Advantages: Can be played over and over again, endless strategy
Disadvantages: Addictive

...Medieval Total war is the second game in the Total War series from The Creative Assembly, which includes Shogun: Total War and Rome: Total War. Medieval Total War is a turn based computer strategy game where the player builds their own empire through conquest, bribery and civil war. The game is played across medieval Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Game play is both strategic and tactical, with more strategy needed on the turn based side of the game where you must build your empire on a province by province level. The tactical side of this game involves varying military units with different capabilities fighting head to head against each other on a real time tactical map. Battles can be played alone (in random or user-defined conditions, as part of historical scenarios, or in multiplayer), or as part of the campaign... Read review

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Advantages: Epic Battles, at times magnificent
Disadvantages: Questionable graphics, weak sound, battles become similar

...When released Shogun “Total War” was a title dubbed as groundbreaking, a quality that is still apparent to this day. No other series of games gives you the chance to command massive armies in tactical combat and there is an epic feel as you ply your mighty warriors (or puny warriors) against the best the game can throw at you. However, in reality Total War does not quite fulfil its potential, though it comes very close. In terms of visuals the game is still impressive despite beginning to look dated. The battlefields are large, implying infinite tactical possibilities and entertaining encounters. Unfortunately the use of sprites as units is not so effective, slightly detracting from the feeling of being inside a real life battle. In all, although a game is never defined by graphics, when it was released Shogun’s... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent addictive game
Disadvantages: Some new aditions useless

...After becoming totally adicted to this series back with the original 'Medieval Total War' (MTW), and only feeding this love with 'Rome Total War' (RTW) the run up to Christmas and this game was a frustrating time for me, although I can now say it was well worth it. The game follows the style and standards set by the earlier games. You are given control of a faction living within the time period and the long term aim is to expand your borders and become the dominant power in the world. The methods of achieving this vary from faction to faction and player to player and this is what makes the game so interesting. Primarily this is a War game. You expand your settlements and upgrade them with new buildings which give you access to new and more powerful units. At the same time you develop other buildings to increase trade or tax... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic graphics and gameplay
Disadvantages: High specs needed and a fair ammount of bugs

...Here it is the latest installment in the total war series, prequeled by Rome, Medieval 1, and Shogun Total war. All are great games, but if you wanted something more, then with Medieval 2 you will get it! To start with, this game is a tactical strategy game based in the medieval period. It is highly addictive and you can become easily engrossed in the faction you play with. Of these there are: England Holy Roman Empire France Republic of Venice Spain The following can be unlocked: Egypt, Byzantine Empire, Moors, Scotland, Denmark, Portugal, Poland, Milan, Sicily, Russia, Hungary, and the Turks Each start with realistic atttributes at the beginning of the game, which by the way, spans a very long period in history, right up till the discovery of South America. This of course creates a very epic game... Read review

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Advantages: Grand Strategic facet/ Fantastic huge 3D battles.
Disadvantages: Large system requirements. Very Similar to Rome: Total War

...Similar to Rome: Total War and the original Medieval Total War. This game is very good, taking many of the innovative and successful ideas employed in the Rome: Total War series and putting them into a medieval format. Great improvements in realism, with multiple unit per turn production, and a realistic system of mercenary hire. Strategically it is very similar to Rome, although options for Crusades and Jihads are included, along with special units (an adaption of the horde idea in the Rome: Barbarian Invasion expansion). The battles are enormously impressive. Uniquely modelled 3D units, individually animated populate the battlefield, along with towns and castles, weather conditions, and siege machines. Looks are very realistic and units even dress differently in different weather conditions. There is the option for custom... Read review

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Advantages: Great gameplay, huge diversity, difficult, lasts a long time
Disadvantages: no short game, units too similiar, two serial codes for multiplayer

...This game is one of my favourite games of all time. There's three games that i play constantly - Neverwinter nights, unreal tournament (see my review on that as well) and this. There is so much to do, so many styles of play, so many hidden suprises and excellent battle grounds. I prefer medieval total war even to the latest version of this game - Rome Total War. GRAPHICS Great! you can have them pixel perfect or you can have them run on a rubbish computer, like mine for instance. I'm not sure what the minimum requirments are, but i have 256mb ram and a 32mb graphics card, complimented by a 1.19ghz processor, and even when you fighting a massive battle, there's no pauses or jerkiness. That is all about the fact that they run on a fairly low powered computer, os your probably thinking that the graphics are rubbish, but they're not... Read review

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Advantages: Great gameplay, You'd not get bored of this game in a hurry
Disadvantages: You need a good PC with 600MB(or 500MB for minimal!)

...Shogun Total War is an excellent game to buy. Costing only £30 for an almost just out game, I had to go and get it. It is an amazing site when you see your army you have spent seasons building it up, finally marching across the battlefield against another huge army, commanded by a fellow Daimyo. The battles are the most exciting aspect of Shogun Total War, but during the rest of the game(On the map of Japan, where you move your forces, command spies and order Ninja's to do your bidding, there are some excellent videos. Like when you want to kill the general of an opposing army, to reduce their morale, you can see your ninja doing this if you wish. You also choose one of the seven clans who were in Japan at the time around 1530, and then you try to become Shogun, literally of all Japan!... Read review

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Advantages: Immense graphics and gameplay
Disadvantages: Requires a very fast computer

...The first game in the total war series brought a new age to strategy gaming. Shogun total war brought a new level of strategy gaming to the computer world. The graphics were shoddy and the game play was full of glitches but none the less it showed the world the true capability of computer programmers. Several years later, and after thousands of technilogical advances, the total war team bring us this new far improved world. Medieval Total War 2 focuses on the european medieval world. An age full of war, fear and destruction. The likes of which have never been seen in a game. The game provides real insight into the medieval world with its astonishing graphics and attention to detail. The units are intelligent and respond well to orders in a sensible fasion, unlike some earlier games. The UI players are far more tactically adept... Read review

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Advantages: Attention to detail, graphics, every battle is unique and better than the last
Disadvantages: could have more detail in seige warfare

...Rome Total War thank you for taking Hello and the time to read my first review, I am new here and as this is my first review I'm sure I will get better over time This review is about a PC game called Rome total war as you may of seen by the title, this is more of a tactical game than a killing game because you order your troops to go to specific places the age certificate on this game is a 12. I'm going to stop giving you the intro now and you can carry on reading the rest of the review…. Pc requirements English version of Microsoft windows 98SE and above *Pentium 3 1.0GHz (1000Mhz) processor or higher *256mb ram * 8times speed CD-Rom drive (1200kb/sec sustained transfer rate)and latest drivers * 2.9gb of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 500mb for windows swap file) *100%directX 9.0b-compatible 16-bit sound card... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant Gameplay Graphics also good
Disadvantages: Campaign isn't very good

...From the makers of the award winning Shogun: Total War. System Requirements 3D Hardware Accelerator Card required - 100% DirectX 8.1 compatable 16MB video card and drivers Pentium II 350 or Athlon processor or higher English version of Microsoft Windows 98/2000/ME/XP 128MB of RAM Quad speed CD-ROM drive (600 K/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers 1.7 GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 200MB for Windows swap file) 100% DirectX 8.1 compatable 16 bit sound card and drivers 100% DirectX 8.1 compatable 16MB video card and drivers 100% Windows 98/2000/ME/XP compatable mouse, keyboard and drivers DirectX 8.1 (included) Required for Multiplayer Pentium III 750 or Athlon processor or higher Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported Internet play requires 28.8 kbps (or faster) modem and drivers LAN... Read review

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