Sorry MTW II ?????????

**Pompey the Great** · 12-29-2006, 18:29

Hi Generals,

Some real basic questions but I need to catch up quickly.

When did MTW II come out and are their any reviews / guides of it on the site.

I have played the original a few years ago which was fantastic and want to know how it compares to the new version.

Is it Great or a Let Down ?

Cheers

C

**nachoviper** · 12-29-2006, 19:25

Originally Posted by Pompey the Great

Hi Generals,

Some real basic questions but I need to catch up quickly.

When did MTW II come out and are their any reviews / guides of it on the site.

I have played the original a few years ago which was fantastic and want to know how it compares to the new version.

Is it Great or a Let Down ?

Cheers

C

November/ yes a lot of them

Overall it is great, some would say even better than the original, but requires a REALLY good computer

**naut** · 12-30-2006, 00:01

Wrong forum? Although it is sort of right here, as you want a comparison between it and the original.

Originally Posted by nachoviper

Overall it is great, some would say even better than the original

I beg to differ. I've lost interest in M2TW already, I've only had it for 2 months. But that's just me.

**Alpha666** · 12-30-2006, 00:54

Originally Posted by Rythmic

I beg to differ. I've lost interest in M2TW already, I've only had it for 2 months. But that's just me.

Why ? I can´t play it anyway just curious....( guess 1,4 ghz + Ati 8500 isn´t good enough for MTW2)

**naut** · 12-30-2006, 01:10

It got repetative and dull. In the same way as Rome did.

**Odin** · 01-02-2007, 17:23

I chomped at the bit when I heard MTW2 was coming out, then had a look at the specs and realized i needed a 1000-1500 (us dollars) upgrade to my PC.

So I just came back to MTW, get a mod and fire up a tough faction, there are literally hundreds of hours of game play to be had with MTW. From my snooping at the MTW2 boards, most find it a fine game but there were some shortcomings that were all to familiar from RTW.

I guess a patch is out and has fixed some issues, but the dormant ai stuff that was tossed around the board scared me off. i'll wait a year for an expansion, an indepth mod and a new PC.

**caravel** · 01-02-2007, 18:03

Originally Posted by Rythmic

It got repetative and dull. In the same way as Rome did.

I know what you mean. The battles are one thing, but it's campaign game that eventually wears me down, and has me loading up MTW again. It's just far to RTS and involved, but at the same time isn't an RTS but a sort of quasi turn based game. If any of you have played the old Fallout games you'll know what I mean. The 'allotted steps' bit is what I really despise. With STW/MTW I don't have to micromanage in this way. I can simply drag and drop and entire army from one province into another, done. With RTW I'm sending armies off on walkies to a certain point, then ending the year and sending them on a bit more. Finally they bump into some rebels and obliged to fight a boring battle where the enemy break as soon as a well placed moto-cav charge hits them square on. Then there are other battles where, everything descends into chaos and I'm clickfesting like a loon.

The realism mods fix alot of the problems with the battles, but the campaign is still the same walk a certain number of steps using up "movement points" end turn and repeat until reaching destination thingy. Having to send emissaries and priests on their travels using the same system is tiresome as well... yes that's a good word: Tiresome...