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Medieval 2: Total War
- Official web page: LINK
- Publisher: Sega
- Developer: [url=http://www.creative-assembly.com/Creative Assembly[/url]
- Genre: Strat
- Story/Description:
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Medieval 2 is the latest and greatest game to be released in the best selling and award-winning Total War series. Set in the years 1080-1530 the most turbulent period in European history, the game combines a vast, deep-thinking turn-based strategy campaign with the most cinematic, epic and brutal real-time battles ever seen in the genre.
A vastly enhanced version of the Total War engine vividly portrays the pure bloodlust of Medieval warfare with massive battles of more than 10,000 troops splayed across new graphically rich environments. For the first time in the Total War series each troop is an individual, garbed with the rich heraldic colours and glinting arms and armour of the period.
On the battlefield they’ll survey their surroundings for threats and incoming opponents and react accordingly. When engaged they’ll string together a series of devastating moves as Medieval 2’s new combat animation brings the conflict to life like never before. Total War has never been so ferocious or realistic.
The Medieval 2 grand campaign will hand you the reins of one of an emerging faction as you set about sweeping throughout Europe, conquering all before you. Expand your borders and develop your lands for wealth and prosperity by building cities or swell your army by constructing vast castles to protect your land and keep your rivals quaking with fear.
Use Princesses for diplomatic gain, Priests to spread the influence of your religious beliefs and Merchants to fill your coffers for your war effort. All the time the Pope and the Papal States watch over the Christian world, assessing the strength of your faith and making demands to prove your loyalty. Do you cater to his whims and avoid excommunication or plot his downfall and rig the papal elections to place your own Pope in power?
Key Features Include:
Real-Time Battles On a Massive Scale
Epic Battles with Enhanced Unit Detail
Thunderous battles on a huge scale with thousands of units on screen. Armies are now made up of meticulously detailed troops built with unique heads, body, weapons and armour with unique animations and poses that gives each individual unit character and depth. Troops and cavalry are decorated with all the heraldic finery and colour of medieval warfare that’s gradually muddied and bloodstained through the course of battle.
New Unit Abilities
A legion of more than 250 new and unique units split over 21 factions, each with their own new special abilities that open up a wealth of intuitive battlefield tactics.
Advanced Combat System
Zoom to the frontline and witness the fast, visceral melee combat enhanced by new spectacular battlefield animations. Troops block and parry attack moves and string together deadly combo attacks and finishing moves before scanning the battlefield for their next kill.
New Explosive Sieges
Embark on spectacular siege battles as huge armies and fearsome siege machines rumble into action. Devastating cannon, pummel imposing defences of fully destructible cities and castles before setting them aflame under the night sky.
Advanced Lighting and Richer Environments
A newly enhanced graphics engine brings the battlefield environment to life like never before. The stunningly realistic landscapes feature detailed vegetation with sprawling settlements. Newly detailed dynamic weather effects beat down on new terrain types illuminated by enhanced lighting that captures every glint and spark as arms and armour clash under a gleaming sun.
Enhanced Multiplayer Battles
New multiplayer battle modes will ease the player’s passage to the battlefield and keep the online conflict raging.
A New All-Conquering Campaign
History in the Making
A huge campaign spanning from the years 1080-1530, that will take the player beyond the first Crusade up until the dawn of the renaissance. An extended campaign map will allow passage to South and Central America bringing the player into battle with the Aztecs.
New Settlement Types
Build through six levels of settlement ranging from humble villages to vast cities and wooden forts to mighty stone fortress. Develop your faction as a feudal aristocracy using you castles to keep the peasants in check whilst conquering your enemies with your powerful armies. Or build cities to develop a wealthy urban society, and battle your foes with diplomacy, bribery, assassination and armies of mercenaries.
A Supporting Cast
Put an array of ancillary characters to work and smooth your path to global domination. Boost your coffers with Merchants. Grease the cogs of diplomacy with Princesses and manage your faction’s path to religious enlightenment with Priests. Charge assassins to wipe out enemy generals and witness their cold-hearted killing first-hand with assassination movie sequences.
Embrace Religion
Will you obey the demands of the Papal States, catering to the whims of the Pope? Or shun his requests and risk facing his fearsome Inquisitors or even excommunication? Make a stand against him and you can infiltrate papal affairs by rigging elections.
Global Crusades
Win favour with the Pope and round up your armies for global crusades at his request. Players can even prompt the Pope to commission crusades as Catholicism wages a spiritual battle against the Muslim, Orthodox and Pagan religions.
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- Multiplayer: Yes
- News article/s: Gamespot Lookie at it
- Screenshots: Gamespot Screenies
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| Posted: Sat, 18th Feb 2006 06:23 Post subject: |
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looks decent enough... but the phrase 'deadly combo attacks and finishing moves' sets some mental alarms off, especially since ca are sega's bitches now...also to really 'wow' me like rtw did when i first played it i'd need some realistic physics(at least good-lookin ragdoll) added to the engine, which i dont see mentioned. anyways nice eye candy but i am much more in anticipation of rtr 7.0 at this point.
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| Posted: Sat, 18th Feb 2006 08:00 Post subject: |
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Ragdoll, on that kind of scale? Are you retarded!?
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| Posted: Sat, 18th Feb 2006 08:41 Post subject: |
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| AnimalMother wrote: | | Ragdoll, on that kind of scale? Are you retarded!? |
no, but your mom is?? jeez this place is getting really sad with the level of kiddies with their insults. I SAID TO WOW ME LIKE RTW DID. as in, i am not overly impressed by the eye candy? anyways maybe you ppl can get all drooly and jack off over these screenshots but im sure not. the game could be complete shit when it comes out. anyways whatever continue on with the circle jerk over a couple of screenies.
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| Posted: Sat, 18th Feb 2006 23:09 Post subject: |
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woohooo, can hardly wait for this game to hit the stores (yes the stores, i bought evry TW there is so far) its hard to find better games then TW series, the replay values are trough the roofs. the only game i play now days are rome totalwar barbarian invasion. and rome wasnt even the better in the serie.
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| Posted: Sat, 18th Feb 2006 23:17 Post subject: |
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| upstart_69 wrote: | | no, but your mom is?? jeez this place is getting really sad with the level of kiddies with their insults. I SAID TO WOW ME LIKE RTW DID. as in, i am not overly impressed by the eye candy? anyways maybe you ppl can get all drooly and jack off over these screenshots but im sure not. the game could be complete shit when it comes out. anyways whatever continue on with the circle jerk over a couple of screenies. |
Yeah you sure did up the maturity-level with the mom-comeback.
And AnimalMother has a perfectly good point, ragdoll in an epic-scale game like this wont happen any time soon.
I have complete confidence that this game will be a smash-hit and im happy they chose to do this new game in the medieval setting once again. As for the chance of this being crap i do not think there is a high probability for that, Shogun, Medieval and Rome were all awesome, CA knows what they are doing and who their audience is.
And as always the rtr-team will get us the mods needed for better realism.
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Exactly, it is retarded to expect a game to deliver something so beyond current technology, it will only result in disappointment.
Haha, you really proved your maturity with that reply Upstart, just keep deluding youself. In actual fact it's you who has focused solely on the graphics, did you even read the first post? The rest of us will expect a fantastic game, and in all likelihood the developers will deliver.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 01:20 Post subject: |
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Its gonna be really cool, played all the other Total War games with great joy!
And the graphics just looks stunning
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 01:25 Post subject: |
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Only thing that sucks is that once again they've decided to not include Sweden as a faction. What's that about? Sweden was a superpower during the middle ages 
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 01:27 Post subject: |
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Thins its more because of Swedens geographical situation that makes them leave it out of the game.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 02:44 Post subject: |
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This is going to be awesome.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 03:48 Post subject: |
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| fraich3 wrote: | | Thins its more because of Swedens geographical situation that makes them leave it out of the game. |
Nah then you could just as well leave out England, Denmark, Russia or whatever. They just hate us :'(
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 05:25 Post subject: |
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| javlar wrote: | | fraich3 wrote: | | Thins its more because of Swedens geographical situation that makes them leave it out of the game. |
Nah then you could just as well leave out England, Denmark, Russia or whatever. They just hate us :'( |
Well you dont see Finland, Norway or most of Russia. But i get what you mean, Sweden was rather big at some point of the medieval period, and imo i should be playable in some time periods.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 12:00 Post subject: |
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too bad it doesnt come out until Q4 2006
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 12:13 Post subject: |
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Well Sweden was not to involved during the Medieval Era (AD 500-1500), well maybe somewhat with the Vikings around (AD 800-1000 or so)but they where mostly Danes and Norwegians anyway, at least the ones that where piliging in Europe (mostly on the West Coast of England. The real glory days for Sweden (if one can call it that) was during the 30 year war (AD 1618-1648) and that was the Baroque era.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 18:01 Post subject: |
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Yep thats me, the worst "besserwisser" there is when it comes to History...just cant help myself;)
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 18:25 Post subject: |
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Well the only game I can think about with was Cossacks, in that you could play Swede, Dane etc.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Feb 2006 21:34 Post subject: |
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True true. But anyhow it would rock to be able to play your own country 
That aside it's gonna be a looong wait for this one. They better release oblivion soon so i have something to pass the time with
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| Posted: Mon, 20th Feb 2006 17:53 Post subject: |
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the individual models look good on their own with detailed textures and bloom effect,
now if i multiply that by lets say 2000 then i ll have only a slight idea of how much this game
will lag on my comp
and btw, ragdoll physics in an rts with over 2000 units on-screen?
haha, you must be joking, thats not even next-gen material yet...
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| Posted: Mon, 20th Feb 2006 17:57 Post subject: |
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I'm a little turned off by the 'finishing moves' thing, and the 'spinning around'. Seems since Rome Total War they've had to go divert some of their attention to streamlining. Still, you can't go wrong with this - like Rome Total War it will be immensely entertaining nonetheless, modded or otherwise.
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| Posted: Tue, 21st Feb 2006 21:10 Post subject: |
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I hope they make it as good as the total realism mods those are alot more fun to play then the original total wars
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| Posted: Wed, 22nd Feb 2006 06:33 Post subject: |
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[quote="javlar"] | upstart_69 wrote: | | And as always the rtr-team will get us the mods needed for better realism. |
amen brother
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