General Comments and Concises about M2TW

**blahblahblah** · 10-03-2006, 05:29

Since you guys have seen many screenshots, videos, previews, blogs and comments about this game, I wonder what your overall view of this game is. This is because I'm too lazy to find every thread possible to come to the conclusion.

From the comments I read, I can see that hardcore and loyal fans of M2TW are pretty disappointed with the progress.

**Polemists** · 10-03-2006, 07:22

Depeneds on which loyal fans you talk to. I still know several people buying this game. (yes some just so they can mod it). Still I would keep in mind this forum is not even half of the loyal fans of total war series. Just a few vocal people.

Some are disappointed but I also think if you look you'd see some of us are excited. Some by the game, some at the possibilites of mods with this game.

Personally i love it, but it's all opinion. I'd say wait till you test it in demo before you decide. Just my view.

**Hobot** · 10-03-2006, 09:13

I'm excited

However I'm not a hardcore fan. But I am a fairly serious player of strategy games. I just tend not to nitpick as much as other people, and enjoy what I can. Personally I think MTW2 looks to be the best total war game to date

**Gurkhal** · 10-03-2006, 09:30

I'm positivly curious about the game. I won't praise it or bash it before I've played it however.

**spong** · 10-03-2006, 11:54

I'm very excited about the improved graphics, particularly with regard to combat animations and interaction and the individuality of each soldier.

I have one minor gripe that is CA don't appear to have moved away from the 'garish faction colours on every unit', Rome mods such as RTR and EB have proved that more subdued and realistic colour schemes can work without getting confused over which faction is which on the battlefield, admittedly there would be brighter colours in knights livery by the medieval period but I'm really talking about the faction colour that will adorn every unit (the horrible purple in the new Byzantium screenies for example). Even if the colours were maintained and just desaturated and darkened it would be an improvement, I'm just a bit fed up of bright greens, turqouises (thrace anyone?) etc.

Other than that it looks all good.

**Nobunaga** · 10-03-2006, 13:08

i believe that M2TW will turn out to be better than RTW but worse then STW

STW > MTW > M2TW > RTW

**the_mango55** · 10-04-2006, 01:57

Originally Posted by blahblahblah

Since you guys have seen many screenshots, videos, previews, blogs and comments about this game, I wonder what your overall view of this game is. This is because I'm too lazy to find every thread possible to come to the conclusion.

From the comments I read, I can see that hardcore and loyal fans of M2TW are pretty disappointed with the progress.

What would you consider a "hardcore and loyal fan?"

Someone who plays the game and loves it, or someone who plays the game and bitches about it constantly.

The things I have seen in it make me happy, there are things I don't like, but they can all be easily changed by myself modding for a few minutes.

**blahblahblah** · 10-04-2006, 03:39

Originally Posted by the_mango55

What would you consider a "hardcore and loyal fan?"

Someone who plays the game and loves it, or someone who plays the game and bitches about it constantly.

The things I have seen in it make me happy, there are things I don't like, but they can all be easily changed by myself modding for a few minutes.

Hardcore and loyal fans are basically people who loves the game. Loyal is just a tint above the hardcore level fanwise as they are loyal and will continue to support the franchise, while hardcore might just leave and play the ones they loved (RTW was no good so they revert back to MTW or some other retro RTS game).

**Kourutsu** · 10-04-2006, 06:09

Can someone make a mod that would make the campaign longer?

Or maybe there will be a cheat to set the years back. And give your generals great stats. And spawn a enormous army in single turn. Or make elephants gargantuan. No! Get the grandmaster guild building with a single command line!

Um. After beating the game fair first. Or not. It's my game.

I hope they have a Rome shell equivalent...

**spong** · 10-04-2006, 11:19

Does anyone know if MTW2 will carry on some of the cool features introduced by BI? Such as night battles, swimming etc. I think they really improved over the original Rome in this respect but I don't get to enjoy those features because I don't really like any of the BI factions so I don't play it :(

**Puzz3D** · 10-04-2006, 11:56

Originally Posted by spong

Does anyone know if MTW2 will carry on some of the cool features introduced by BI? Such as night battles, swimming etc. I think they really improved over the original Rome in this respect but I don't get to enjoy those features because I don't really like any of the BI factions so I don't play it :(

Play the XGM. It can use the BI.exe; you get the BI features in the RTW setting.
XGM version 4.1.8, XGM Readme