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Not as good as they say!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Personally I think they did a better job on the first one(Shogun: Total War). Medieval: Total War gets very boring after a few days of playing it. You can't win. Anytime you get about half of the provences the factions start coming back. This is so unreal. When did the heir of a kingdom come back, start an uprising, and with far more supior troops. I was disappointed. All the promo's got me to get the game as soon as possible. It wasn't worth the forty dollars plus tax I payed for it. There is however some high points to this game. The graphics are great. I also love the wide variety of different troops and ships. The subterfuge is great too. What good is it to marry off your daughter to a kingdom to ensure an alliance if you have to fight them eventually anyway though. Shogun is a far better game!

Best Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Total War series is the best strategy & tactics engine ever made. This is the top of the line. If you liked Empire Earth, Lords of the Realm, etc.; you DON'T want to miss this. You may be able to find it at a substantial discount at a used store (but you won't ever find my copy there).

Medieval Total War: Best Battle Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has all other battle games beat hands down. After more than a year, we still play it regularly. The strategy of building and earning money is not so difficult as to be impossible and the battles are realistic and enjoyable. Highly recommend this game.

Get Ready to Immerse!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played the tutorial and was baffled at the graphics. When I went to the campaign battles, it got even more tense. Unless you are docked with a schedule, get this game because your enemies aren't just going to let you walk in and take their territory, not to mention the fact that your ranks have to be strong. I recently switched from consoles to PC's and this game I found to be top of the line. Although some may dispute, you won't be looking for the clerk to get your money back. Just have a consideralbly medium to fast processor (950Mhz or higher). Oh, and you can learn history in the process.

A Superb Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great game. First of all it gives you the ability to biuld an empire with 12 different factions. Second of all it allows for real time stratagy in 3d battles. You almost feel like your playing chess when you try to out manuver someone. The battles allow more strategy than in any other game. The game also allows you to execute or ransom prisoners which I've never seen befor in a medievil game. And the main game is similar to Civilization with battles better than Age of Empires. If ypu like a pure strategy game, this ones for you.

I'm sorry sir, are you trying to use this game on a laptop ?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: January 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

No laptop support, no warning about lack of laptop support, no willingness to commit to a patch.

There is something incredibly ridiculous about a product whose 3D, multi-view complex battle engine works just fine but crashes on the relatively low-tech campaign map. The less than helpful Activision techies tried to blame it on a lack of my video cards DirectX 8.1 support (I'm sure that news to the ATI folks not to mention the rest of the laptop manufacturing world). I found this assertion surprising given the host of other DX required games I run without issue.

To sum it up, looks like the game has great potential if the CA and Activision staff would commit to getting off their posterior ends and debug it.

Video card problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: September 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I really loved the Shogun games, and Medieval looks like it could be a major time sucker. However, I'm running a 2-year-old Windows 98 machine with an integrated Intel video card, and this game won't run on it, even though every other game I own works fine, including recent graphics-heavy titles like Freedom Force ...

Longbowmen

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

WOw more can I say. You get to use longbowmen in battle.

Medieval Total War is one of the most realistic high tactical games ever. Other games use individual people on a battlefield. In MTW, you get to use armies and regiments in formation which you can coordinate as a whole. The detail is incredible.

However, the strategic element is a little disappointing. Apart from a tedious click job of emissaries and princesses. You can't bargin/threaten with your allies and enemies. You should at least be able to trade territories and help to coordinate trade or start new trading routes. However, in this game, if you are too successful everyone hates you and refuses to ally or partner with you. <...just like today?>

A worthy successor to Shogun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Medieval Total War is that rarest of accomplishments: a sequel which manages to improve on a great original. They kept most of what was right about Shogun and fixed most of what was wrong with it. The tactical game, which was already splendid, has been kept almost intact except for replacing the unit types with troops appropriate to medieval Europe. But the strategic game, which was rather thin in Shogun, has been expanded by orders of magnitude and is now a considerable challenge in its own right. This is not an easy game and won't appeal to most players who just want elaborate graphics, but fans of serious strategy games will find a lot to like here.

Unstable code and non-existant support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Could be an interesting game. Only problem is I can't get through an entire game without crashing my Windows XP system. Tried to get a patch from the Creative Assembly site but the link does not work and several emails to Creative Assembly have gotten no response.

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