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Best Game Series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 29
Date: February 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I haven't yet played the new expansion pack to the award winning game Medieval Total War but I love the series and they are by far the best games on the market. An expansion pack can only make things better by fixing the few problems that their are in the game and also to make more options open to the player. I recommend this game to anyone that likes strategy games.

The Title

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 24
Date: March 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The title for this new expansion pack is "Viking Invasion". It will be sure to bring you many fun-filled hours of shield-biting berserkers, Brutal Jomsvikings, and many new factions to add to the already fabulous game.

A Great addition to a Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 53 / 62
Date: May 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When medieval total war hit the shelves I was elated. From the moment I played the demo, I fell in love with the game. Finally, a game that focuses on realism and the fine tactics of combat. Finally, a game with broad scope and yet a lot of depth too. Finally, a game that seemed to understand just what I had always wanted in a strategy game. Medieval was a great success, so needless to say, I was excited about this expansion.

I just recieved the expansion in the mail today (5/8/03) and I'm happy to report that it's great!

There's no denying it, most exapansion packs are rip-offs that you regret buying. Viking Invasion however, is well worth it's money to anyone who thurouly enjoys the original game.

The premise of the pack is to turn back the clock to 793 AD, when the Vikings raided northumbria in britain. This marked the beggining of a reign of terror by the norsemen. At the same time, there were numerous small kingdoms struggling for control of the british isles. It makes for a very interesting and completely logical explansion campagne. You are now offered a new era to play in which will give you a completely new map (a map of britain) and several new civilizations. There are over 40 new units, most of which are pretty cool - most notabley berserkers, Huscarls, houscarles and fyrdman. The new campagne is both fun, and a bit more challenging than the previous one. You'll aslo be happy to see that there are now many more sieges than before, with villages and warrior halls being precursors to forts, keeps and castles. It's pretty cool, when assaulting a village there is no gate, just a stockade around a village filled with buildings where the enemy is. It's nice to finally see more combat inside actuall villages and cities, though it's not perfect (units have a bit of trouble navigating around buildings sometimes).

The improvements the expansion pack offers also spill into the original game. This includes new playable civs in the original campagne as well as some new units. The real gem is the gameplay enhancements. which offer fire and flaming arrows, some tweaks and gameplay polishing, a new pre battle screen that REALLY makes a difference when you're decinding what to do before a battle, a new reinforcment screen to plan your reinforcements and some other stuff.

All together if you still play and enjoy medieval, than go buy this right away! If you've already gotten tired of medieval, this MAY be enough to renew your interest, but it's still basically the same game.

Pros: Flaming arrows and catipult shots, New pre-battle screen is a MUCH NEEDED addition, new reinforcment screen is helpful, the new campagne is a nice change and offers new fun and even more variety to the game, 40 new units, each of which is cool in it's own right, new buildings, the new campagne has village battles and multiple gameplay twaeks and changes that are really phat, the original campagne is not ignored, it gets many of the same improvements and 2 new civs and some new units too to round out a really good expansion!

Disapointments: I wish the pre-battle system allowed you to see the vices and virtues of the generals, flaming missiles are automatic (you cant toggle or CHOOSE whether or not to use them), I wish they would have improved diplomacy a bit, I was hoping to see battering rams and siege towers but no.

Total War Viking Invasion Exp Pack

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Personally I like the changes. It has improved upon what was already my favorite strategy/war game. The addition of a better pre-battle interface is nice, you can actually organize your forces better. I also like the additional unit types, helps add color and depth to the game. So far the Viking period has been a blast and the AI of the enemy generals is much improved over the the last game. They are crafty and the high level generals are definitely a challenge. Overall I can't wait for the next installment of Rome Total War. Drooling just thinking about it.

Viking Invasion...the Expansion Worth Buying

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This expansion is awesome. As soon as I could buy it, I did, and I am absolutely thrilled and glad that I bought it. This expansion adds new units to the regular Medieval: Total War game and adds special attacks and units for the Viking Invasion part of the game as well. Flaming arrows and artillery for Viking Invasion as well as boiling oil for the defending army during a seige. The historical aspects are dead-on.
If you don't want to buy this expansion, then you better wait for Rome: Total War, which will blow all other strategy games out of the water.
Go out and buy this expansion now. You know Shogun and Medieval were great, and this expansion is no less than great.

Worth the buy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge total war fan, so for an expansion set of my favorite game to come out is obviously going to make me buy it. What is great about the expansion is that if you have played a lot of the Medieval: total war, you will notice liitle things that have changed. Of course you have the whole Viking Era, which is cool and all, but my favorite aspect of this is that three more factions were added to the original campaigns. I think it is always great trying out a new faction. Another cool new thing is that you are told in detail of your vices and virtues, which are rather interesting to say the least.
It's hard for me to give less than 5 stars for a game I like so much, I guess that is why it deserves 5 stars. I can't say I have any real upsets about the expansion...maybe price... But hey, I did buy it, so price didn't matter too much.

Buying a second laptop for 'total War' game series.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 22
Date: July 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought one 'laptop' for the 'Total War' game series,loaded both 'Shogun: Total War' game series,and 'Medieval'. With a 40GB harddrive,you only get something like 13.9GB total capacity and 4.22GB free space. These games eat alot of space on your harddrive,so I bought something you can tuck away for a long period of time,and will not take to much storage space in the closet. I'm thinking about buying a second 'laptop' for the 'Rome: Total War' game series. The thing here is to never use the laptop for the 'internet',the 'antivirus software' always messes up your system over time,because it always leaves traces of it self after you 'uninstall' the software. That also goes for 'gaming software' as well. What's the point in 'uninstalling' a game if it is permanently installed in your 'harddrive'. Same thing with an 'antivirus software',one year is 365 days,meaning you have 365 copies of that 'antivirus software' imprinted on your harddrive,and if you choose another 'antivirus software',you will be creating another 365 copies conflicting with the former 'antivirus software' that's imprinted on your harddrive. That's why people have so much trouble 'installing' new antivirus's. Every day that goes by,you create another copy of what ever you installed on your harddrive. Also remember,the new 'ATI Mobility Radeon 9600'(128MB w/DirectX 9.0) for the 'notebook' comes out next fall,heard it's expected to put notebooks almost on a par with desktops for the first time as serious gaming machines,next year.

very good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'd been wanting this game for months noow and i finnaly got it. Most expansion packs are a waste of money, but not this one. In my opinion, the best part isn't the new campain but over a dozen new troops in the old game. The pre-battle ting also helps alot. Iwas dissapointed though, with the seige improvements. The boiling pitch looks like black smoke and arrows are on fire sometimes and you have no control when that is. But the good over wieghs the bad by a long shot. My overall point is: expect a fantstic expansion but not its own game.

more greatness added to an already great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Total War since the time of Shogun: TW. It set the standard for strategy games. Then we got Medieval: TW. WOW, that was an even greater game than its predecessor. Now we have an excellent expansion to burn up medieval Europe with. Though the viking campaign takes place beginning in 793 AD, you still can play the original campaign with new units and factions. Diplomacy is still the same, as well as the micromanaging. The best addition is the prebattle screen. Here you can see your forces and reinforcments you will have access to, as well as your enemies. This allows for much better battle preperations. I highly recommend this little add on to any Medieval fan. You will not be let down.

OK

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I dont think that Viking Invasion is as good as the Medieval but it adds new units and new features to the original game; not the Viking Invasion part, but the normal Medieval part becomes great after intalling this expansion.

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