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Save you money and time, do not buy this game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 22
Date: September 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It should be noted to start with that calling this a game is inaccurate, games are suposed to be fun. There is very little enjoyment with this title.

First the good. The battles are good. The system for the real time battles is very well done. There is a reasonable challenge, but if you practice good tactics, you will succeed. You can get all of this in the demo, though, so do not waste your money. The battles get old fast.

Now the horrid, the Full Campaign. You are in control of one of a number of factions starting in the early, middle or late medieval period. The game bogs down in its complexity. You are also victim to the whims of the AI. The last game I played, and the last I will ever play as I am selling my copy, I was the Danes. I started with one aea and built it up to the east to around 8. I also built many ships for trade. In maybe five turns, one year per turn, I went from 50,000 florins to being in debt, I had already lost two of my provinces and with the Egyptians so strong I had no hope of surviving. I quit in frustration. i could not win! I had experienced this frustration as the Spanish, as the Germans, the Egyptians and as the Almohads (Nortwest Africa). It will take about 400 turns for the full campaign game. The game arbitrarily assigns bad events, to which I fell prey often.

To win you must at least conquesr 60% of Europe, the near east and North Africa. On the Total War bulletin board many people are bragging about beating the game on the most difficult setting. I am sorry, but that requires incredible luck, or the braggers are cheaters.

There is mind numbing detail and even if you read the manual and the separate Strategy Guide, there are still far too many unanswered questions.

As far as I can see, most of the tedium that ruins the game was intended. There are situations where the game indicates that you subjects are happy, but the next turn, you have a huge rebel army of the previously happy peasants. And, somehow the peasants are in huge numbers and the quality of the troops isridiculously strong.

I have been playing computer games for 20 years. Before that I played board games. I have a law degree and Mensa level intelligence.

I warn you all, do not buy this title unless you hate yourself, and are out of work. If you have the patience, you will eventually have enough luck that you can win a campaign occasionally.

Great but the Price is bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is great and really brings strategy games to a whole new level. It is an accurate depiction of Medieval strategy and is a game any strategy lover should buy. The only problem is price. You can find this game for [$$$] or [$$$] online ...

Don't buy it if you want to run it on a laptop

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 25
Date: October 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Like the rest of these reviews mention, make sure you have a serious machine before you buy this.

Looked great and assumed because Shogun ran on my laptop this would too. Bad assumption. Activision help desk informed me that there currently are NO graphic cards on laptops that can handle this game. Too bad.

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

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.

Can't run the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: September 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have problem running the game, I ran tutorial fine, once I click the Start Game button I got kicked out to the desk top. I run a late model Dell with Window XP, other games I ran like Civ3, Shogun War etc had no problem.

Terrible, terrible, terrible waste of time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 28
Date: November 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I would rate it zero stars, but there is no such option. Just as you are about to conquer the world, almost every single provence revolts. Even if you have two spies in every provence. Any loyalty of above 150. Even if the enemy king is 78 years old, and all of his fellow horse men have been killed, he can rout 240 archers that have him surrounded, then kill your 30 something year old king and his three fellow knights. The game has internal logic but it stacks the odds against you in ways that are oddly illogical. It is just a frustrating game.

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 ...

save your money, this game is buggy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: September 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This would have been a GREAT game, but it does not work!!!
I tried playing this game on 3 different machines, and it only installed and "worked" on one.
Then, after playing the campaign mode for a few years, this game just crashes at a certain date in the game, and I cannot continue the game.

SAVE YOUR MONEY! A pox on this game!
I am going to burn my copy of this game.

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!

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