Incongruous
11-18-2006, 23:05
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/medieval-2-total-war/746647p3.html
Again these reviewers seem amazed that medieval total war includes aspects which have been known about for nearly a year.
Gamers who've played Rome: Total War, especially with the excellent Barbarian Invasion expansion, may sense some déjà vu on the Medieval II map. It may have more detail, but you're fighting over essentially the same Eurasian and North African terrain as the previous title, which takes away from the game's novelty.
I mean c'mon, how pathetic is that?
Again they seem to be putting too much stock on innovation.
For players new to the Total War games looking for a hardcore medieval warfare strategy game, Medieval II: Total War delivers. But for fans of the franchise, the new title may fall short of expectations, offering little in the way of substantial improvements over 2004's excellent Rome: Total War.
I am fairly sure that most vets were amazingly dissapointed with RTW myself included, I hav eheard that M2TW has refined the game as the second game on each engine does. So where's the surprise.
campaign plays slowly; new strategic units slow the game down without adding much.
Seems like an RTS fan to me:no:
He does raise valued problems about the AI though
The game's AI on the big map is sometimes flawed. Large, lavish, wealthy coastal cities are often left undefended -- easy targets for anyone with a stack of units and a fleet. Within the real-time battles, the AI is a competent (if not brilliant) opponent, but will sometimes stand still and allow you to pelt it with arrows unopposed.
Undefended coastal cities are just one flaw that can be exploited. For example, during castle sieges, once the enemy has retreated to the inner keep of a castle, you can run your troops into the town walls and then cross over to the inner castle walls, usually unopposed, even going so far as to open the gate for yourself. None of these are major issues, but they pull down the campaign experience somewhat -- sometimes you feel like you're exploiting your way across the continent instead of winning it through grit and guile.
Overall a pretty shabby review, but after the reviews of RTW which made it seem like the messiah, I don't put much stock in it.
They gave it four stars out of five a "great"!
P.S not sure if this ahs already been posted, so my apalogies if it has.
Again these reviewers seem amazed that medieval total war includes aspects which have been known about for nearly a year.
Gamers who've played Rome: Total War, especially with the excellent Barbarian Invasion expansion, may sense some déjà vu on the Medieval II map. It may have more detail, but you're fighting over essentially the same Eurasian and North African terrain as the previous title, which takes away from the game's novelty.
I mean c'mon, how pathetic is that?
Again they seem to be putting too much stock on innovation.
For players new to the Total War games looking for a hardcore medieval warfare strategy game, Medieval II: Total War delivers. But for fans of the franchise, the new title may fall short of expectations, offering little in the way of substantial improvements over 2004's excellent Rome: Total War.
I am fairly sure that most vets were amazingly dissapointed with RTW myself included, I hav eheard that M2TW has refined the game as the second game on each engine does. So where's the surprise.
campaign plays slowly; new strategic units slow the game down without adding much.
Seems like an RTS fan to me:no:
He does raise valued problems about the AI though
The game's AI on the big map is sometimes flawed. Large, lavish, wealthy coastal cities are often left undefended -- easy targets for anyone with a stack of units and a fleet. Within the real-time battles, the AI is a competent (if not brilliant) opponent, but will sometimes stand still and allow you to pelt it with arrows unopposed.
Undefended coastal cities are just one flaw that can be exploited. For example, during castle sieges, once the enemy has retreated to the inner keep of a castle, you can run your troops into the town walls and then cross over to the inner castle walls, usually unopposed, even going so far as to open the gate for yourself. None of these are major issues, but they pull down the campaign experience somewhat -- sometimes you feel like you're exploiting your way across the continent instead of winning it through grit and guile.
Overall a pretty shabby review, but after the reviews of RTW which made it seem like the messiah, I don't put much stock in it.
They gave it four stars out of five a "great"!
P.S not sure if this ahs already been posted, so my apalogies if it has.