MTW2 Demo released

[EdwardL]

www.totalwar.com

enjoy :)

[Dayve]

Well i have to say, i've played the battle of Agincourt and the AI seems to be supremely better than anything RTW or mods for it can ever offer... But is it scripted? I recall Rome's army AI performing quite well in the RTW demo... Intelligent decisions and whatnot, but it was just scripted and when the game came out it was entirely different.

Also, is it just me or do the men seem tiny? They're definately not as big as they are in RTW... It's like commanding an army of little people, fighting against other little people...

[Bonny]

Well i have to say, i've played the battle of Agincourt and the AI seems to be supremely better than anything RTW or mods for it can ever offer... But is it scripted? I recall Rome's army AI performing quite well in the RTW demo... Intelligent decisions and whatnot, but it was just scripted and when the game came out it was entirely different.

Both Historical Battle are Scripted. So you can't say much about the AI.

Also, is it just me or do the men seem tiny? They're definately not as big as they are in RTW... It's like commanding an army of little people, fighting against other little people...

Zoom in alittle bit more....

[Dayve]

I did, but they still seem tiny.

[Olaf The Great]

I did, but they still seem tiny.

MTW2. DWARVEN INVASION!

[MSB]

MTW2. DWARVEN INVASION!

[EdwardL]

son of a... well it looks like i need to upgrade video card. any recommendations for bang for the buck?

[Aks K]

Having played the demo I am still waiting for EB version 0.8. I am not impressed about the graphics, cause my computer is in the mid-low end. The zoom out doesn't look all that great on low or mid settings.
I hope that the beta testing is going well and 0.8 will soon be out.

Aks K

[Wardo]

I'm not keen either because I also need a new vid-card to play it decently.

[-Praetor-]

Veni (I`ve come)

Vidi (I`ve played it)

and...

I totally stay with EB .

Nothing special, except for the finishing off animations...

Still waiting eagerly for .8. ;)

[Sdragon]

My specs are above recommended and it still runs like crap. I'll have to play with graphics all the way at the bottom for huge scale. It'll be like playing RTW with a mod.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

If people want to play a medieval game, go for it. If you want to play a game set in the ancient world, you'll still be playing some variant of RTW for at least another year, and maybe closer to two.

[Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom]

I know pcgamer released this demo in one of their magazines for their subcribers, but will this issue holding the demo be realesed to stores? I have dial up and pretty much no way in hell of being able to download that gargantuan file, so this is my only chance of seeing how well the game will run. Anybody know???

[Tuuvi]

I got the demo and I didn't like the graphics much at all. They were good, but it seemed kind of cartoonish to me and when you zoomed in you couldn't see the action very well at all. Also there isn't much point in having good graphics when you can't even play the game if your video card is older than three months

[paullus]

Its all about EB, bay-bay! Yeauhh. I'll look into M2TW when I see some good mods coming out (especially an ancient one!), but until then, I'm in no rush.

[Dayve]

I got the demo and I didn't like the graphics much at all. They were good, but it seemed kind of cartoonish to me and when you zoomed in you couldn't see the action very well at all. Also there isn't much point in having good graphics when you can't even play the game if your video card is older than three months

I've only got a Radeon x800, 1 gig of ram and a p4 2.4 processor... Mine runs good on large unit sizes and high detail so i don't see where everybody is having the problems... The x800 came out over 2 years ago.

[CountArach]

I'm not giong to play it just yet. I will just wait for the final version which will hopefully be better optimised for PCs that aren't at the top end of the market.

[Faenaris]

If people want to play a medieval game, go for it. If you want to play a game set in the ancient world, you'll still be playing some variant of RTW for at least another year, and maybe closer to two.

QFT.

[pezhetairoi]

hmm dayve, i believe it may have something to do with the processor speed? I run a p4 1.4 and it lags like hell, while you run a 2.4? I have a friend repairs computers and owns a shop who tells me misconception is that people always think it's the video card when it's actually the processor...dual core is best, i am told.

[Tuuvi]

hmm dayve, i believe it may have something to do with the processor speed? I run a p4 1.4 and it lags like hell, while you run a 2.4? I have a friend repairs computers and owns a shop who tells me misconception is that people always think it's the video card when it's actually the processor...dual core is best, i am told.

Yea that makes sense, my video card is a Nvidia Geforce 5500 or something like that, which isn't bad(I think) but my processer is only like 1.80 GHz

[NeoSpartan]

I am sticking with EB like I said before.

[Chester]

I can't even get to the start screen, fatal error when I double click the icon.

Is it fun?

[pezhetairoi]

Maybe that's what everyone got when they tried to start the game, but they're just faking it! *gasp* XD

[Proper Gander]

click the link for a some in-game combat footage of M2TW

spin me around

[eadingas]

Lol. Is that a special move that you trigger or something? Or is it just their usual attack animation?

[Proper Gander]

probably just one of the fighting animations.

CA was going on about the kewl combos that would be in M2TW a few months ago.

[Monarch]

Veni (I`ve come)

Vidi (I`ve played it)

and...

I totally stay with EB .

Nothing special, except for the finishing off animations...

Still waiting eagerly for .8. ;)

Lol, judging a whole game on a demo, a demo which doesn't contain campaign or custom battles. No need to troll until you've played the whole game

[The Spartan (Returns)]

small people?
i think its fine!

[Spectral]

As for me EB has become so associated with RTW that I can't separe the 2, I'll post this here ;)


After having played the demo, I have to say I wasn't that impressed by its graphics, I mean I fee like it's not that big of evolution over RTW, and it seemed to be a lot heavier on my system ( ati x700 128 ) than its predecessor. Yep, some of the eye candy like the "no-clone army" and the killer moves were nice, but one thing seems for sure, is that EB's skins of the models seem way more detailed and realistic than MTW2 ( like in RTW if we compare them they have this kind of cartoonish/glowing feeling).

I've never been a fan of the historic battles ( because they are are set-piece events, with lots of scripting involved, I don't think they flow as naturally as normal ones) so haven't played them to the end.

Still, I am waiting eagerly for this, and to see to what extent CA as improved the strategic side of the game over RTW.



PS : trees are now normally size, not LoTR standard ones :)

[Tuuvi]

PS : trees are now normally size, not LoTR standard ones :)

That really makes my day. I hate the trees in RTW.