms appear to be well thought out and add some diversity to what was already an amazing game.
However i have some criticicms that will not go away. For one, units now have the ability to ignore your orders as they please, so i now have to run around the battlefield like an old hen re-issueing ordrs to charge or engage. Tis is tiresome and detracts from the fun. it makes battles quite a bit more labour intensive without any increase in fun. At times when defending of engaging a settlement units get confused and start running around like headless chicken, the odd unit seemingly doing anything but obey the orders you just issued. They get stuck, confused and then just as likely mullered.
My biggest criticism concerns the campaign map where the movement of units has been lets say s-l-o-w-e-d- down. Click on a merchant and click where you want him to go. Then go off and make a cup of tea. With fresh tea in hand, as you are sitting back down your merchant is just coming to a halt. So you get frustrated click on the space bar and everything zooms around the map. This is silly, poor and needless. In Rome you have about 550 turns to complete the main campaign, in Medi 2 you now have just 225 so you really have to get your skates on. No summer and winter turns as in Rome (and that worked so well) in stead each turn covers about two years. Sixhundred turns at 2 per year would have been much better and it seems that the slow speed of characters moving around the map serves no other purpose than to hide how short the main campaign is and how few battle will be fought.
In conclusion this is an excellent game but my concerns are that the things that worked so well in Rome and were far from broke have been changed here for no gain. The game looks fantastic but it is alot less fun and as i have gone back to Rome i guess i have to say that for me Rome is the better game.
Rating:
- best strategy game every producedI do not think any words will do justice for this game, so I will keep this very short and to the point:
-Good things: everything really, graphics are superb, the strategy itself, the battles are just the best thing i have ever seen on a pc screen, extremely addictive game, i spent almost 9 hours on it when I first installed it, and the only thing that kept me from going on was having to go to work. Very enjoyable to play, and unlike other strategy games where you spend lots of time gathering resources then you lose in 10 seconds, this is something a lot more thought provoking, and needs some real skills.
Bad points: you need a very good PC to play this game, and a large amount of Rams, the more the better.
- Caused my PC to crash and freeze a couple of times (running on 1 Gig Ram)
This is by far the best, most enjoyable and addictive game in the market so far, and much better than the previous editions, cannot wait to get the new one coming soon. Get it now, but be warned, this will take your life away.
Rating:
- A Great GameI found this game to be the best in it's genre. It allows players to be one of many factions from the Grasslands of the English empire to the desserts of the Turkish. The battles immerse you in a almost life like battle field were the many different units (such as elephants) engage in combat.
One of the best PC games out.
A must buy.
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