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Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: March 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Medievil was a really cool game. Even my mom liked it! This game is so cool. If you have the money for this game, you should get it.

Back From the Dead...again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: May 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sir Daniel Fortesque is back, after 500 years of peaceful slumber. The game plays much like the first one, with some cool new moves such as the dan-hand where you take your skull off and place it in you hand and use it to see around corners, down holes and over ledges. The puzzles seem harder this time around, but not too hard where you get frustrated, and the overall feel of the game is very in tune to the more contemporary setting. If you played the first one and enjoyed it, or are a die hard Sir Dan Fan, this game does not disappoint. Long Live Sir Dan!

Deeply disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: May 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved the original Medievil, so I was really looking forward to the sequel. The one star I gave it was for the Danhand ability. Other than that I found it VERY frustrating. Jumping in this game was just miserable. The jumps on this one had to be lined up to be EXACTLY PERFECT, and Dan doesn't jump as well on the trampolines as he did on the cargo nets in the first game. Also the camera angles constantly change on you, which may have been the most annoying thing. Once you finish a level, you can go back, BUT the life fountain is gone. So if you need to build up life, forget it! Of course, you don't start out with Danhand, so to go back and use it you have to finish the level again without any fountain of rejuvenation. You can use the cheat menu to get life, but it stinks that they would make you resort to that to replenish yourself. There should ALWAYS be a legitimate way to do that in a game. They decided to make the bosses harder as well, which got frustrating especially in light of the rejuvenation situation. The only time I really enjoyed it was with the cheats on, as that was the only way it felt a bit more like playing. I think this game had tons of potential (especially the freashow and the costume changes and the girlfriend), but instead of trying to make it even more fun than the original, they just tried to make it harder. I liked being able to just play with the first one without getting stuck in the levels. That kind of gameplay really helps you appreciate the humor in the game. Also, they only did the opening and closing cut scenes in full animation. The others were all done in game graphics, whereas the original treated you to full animation several times when you entered new areas. Pretty cheap.

Medievil 2 is awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In Medievil you get a lot of weapons. In Medievil 2 you get a ton of weapons. My favorite gun is the Gatiling Gun (high-power machine gun), my favorite sword is the Magic Sword. You can also get bombs. It's also a lot tougher to beat Medievil 2 than Medievil. They are both great games.

Keeps getting better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

excellent gaming experience. well worth the money.

thanks

Buy the original.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 28 / 31
Date: May 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved MediEvil. It was an original concept with alot of funbonuses. MediEvil II was NOT worth the $.

Daniel Fortesque isawakened for a second time by a wacky doctor so that he can save the Victorian-era world from an evil industrialist who has found the spell pages from the original game. Along the way Dan finds Kyia, a long dead Egyptian cortesan. Together, these three fight evil.

There were several problems with the new game. One is Dan's character. Although he's basically the same, there aren't the endearing little things about him we came to love in the first game.

Second is the bad guy, who is rarely interactive with Dan and never developed very well. Design-wise, you can return to levels, but can't replenish life as you could in game 1. This becomes annoying toward the end when the levels become increasingly difficult. Of course, all that difficulty becomes anti-climactic at the end when the final "bad guy" is easy to defeat.

The worst thing about the whole experience, though, is the camera angle. It's constantly switching randomly, making jumps sometimes nearly impossible. And there are several places where the camera-angle switch will make you stuck irreperably.

All-in-all, I was not happy with the quality. Developers and game-designers really have to learn to work out the bugs of a game before they release it, even if it's a guarenteed seller like this one. I won't buy Medievil 3, that's for sure.

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game, and have already beaten the first MediEvil and loved it. This one is tougher and a bit harder to beat, and way more challenging but still a lot of fun. Sir Dan has some great new moves including the Dan Hand, and some cool additional weapons in his arsenal.

A GREAT GAME IF YOU DON'T HAVE A MOD CHIP

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The original MidEvil was a great game, and MidEvil II was just as good. The additions of features such as the Danhand and Dankerstein was a welcomed addition. However, if you wanted to power back up you was not allowed to go back to previous level's life fountain; they were all dried up. Also if you had a Mod Chip installed in your system, MidEvil II was not allow you to finish.

Medievil II falls short...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: May 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am probably the biggest MediEvil fan out there. The game has so many things going for it. It is funny, action-packed, and scary with beautiful graphics and music! It is a perfect game because it is fun. You can get lost in it for hours. Now maybe I'm biased because I'm an autumn baby, so the October/Halloween feeling is a big reason I love it...but any way you look at it, it's a solid game.

When I found out they were making a MediEvil 2, I practically strangled my poor little brother in excitement. I ran out and bought it the first day it came out. Unfortunetly, to put it simply, it's not as good as it's predescessor. Frankly, the sequel could have far surpassed the original with all of it's new ideas...but, what makes it weaker is the fact that they decided to axe out a lot of what made the first one so great! So, without me rambling on in this review, I'm just going to simply seperate it into the good and the bad.

The Bad: -This time around they've decided that once the health stream is tapped...it's tapped forever. There is no way now to go back and get your health filled up. I never, ever, ever cheat! This is the first time i did. Basically, you have no choice if you want to beat the game. Only use it to refill health though.

-They've also nixed the cinematics. The ones they have, they made them using the game graphics. I sorely missed the old ones from the first. We only get one in the beginning and end. The first one is good...the last one leaves us hanging. It didn't tie up any ends and it didn't make any sense(maybe it'll be explained in 3....Here's hoping! )

-The only problem with 1 was that it was too short. The ONLY one. It had 22 levels. ......And for some reason, Medievil 2 only recieved 15.

-The futuristic space ship in this one was never explained. This time around, we're in London in 1886 and there are more advancements in technology since the medieval days. But this is above and beyond even the time machines. (By the way, for 3, let's not get any more futuristic).

-Dankenstein was an awesome idea! But it fell flat. It didn't feel like you were a frankenstein creation. The boxing game came from NOWHERE!

-A lot of times before or after a level, music will be cued and then abruptly stop. It seems like a glitch in the game that makes you wonder if you're missing something. Cinematics anyone?

-I wish all the levels were like Kensington, Wolfrum Hall, White Chapel, and the last.

The Good: -I'm running out of space, so i'll try and sum this up quickly. Overall, there are a ton of good points. Dan-hand, the mummified love interest, the professor, winston, the spiv, double weapons, new enemies & difficulty, and new options were great additions! As were some of the finest levels. Unfortunetly, the bad always seems to outweigh the good in all people's minds. So, to sum it up, MediEvil II is a strong game. What makes it weak is its lack of old features. It almost feels like the team behind the game made it as just an extent off of the old one instead of making a completely new game w/some old ideas. I know I'm leaving something out, but I assure to anyone, the game is awesome, and I truly hope Sir Dan will be around for a long time.

Good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Although medieval 2 is a good game and well worth your money, It could have been better. It lost some original features like being able to return to prvious levels and use the health resivours. I heard thier would be more levels than the original but, unfortinutly their were less. The puzzles could also have been harder. The puzzles in the first one had me stumped for days sometimes, But I usually can figure out the ones in the second one in at most a day. Besides these flaws the game is wonderful and well worth your money.

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