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Delivered as expected

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: January 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game for my grandson. He has played them them all and is an experienced gamer. He thinks the game is teriffic. Remember that
you will need to make sure your system can handle the graphics or you will
not get the total experience.

AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Medieval 2 is a game that allows you to control some of the major factions in Medieval society. You wage war against enemies or win allies over with trade. You can buy and sell land or just conquer it using a massive army. It is very easy to learn as well.
One of the best things in the game are the Crusades. You can ask the Pope to call one. Once it is started however, you have to join it. SO BE CAREFUL! Medieval 2 is one of the best RTS games out there. If you are a fan of Rome Total War, this game is for you.

Medieval 2: Total Freeze

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This program freezes after only a few seconds of gameplay in the campaign mode, requiring a cold boot of the computer to regain control of the OS.
Here is my system specs:
XP Pro SP2 with all upgrades from the Microsoft website
AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core
GeForce 8500 with 512 MB RAM
3.3 GB system RAM
Realtek Audio integrated 7.1 sound card

For whatever reason it just doesnt work on this system. If you have a similar system, you might want to stay away from it.

Great ideas ruined by terrible glitches

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game could have been great. Even after the first patch though it remains too glitchy to enjoy. Go to the forums and see the list of glitches which still need to be fixed.
Forget about playing multiplayer with a friend too. The server is pitiful. You will not be able to join half the games that are up, so if you have a friend or relative who lives far away, and you want to play against them, you may be out of luck.

Great fun with a few quirks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I received this game for Christmas and I loaded it up immediately and started playing. I have played Rome TW and Barbarian Invasion and I found I could skip the Tutorial and begin game play, which I found to be great instead of wasting vast amounts of time on some silly Tutorial training which never really trains you well enough. The graphics are GREAT, especially the battle sequences, its like watching some big budget film. Building a medieval dynasty is great fun on the campaign map and the interaction with the Pope and the College of Cardinals added a wonderful dimension to the game. Even when I couldn't get my cardinals elected I was able to buy enough votes to get my allies cardinals elected to the Papacy and then ask for crusades against my enemies - to great fun and profit. Diplomacy is (usually) much better than Rome TW. Some of my allies stuck by me and others stabbed me in the back - just like any good machiavellian Prince would do. Trade worked well at first but I did get tired of trying to deal with some aspects of it but by that point I had solved most of my money issues anyway so it didn't seem to matter much. The campaign map can get cluttered, particularly in densely settled regions like Northern Italy where you will have dozens of Armies, Princesses, Diplomats, priests, cardinals...etc all hanging around but it gives you something to test your assassins on.

The game has some frustrating factors - I spent a good amount of time early on with NO money, having to scrape my florins together just to make a simple upgrade in one town. The AI will gang up on you - if you are the Holy Roman Empire - expect most of your neighbors to attack you at some point. Better explainations of building and units would really help. I enjoy game forums but you shouldn't have to learn all the nuances of the game in a forum. Most of the other complaints people seem to level at this game seem trivial to me in the face of really fun and enjoyable game play. I had no lagging on my pc. Best game I have played in a while (since Rome TW).

Online hastle

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has some AI issues that others have mentioned, (the computers willingness to let itself be slaughtered by archers, not attacking ect) but the game is fun. Unfortunately the problem I have run into is attempting to play against others online. I created a gamespy account, but I still cannot log in, and the game gives no hint as to why. Standard BS for on line gaming. Single player is great until you learn the tricks on how to defeat the crappy AI. Oh yea, just be prepared for the ridiculous inquisitoners that run around and slaughter your generals for no rhyme or reason, only solution is to save the game often and build assassins for the sole purpose to kill them when they come in your lands. They kill your best generals with ease!

Creative Assembly does it again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm at a point where I'll buy anything from Creative Assembly and their "Total War" line. Having been through Medieval I, and Rome, I waited patiently for Medieval II.

IMHO, the game doesn't differ significantly from Medieval I, however, there are some much need "tweaks". For example, a city won't revolt against you at the drop of a hat and explode in resistance. In Medieval I, I've had whole continents do this at once.

The role of the Pope isn't as overwhelming. In Med. I, if you didn't have the Pope's blessing, there was no end to the revolts.

A new supporting character, the merchant, has been introduced. I'm still trying to figure out how best to use him.

Assassin's aren't as lethal, that is, their success rate is relatively low.

Finally, there's a separation of City and Castle. The Castles are to recruit highly advanced soldiers, where Cities are for commerce.

All in all, a better product than Med. I and a certain pleasure to play. I can't honestly agree to buying Med. II if you have Med I.

great but slow

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was a majer leap foward from what I'm used to. the grapics are great and so is game play. after I got this I got Rome Total War and rome runs faster on my computer so I play it more but overall get it if you have the space.

Medieval II nothing new

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is Total War.

IMO, If you got Total War:Medieval I or Total War:Rome don't bother buying this game. Graphics same style of graphics, they had in Rome.

You have the same turn base movements with the same siege / town building options. Graphics, button layouts, combat, basic unit types, most town features and same AI on the battle field. Yeah really nothing going to make you go, WOW! All the total wars at this point are similar.

Differences: IMO the differences that are noticeable are not important anyways more town buildings, a few more buildings, different movies play, a few more different versions of units, more use of non-military units which is really makes the game more annoying like religion. Yeah you have to actually care about religion? If your conquering game you gobble up all the territory anyways with an army not with religious people.

Bad things: Now the designers make you manage not only your surrounding rivals but your religious rivals as well. So designers have added more religion into the game, they had some in Medieval I but not that much. Designers now give you more of a pain to play the game like a conquering game almost like AI that's a separate diplomatic game. So if your tired of fighting with the AI, you just make a huge army and end up slaughtering all religious nations and their people rather than deal with politics and religious differences.

Good things: It's exactly like Total War: Rome but add back in religion like Total War: Medieval I so you got very good solid game and one of only games that tries to join simulating battles of humans in the past and a building game like Civilization.

Missing: Castle design lacking, simpler controls on battle fields, need better graphics than 1990s for castles, lack of unique maps all cities are similar. It's always the exact same setup you got no differences in castles you don't get anything strange like a cliff, a giant wall, a different layout or anything different. The game like all previous versions of it has pathing issues especially noticable when taking over a city. Units go the wrong way to get to center of a city some units seem unresponsive in location or direction changes at times. Your units are too artificial they are setup too much like rock->paper->scissors meaning they all like cookie cutouts. Spearmen > horses > archers which is really annoying which should not really be the case all the time. Also they add a bunch of new unit types yet since they act the same way what's the point. An example in game you can hitting on spearmen from 4 sides 1 with horsemen 3 with other infantry you would kill them all with minimal casualities yet the AI dictates spearmen do same amount of damage to horsemen even when surrounded. Horsemen get tied up by spearmen even if your out of spear range and your moving away from them. Also your units are forced to always fight in same styles for enemies meaning one AI of town rebels which was created in one month fights the exact same way as AI general with 7 stars would that has been a professional army for over 10 years does. So a rebel leader in one turn that can move and position his conscript troops the exact same way a veteran general does is not realistic.

Absolutely Fabulous!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am running this with a GeForce 8600GT, 2GB of RAM and 3.2GHZ single core chip. When I first bought this I could not play it on Vista but a recent driver update from NVIDIA fixed the compatability issue. The graphics and performance are stunning. Besides the graphics the detail level of the campaign and battles are greatly improved from the previous Rome Total War game.

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