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The Blind King of Bohemia
05-10-2006, 18:27
Check it out:

Link (http://204.155.67.80/index.html?page=/en/medieval2/gameinfo/units/index.html&nav=/en/medieval2/1/2/)

Features an amazing looking trailer, some new info on factions (have the Mayans been added too? Is there more factions than 21?) and more besides. Loving that Byzantine Kataphract, and the great Aztec music.

L'Impresario
05-10-2006, 18:56
Visually nice indeed. Can't hear the music, and I definitely got sound turned on.

Having a mayan faction is the equivalent to the MTW italian one.

Actually, I was more intrigued by this part:


Greater accessibility.

Experience a faster multiplayer mode on the battlefield and keep the online conflict raging.

Really makes me wonder...

EDIT: Ah, just found the soundtrack section. It evokes something of an andean flute there. Or was it a mayan double one heh

Divine Wind
05-10-2006, 19:05
Hurrah!

I always thought the .com needed a facelift!

The soundtracks section is quality, looks as if Jeff van Dyck has made another excellent score for MTW2. The "Going Home" song made me feel all tingly....cant wait now :jumping:

drone
05-10-2006, 19:48
Oh well. I don't have admin on my work machine, so I can't upgrade to Flash 8, and I keep JavaScript turned off for security purposes. I will actually have to surf the web from home now. :no:

Viking
05-10-2006, 21:08
Nice soundtracks.

Alexander the Pretty Good
05-10-2006, 21:39
Spiffy. I'll need a new PC.

Rufus
05-10-2006, 23:47
"Euro Battle" sounds cool and will get you geared up for battle, but the organ sounds really out of place. That part of the piece sounds like it should be in the 17/18th century ...

Martok
05-11-2006, 00:10
Oh well. I don't have admin on my work machine, so I can't upgrade to Flash 8, and I keep JavaScript turned off for security purposes. I will actually have to surf the web from home now. :no:


Yeah, I'm going to have to wait til I get home from work as well. [sigh] Oh well.... ~:(

Joshwa
05-11-2006, 00:26
Anyone else notice the generally clumsy use of English on that site?:dizzy2:

Zalmoxis
05-11-2006, 03:34
This is better, since now it's organized. It was a real mess before.

Martok
05-11-2006, 08:50
I agree. It's generally easier to find stuff now than it was before. Also, they put up music from *all* of the TW games, not just Medieval 2. I spent a very pleasant 10 minutes or so listening to part of the Shogun soundtrack. ~:)

Trajanus
05-11-2006, 09:48
I just like the aesthetics of the new layout. Congrats .com :)


The Viking Invasion expansion pack moves the action of the game some 300 years into the past, .........................................................as William’s ancestors were Vikings rather than French.

Is the a heads-up on the expansion pack for M2TW or just talking about old MTW?

Furious Mental
05-11-2006, 10:16
New website says the Holy Roman Emperor is elected. Should make things interesting.

Peasant Phill
05-11-2006, 10:46
New website says the Holy Roman Emperor is elected. Should make things interesting.

That was already this way in MTW. In the game itself the title of emperor still passed from father to son but with the safety of having your best general elected in the case the emperor dies heirlesly. The downside of this system is that the HRE had a lot of problems with disloyalty with civil wars as a consequence.

Incongruous
05-11-2006, 10:57
No matter...
Looks really good but the Euro battle sound ludicrous what with the organs I mean c'mon.

Furious Mental
05-11-2006, 12:21
Well err organs are one of the instruments that they actually had in the Middle Ages

Incongruous
05-11-2006, 12:29
Oh yes thats right!
silly me!

Vladimir
05-11-2006, 13:03
About time they upgraded that God awful site. It's what drove me here, although now I'm glad it did.

Taurus
05-11-2006, 13:09
Very nice new look, sleak and swanky. Can't wait for MTWII. ~:thumb:

Ultras DVSC
05-11-2006, 19:41
The new site is splendid, but I really don't like this "exhibiting style".. I mean e.g. in the faction descriptions why do not they list all the playable factions, would it be so difficult? :no:

Martok
05-12-2006, 01:38
Is the a heads-up on the expansion pack for M2TW or just talking about old MTW?


Mike B. from CA clarified that was just an error. Some of the text from MTW was erroneously copied to the text for Medieval 2.

Asean
05-12-2006, 02:38
I notice that one of the music is labelled "Lakota Lambada". Will the Lakota tribe of North America be added as well, or is it just the name of the track?

I wouldn't mind a North American tribe/faction/clan. Would they be nomads?

http://www.rsriddick.com/galleries/native_am/images/lakota-water-maidens.jpg
http://www.inghamart.com/paintings/lakota-chief-marshall.jpg
http://www.aotw.com/images/July_Aug_05/p68.jpg
http://www.mcallistergallery.com/images/PATSWORK/SUNRISEONTHELAKOTA.jpg

edyzmedieval
05-12-2006, 12:12
For some unknown reason, the video doesn't load for me. ~:(

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm stupid. :grin: