Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms Announced!

Zip · 6 Apr 2007 at 09:36

Key Features

· Four new, epic campaigns – The Americas, Britannia, The Crusades, and The Teutonic Wars.
· 23 playable factions including Aztec and Native Americans.
· Over 150 new units, including the devastating Greek Firethrower
· Control multiple armies in battle – command reinforcement armies.
· New hero characters with powerful new battlefield abilities
· A huge array of historical characters and events.
· Build permanent forts to garrison troops or seize control of key strategic points
· New technology trees influenced by Religion and Prestige
· New Mission types
· 6 New Multiplayer scenarios and 20 new Custom Battle maps
· Compatible with the new Hotseat multiplayer mode

http://www.totalwar.com/index.html?...fo/kingdoms/index.html&nav=/en/medieval2/1/4/

Looks bloody awsome :cool:

Ice Rich · 6 Apr 2007 at 14:08

I never knew abut this, d/ling trailer now

Thanks

v0n · 6 Apr 2007 at 14:42

As usual, full of historical americanisms, such as spy shot of 40 strong unit of dismounted Teutonic Knight generals standing around the yard in their winged and horned Prussian heavy armoured riders headgear but without their capes. I'd love that campaign....

Lolcb · 6 Apr 2007 at 15:02

YES! when is it out?

SkeeterUK · 6 Apr 2007 at 15:03

Screw medievil, rome war games, when are they gona make a game with guns etc and citys.

THEN it will be fun.

Zip · 6 Apr 2007 at 16:13

SkeeterPSA said:
Screw medievil, rome war games, when are they gona make a game with guns etc and citys. THEN it will be fun.

This does have guns

SkeeterUK · 6 Apr 2007 at 16:55

Im talking proper war with machine guns, tanks, nades, etc. Basically medal of honor stuff here or bf2.

Lolcb · 6 Apr 2007 at 17:02

SkeeterPSA said:
Im talking proper war with machine guns, tanks, nades, etc. Basically medal of honor stuff here or bf2.

Is there not enough games like that already?

Zip · 6 Apr 2007 at 17:07

SkeeterPSA said:
Im talking proper war with machine guns, tanks, nades, etc. Basically medal of honor stuff here or bf2.

Company of heros?

IMO theres not enough Medieval games around. Especially ones tjhat dont have Mythological crap in them

Spleenus · 6 Apr 2007 at 18:43

Zip said:
Company of heros?

IMO theres not enough Medieval games around. Especially ones tjhat dont have Mythological crap in them

I agree, annoys me when they release medieval games with mythological stuff in them. Especially when they 'succeeded' age of empires II with Age of Mythology!!

GFX707 · 6 Apr 2007 at 18:47

Lolcb said:
Is there not enough games like that already?

Farrrr too many. Especially "band of brothers" strokefests.

SkeeterUK · 6 Apr 2007 at 19:02

Lolcb said:
Is there not enough games like that already?

Not really any ww2 type games in the play style of rome tw series. As in large maps forts (could be citys) with command of groups of tactical units and can have massive (thousands of units) type battles on both sides.

COH is small very small and nothing like rome series games engine and style of play.

Only thing close is sup commander but thats not exactly ww2 or the grouped units type thing.

Zip · 7 Apr 2007 at 06:10

SkeeterPSA said:
Not really any ww2 type games in the play style of rome tw series. As in large maps forts (could be citys) with command of groups of tactical units and can have massive (thousands of units) type battles on both sides.

COH is small very small and nothing like rome series games engine and style of play.

Only thing close is sup commander but thats not exactly ww2 or the grouped units type thing.

But even in WW2 the only times you got 1000s of units in the one place were landings and invasions

SkeeterUK · 7 Apr 2007 at 11:41

Yeah so just do that.

Omaha beach landing rome tw style.

rare · 7 Apr 2007 at 12:10

Stalingrad would be good, but a nightmare to control.

v0n · 7 Apr 2007 at 13:49

It could work. Instead of assassin you could have missions with commando units sneaking into ports, blowing up ships etc or become sniper units... Battling for the cities would work just as well as in medival scenarios, just more advanced, artillery fire instead of catapults, watchtowers would be bunkers and so on...

BloodWolf · 7 Apr 2007 at 13:58

Looks mighty fine!

AndrewP · 7 Apr 2007 at 16:31

Looks good, but what the hell are they playing at with patch 1.2 :rolleyes:

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Gackt · 7 Apr 2007 at 17:16

Oho, this looks sexy. As if MEIITW wasn't sexy enough.

philstanbridge · 7 Apr 2007 at 18:49

Looks pretty good BUT I want them to fix Total War II first! I'm not entirely sure why they pulled the 1.2 patch - but I suppose the good news is that this new episode isn't due out until well into 2007 is it? Sounds to me like they are putting plenty of time aside for this.