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Medieval II Gold Pack (Total War, Total War Kingdoms) | 
| From: Sega of America
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 423
Format: CD
Platforms: Windows XP, Windows
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
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MPN: 85223
Model: 85223
UPC: 010086852233
EAN: 0010086852233
ASIN: B000YQ639M
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Richly detailed battles that feature thousands of 3D units and intense combat. | | • | Manage the economic, civil, religious and military arms of your empire. | | • | Over 100 different units, including knights, men-at-arms, English longbowmen, and more. | | • | Spectacular sieges, as you pound castles into dust with cannons, catapults, and ballistae. | | • | Multiplayer battles with up to seven other players over the Internet. |
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Product Description
Medieval: Total War Gold Edition is the compilation of the critically-acclaimed Medieval: Total War and its official expansion pack - Total War Kingdoms.Set in the turbulent Middle Ages Medieval puts you in command of your own empire as you crush neighboring kingdoms and unify all of Europe the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Medieval: Total War Kingdoms features four entire campaigns centered on expanded maps of the British Isles Teutonic Northern Europe the Middle East and the Americas. In Medieval II you were only given a glimpse of South America but in Kingdoms vast tracts of land in both North and South America have been opened up for you to conquer.All-new factions from the New World are also now fully playable including the Aztecs Apaches and Mayans. In both games you rule all aspects of your kingdom throughout centuries of medieval warfare. Lay siege to mighty fortresses and command vast armies across the battlefields of Europe and North Africa. This is Total War.Format: WIN 98NT2000XP/DVD SOFTWARE Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: T UPC: 010086852233 Manufacturer No: 85223
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 34
 The Grandest of Strategy games April 17, 2008
M. Fanny
32 out of 36 found this review helpful
How many games do you know where your political machinations include plotting the assassination of the Pope so as to be able to elect a pontiff more favorable to your own faction? It's not just because the in-battle graphics are the best you've ever seen in any strategy game, it's not that you can influence the life course of your individual family members by the kinds of actions they take in of off the battlefield, it's not that you can become an economic powerhouse by deploying an army of merchants to conquer markets and put competing merchants out of business for good, what makes this game truly grand is the diplomatic warfare in which all of this is shrouded.
Military might is important, but not necessarily primordial. Have a giant, all-engulfing, land-hungry neighbor that threatens your national security? No problem. Assassinate the current Pope, elect one that's favorable to you and not so much to him, find a way to get him to be excommunicated and ask the pope to call a crusade against him! Now you'll have five or more other factions attack him in the name of Holy religion and he'll be weaker as a result. You may even manage to expand your borders in the bargain.
Now, you may just be one of these people for whom this will be insufficient. Maybe the 21 different playable factions don't quite do it for you. Maybe the different roles your agents (priests, assassins, spies, diplomats/princesses, and merchants) can play don't impress you. Maybe you don't care much for the guilds that offer to quarter themselves into your cities. This is where the Kingdom campaigns come in. All of them are beautiful mods of the original game with a variety of interesting twists. But even without the expansion, this game is worth buying. This said, allow me one warning: stay away from this game if you are addiction-prone.
Most fun computer game I have owned in a long time... April 10, 2009
Andrew Snow (Utah)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have recently bought this game off Amazon and have been very, very impressed with it. The only word of caution I have would be to invest in a higher quality graphics card if you are looking into this game, plus the memory requirments are steep.
I have bought all the previous Total War games, and got sick of Rome:Total War after 4 years of playing, much to my wife's disgust and nagging, and decided to buy Medieval Total War 2:Kingdoms, to bug her that much more. :)
My overall expereince is very impressed. Graphics are great, battles are much harder then Rome: Total War, Politics and Religion actually play a large part. Different from Rome and the other previous Total War games, you have to please not only your own nobles, but have to make the Pope happy, usually by not attacking other Catholic Christian factions. If not, you incure the wrath of the Church and can become excommunicated, then all havoc breaks loose on you for different Catholic factions as well.
To me it seems that Medieval Total War 2 is a combination of all the previous Total War games into one. The cool assination video from Shogun Total War, the ransoming of captured prisoners and depth of troop types from Medieval Total War 1, and the stunning graphics and map (not like a Risk board but actually holding mountain passes or hiding in forests to ambush unsuspecting armies)of Rome Total War.
Turn based strategy-with real time battles September 27, 2008
M. Santarelli (Northeast Ohio-USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have played total war since Shogun TW- I am a fan of turn based strategy all the way back to the best one, Chess. For those of you who do not know about this game, do not be fooled by the RTS label. This is 'not' a real time strategy in the true sense. Consider playing Risk/with infinite more detail to growing your power base. Taxes/Building/Training armies/ politics and Diplomacy, it's all there.
You might even learn a little bit of History as you go.
This gold edition is a deal. I purchased the first version and then the expansion and actually do not play the scenarios in the expansion as I prefer the Grand Campaign. For this I have found a couple of Mods that really expand on this title. You don't have to fight the real time battles if you don't want to-these can be time consuming so if you have overwhelming odds you can just auto resolve the battle.
all in all this title is well worth the asking price.
Great value, great games January 7, 2009
Jonathan N. Klein
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When you buy the Gold Edition, you are in reality buying five different campaign scenarios - the original M2TW and the four Kingdoms campaigns. These five scenarios launch with different links, and act like five different games. They all have specific features, such as permanent forts on the campaign map in addition to castles/cities for the British Isles campaign. As a result, there is a huge amount of replay value here. Each campaign has a large number of factions, and a varying degree of difficulty. I played the original M2TW a significant amount before purchasing this package, and I can assure you that there is plenty of content in Kingdoms to keep you busy for quite a long time. In addition, they seem to have patched a number of bugs from the original game.
I would highly recommend this product, since you get an enormous amount of content for a very low price in comparison with most original/expansion pack combos. This is without a doubt one of the best turn based strategy games I have played. I used to love Lords of the Realm 2, and Medieval 2 has blown that game (and it's sequel) out of the water.
The one thing to note is that the system requirements are fairly high. If you want to play this game on max settings, you are going to need a relatively new computer with a good video card.
A game to endure September 9, 2009
Hugo Villegas (Colombia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With the same philosophy of ROME TW, just better. Far better graphics, including the proportions. Have you ever noticed how enormous the buildings are, compared to people, in ROME? This issue have been improved, as well as the lights, textures and motion of both man of foot and the horses.
The addition of the "Princess" agent is very welcome, as well as the "merchants" and "priests".
The playability is awesome, as well as the script, videos and soundtrack.
The only thing missing here was the old ROME feature of just checking out your town once in a while, without having to be in the middle of a battle just to see it.
A great addition, with the Kingdoms expansion, is the ability to give orders to your AI reinforcements in the middle of the battle!
You're going to need a mean machine if you're to actually enjoy the brutal realism of the battles, but it's worth the investment.
Truly terrific. :)
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