is there a better game

[Dyonisius]

Several games better than RTW that I can name:

MTW
Imperial Glory
Romance of the Three Kindgoms IX
Neverwinter Nights
Axis & Allies

Now, if you want better than Medieval: Total War it's probably a (much) smaller list:

Imperial Glory (a matter of taste.. I think this game's the best thing since sliced bread and porn)
Axis & Allies

Imperial Glory looks decent, but it seems like it is heavily inspired on MTW & RTW, also it seems to have less units capacity. There are only 50 maps and 5 nations, RtW has more.

And since it is only recently in store who knows if it doesn't has a nasty bug like the save/load thing.

Axis & Allies I dont know, I found the Close Combat serries pretty good as for a WW2 game, but that are just obsolete games.

As for porn it depends HOW and IF you are paying for it

[Navaros]

kind of an odd question...it's difficult to compare games of all stripes to one specific game (ie: R: TW)

what is better when comparing games across all genres is destined to be highly subjective

that said, i would say yes there are many better games than the TW game. but the question is so abstract that it's hard to qualify that statement with concrete tangibles

[KRALLODHRIB]

I fancy that this question will be answered defferently by the same person depending on mood, etc. Still, overall there is no real equivalent to RTW. Warcraft and Doom III (however attractive) are jokes as far as replayability IMO. Warcraft in particular is insanely primitive, comparatively speaking.

Neverwinter is perhaps somwhere near as fun as RTW (though a different genre).

BTW, clayton ballentine, I found your signature more interesting than your query/poll.

What exactly does this mean?

"i am almost an historian"

Just curious.

[the tokai]

Knights and merchants. I just digged that one up from under a huge pile of manuals and installed it again and even though the game is very old it still rules. For it's time it was simply amazing and even now the game is still pretty good an lot's of fun.