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Great Game, Bad Price

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love this game and I would recommend it to anyone, but the price is awful. This is a great strategy game involving Medival Europe. It is historically accurate and very entertaining. However, I have found this game at other stores for much less. I would tell anyone to look around and find a better deal. DO NOT BUY IT HERE!

Tactical nice - strategic needs work

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love the tactical battle part of this game. Its is far better designed than the strategic component. The only issues I had with tactical battle part was the camera didnt control very intuitively, and getting unit facings correct was somewhat of a hassle. Also the AI tended to throw away the life of its general. Apart from that I think this is the best battle simulator Ive ever played.

The strategic section had three important flaws in my opinion.

1- No underlying story to engage the players interest.
2- Became tedious rather than engaging when your empire got large.
3- Random events occured not related to game play.

I think they should really address those issues going forward to make a really great game. In the middle to late game the style of play needs to change entirely which I dont think they did very well. During that period you have massive assets and its almost tedious hunting down and crushing the last of your opponents. At the same time you need to micro manage a LOT of provinces which is also tedious.

Id suggest once you have accumulated a certain amount of provinces that the game has the function so you can delegate control of some to a hand picked general. You would be able to define his overall strategy, but the AI would handle the details.

To make the last part of the game interesting all remaining factions should begin to ally together to stop your empire, allowing them to put up at least some worthwhile resistance.

i'm sure it would be great, too bad it won't install

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: September 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

P4 1.8 ghz, 256 ram, geforce2, win xp, basically a nice current pc and of course the only game i've been dying to get since shogun:tw doesn't crash or freeze up while playing: it locks up and terminates during the install. activision's space cadets aren't helping either (sorry guys, but i've done the scandisk, defrag, closed background apps and programs, updated drivers, et al.) so my rating for medieval:tw has to be -5 stars unless techsupport can do a 180 before i return this lemon.

It does not run

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: September 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I enormously enjoyed Shogun. Unluckily Medieval does not run (i.e. I cannot start a campaign). Furthermore Activision support told me that they are never going to support my PC (a Dell Latitude with 256 Mbyte of RAM). An advice: don't buy it if you are not sure that Activision supports your PC

oh yeah

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

all right first of all i have no idea why anybody would rate this game a 1 star. what do you mean it doesn't work on labtop? i have a one-year old labtop and it works great. and the freeze-ups? my god, if your gonna play a game get a real computer, not some [junky] apple. its gotta have some guts. i mean, this game couldn't be farther from bad. the immersion is so deep, so real. strategy wise, this is better than any other game i've seen. and don't tell me im not a serious gamer. ill make you eat those words online. so stop underrating this. "i'd really give it negative five, but..." shut up! you want a real game, this is the thing to get. ciao. peace:)

The game that never gets old and tired

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The sheer depth and breadth of this game simply blows all other games away. It seamlessly combines both real-time strategy with empire building, and the nuances of the game means that you will learn something new almost every time you play it.

If you like to become engrossed in your gaming then this is for you.

very fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

medieval total war is very fun. it's much more realistec than A.O.E2. One hit kills for archers, it rains,snows and even has sand storms. archers take time to fire and reload. There are many great things Medieval total war. I just named a few. But the graphics aren't the best it's more like 3-d but oh well. Guys still can't go on walls so i would have to minus a star on those two things. But apart from that i would recamend getting it. It's loads of fun and lasts a very long time!

Good Game, But Too Tedious

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I play this game at the strategic level (i.e., I let the computer fight the tactical battles). Played this way, the game is the kind I like. However, the people who produced this game need to put some more thought into managing the armies, navies, keeps, and countries. Essentially, it's a problem of status changes. For instance, each country has two build queues (infrastructure and units). When something from those queues finishes, the game pops up a notice during the End of Year (EOY) processing. However, those pop-ups are just that: you accept the message and off the game goes with more EOY stuff (and more messages). When you finally get around to being able to interact, you have no idea what's done and you have to check every country to figure out if you have a queue to fill. What the game needs is for you to go to those build queues from the pop-up message and set up the next item (or check that the remainder of the queued items are still what you want to build). Then the EOY process could continue to the next such message.

By military status changes, I mean when a unit impinges on your viewable space. For instance, if you've got naval units in a sea and an enemy plops a newly built ship right next to you, the game doesn't let you know. Ditto for land units. There are no little colored dots on the mini-map for you to see at a glance either. You have to manually scroll the main map across the whole of Europe and look for enemy units. This gets very tedious, very quickly.

For diplomacy, a country can go to war against you, and the first inkling you have of such a status change is that you're suddenly in battles. Also, there's no easy way to initiate diplomacy with a country. You have to find the foreign leader on the map (no little dots or anything shows where he is) and drop one of your emissaries on him to start things rolling. If that leader is in some are that you can't see troops in, then you're SOL.

Also, and this is a pretty big problem, trade via ships is very badly designed. Trade is mostly transparent. What you have to do is set up a chain of ships from one port to another (and all spaces in between). As long as an enemy hasn't sunk a ship (or is just sitting next to one of your ships (in wartime), everything's fine. But, if that chain gets broken, trade stops. I'm sorry. But, trade shouldn't work that way. It should be set up so that if you control the ports at both ends, then the ships will travel between them. Maybe they'll be intercepted en-route and sunk. That's fine. But, this chain-of-ships thing is silly.

There are other problems, but what they all add up to is an overly tedious game. With a little more thought, Activision could have had an excellent game here. However, as is, it's merely ok.

Good balance, worth buying.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game, with a good balance of stradegy and tactics. If you are simply interested in empire management, Medieval allows the player to automate battles so that you can concentrate more on tech developement, economic growth, and troop production, but you would be missing out on a very good games engine.
Battles are realisticly reproduced, with factors such as weather, terrain, and morale being important for victory. Some effort has also been made to be true to history, which leads to some empires having more advantage then others, but this works well as the game informs the player of extra difficulty of playing as a given country.
Great game for single player; only used the multiplayer (which only allows for battles) a few times, and am not a big fan (but I really enjoy empire building).

Great Mix

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought this game, I had already played the demo. I had been looking forward to this game's release previously from ads. The demo made it seem like an upgraded Age of Empires type, but I was wrong. The spectacular battle seens is just a part of the game.

The minute I saw the campaign, I thought of Warlords (remember that game). What the game is really about is tactics. I'm not just talking about battle tactics. I mean the real "generals' decision" tactics. Unlike Age of Empires, this game makes you think like you're a general in Medieval times.

What this game really is: a mix of Warlords with a twist of Age of Empires topped of with the latest engine, mass numbers, and spectacular tactics. Not much, really.

If you like a very strategical game, Medieval: Total War is right for you. If you like watching mass numbers just go at it, Medieval: Total War is right for you. If you like spectacular graphics (such as sandstorms, kicked-up dirt, and arrows blocking out the sun), this game is also right for you.

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