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This is da strategy game for anyone.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Medieval: Total War is super easy to learn. Gamers who are starting to be attracted to strategy or war games should begin here. The whole object of the game is to either dominate the world or stun the world with glorius achievements. The graphics don't compare to that of Rome: Total War's, but the gameplay is better. The Expansion Pack: Viking Invasion adds a Vikings Campaign, new civilazations along with new army units. Anyone will be thirsty to DOMINATE THE MEDEIVAL WORLD!

GREAT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is easily my favorite game of all time. I am a SERIOUS gamer, and this game brings something new to the table everytime you play it. If you are actually skilled enough to beat all the campaigns, it is fairly simple to create your own unique campaigns using the mods. There are NO LIMITS to this game. It is unreal.

historical warfare

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is the epitome of medieval war. There is Dark Age warfare and Middle Ages warfare. There are many things in this game that the avid medieval reader will recognize. If you want a mostly historically accurate game, I suggest this game for you. There is even the option to forgo commanding battles yourself and keep the game focused on the strategic level. I only have one problem with this game: the strategic portion is single-player only. That prevents this game from being the best strategy game I ever played. Of course, there's nothing more satisfying than outmaneuvering your friends on the battlefield and then mercilessly slaughtering their captured soliders with a voracious war cry just like your ancient ancestors and laughing at them!

Great upgrade for an already great game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Medieval Total War just gets better. You can play the game like always with access to more factions, or you can play just on the British Isles. Rampage and destroy with the Vikings. Control and unify with the Scots. It has all of the great game play that exists with the original with great additions. The best change is that you can organize your reserves as well as your original troops. Now if you're defending during a huge battle and you know that your archers will be out of ammo after the first few on slots, set up your first reserves to be archers. It allows greater depth of thought to large engagements. What a blast!

Only one complaint

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Since the excellentnessnessness of this game has been expounded upon, I have only one beef with the Battle Collection edition.

You get one game and one expansion pack (if you didn't read the product description). Without the expansion pack, there is an insanely unfair (but ludicrously fun) axe-wielding light cavalry available only to the Egyptians. It is nearly impossible for the Europeans to defeat them - until the advent of armored spearmen, that is. Using these six-legged terrors (two for the axeman, four for the horse, brainiacs) and a complex network of ships, it is possible for your men to enjoy a meal of baba ghanoush while visiting Sweden. So cool.....

You may notice that this is not, truthfully, what happened. I tell you that this does not, truthfully, matter. The game is a riot. If you think these units are unfair, just install the expansion pack and they go away. THAT, my friends, is my only complaint.

Oh, yeah, download the patch so that all of your generals don't die at the age of 50. Kinda stinks when that happens. Then again, a 170-year-old general is sort of anti-historical too.

Medieval total war says it all

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game. The graphics are not up to par with Imperial Glory or Code Name Panzers but that is high end.
Game Pros. are the numerous regions to control and the dozen or so empires or nations to rule. Large number of units to chose from and certain regions recruit special units. Large number of Battle modifiers: weather, moral of leader and troops plus type of terrain units are fighting in and a Good AI. The addon Viking Invasion is a good way to update the old MTW version. Game save options and special campaigns and battles.
Game Cons. are simple terrain and building graphics, unit graphics, treaties with opposing nations are to simple or lack dept. Trade routes are generalized as with marinetime warfare and marinetime trade.

Best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been an addict of real-time battle games since I first bought Command and Conquer. From Age of Empires to Starcraft, I've played them all and they were great fun. MTW makes them seem like kid's games. I'll never be completely happy with them again.

It's all fun - the turn based aspect being much like Civilization - but the battles are what makes it addictive. Battlefield strategy means everything, and even if you have superior troops, bad strategy can lose a battle for you. I can't even begin to list all of the factors that will sway a battle, but maybe if I recount one of my battles, it will give you some insight on how awesome this game is.

When a Crusade moves through one of your provinces, it's pretty destructive. At the very least, you will lose 25% of all of your troops in that province as they leave to join the Crusade. A lot of times, I think it's just a way for the offending faction to weaken you before attacking. MTW prompts you on whether or not to let a Crusade pass through your province. If you decline, the Crusade attacks you. And a crusader army can hold many more units than a normal army. They also fight with more vigor.

In my first game, the French wished to send a Crusade through one of my provinces, and I refused. My army in that province was about 500 troops, the Crusade army numbered over 4000. I saved my game and then started the battle. It didn't last long. Lined up toe to toe on an open field, they ran me over in no time. I loaded it up again, but this time, I tried something different. I lined half of my infantry up behind a large woods so that the French would have to attack through the woods. I put the other half in the woods, up a hill to the left. They were hidden (a very neat and useful feature). As the French approached the woods, they sensed something was wrong. Where before they simply attacked me, this time they hesitated. Worried that they would see my hidden troops, I charged with my unhidden footsoldiers, but then brought them back quickly before they engaged. The French fell for it. They charged into the woods after my troops. I let them come until they were halfway through and then hit them with the hidden troops in the middle of their column. It sent them into a panic. The front half of their army was still charging, but now they did not much outnumber my troops which they were chasing. I turned on them and engaged. That part of the battle was close. My hidden troops, however, destroyed the middle third of their army which was still trying to recover. The rear third, still out of the woods on the far side, wavered. At this moment, I bought my cavalry around the right side of the woods and into the left flank of the rear third. They routed. Now, with my hidden troops and my cavalry freed up, I brought them through the woods and into the rear of the front third of the French army which was just about to overcome my troops fighting there. Totally surrounding them, they were soon destroyed, including the General. After that, the rest of the French reserves were not too keen on fighting and were easy prey.

What other real-time battle game can you defeat enemy forces when you are outnumbered 8 to 1? I don't know of any. If you are a war buff, and you are not currently playing MTW, you are not having as much fun as you could be having!

One more thing. One of the things that makes the battles great in MTW is the terrain. Most battles happen in hilly areas and the elevation can be used to your advantage or be your downfall. I rushed out to buy Rome Total War, but was very disappointed as this aspect seemed to have disappeared in that game. Most battles seem to take place on large, open fields, and the terrain means little. IMO, MTW is much better. I wish they would make more expansion packs or just update it or something. I've been playing for over a year now and am just now finally starting to get tired of it. Too bad.

Classic installment of the total war series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: July 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is loads of fun despite not being equal in graphics to its recent predicesour(rome:total war). However, it has fewer bugs and the battles are still as much fun.

not bad for a little while

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: May 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

for the price it's worth buying. don't waste you money on the follow up Rome. game are supposed to get better not worse. If your bored at 3 am it's worth playing for a few hours.

I love this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: April 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this because you can mix Strategy and Combat Action.
You can play historical campaigns, historical battles, quick battles and custome campaigns.
I like all variety in this game. First try quick battles to get experience in combat and after maybe a historical battles. When you learn the basics i recommend you a custome campaign. You can reply many time and the game is always different.

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