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| From: Sega
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £12.99
You Save: £17.00 (57%)
New (9) Used (5) from £12.00
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 513
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: historical-strategy-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.1
EAN: 5060138434660
ASIN: B0012BFK0G
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New - SAMEDAY DESPATCH - Insured Delivery and 12 months Warranty
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great game + 4 campaigns May 16, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
M2TW is a great game with many new nice touches. For instance you can use your unmarried princesses on the field and game features short films with action sequences.
The game play and graphics are also great. However the graphics engine is demanding and you need a powerful computer in order to make the battles work perfectly. But even if you can't play them it is probably still worth buying the game.
As far as the expansion pack I only played the Americas campaign. This campaign is different from the main game. It contains some small bugs and some faction could perhaps have had more different building types; especially since cities like Tenochtitlan in reality where huge. My guess is that the developers didn't have time to perfect all minor details in the 4 campaigns. But there are 3 more campaigns to play.
The overall score is 5, because the main game is just superb and because you get 4 campaigns in the expansion pack.
Hmmm do i need Medieval No. 1 first to play? May 21, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Hi, this game is total maddness, one of the best tactical games ever and i loved it, i played it with a friend in france... he had to change settigns to french for me to use but was good.
BUT b4 i buy this awsom game, do i need Medieval Total War I to install the new II expansion to play it? (i havent got any total war games exept for rome)
A Great Game August 1, 2008
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.
best strategy game every produced August 2, 2008
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.
Two steps forward, two steps back... September 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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