El Psycho Diablo 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2006 I know we've got a few Total War fans here, right? CA announced the next in the series - Medieval 2. The first game was running on the same engine that Shogun was, and looks fairly primitive today. This one's going to be using an upgraded version of Rome's engine, and the system requirements are basically the same. Official Site Rome was a both a downgrade and an upgrade from MTW, personally. It looked prettier, but lacked the depth the earlier game had. Anyway, there will be at least 10,000 person battles this time, and no more "clone" soldiers - they're going to be different from each other. It's also a longer campaign this time around, from 1080 to 1530. At least 21 playable factions, which is good news. They're considering upping the limit of factions to at least 30, which would help the modders out tremendously. Faction list: England, France, Scotland, Holy Roman Empire, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Milan, Venice, Papal States, Sicily, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Byzantium, The Turks, Egypt, The Moors, The Mongols, The Tumurids, The Aztecs. Best of all, the event movies are back from Shogun. So if your assassin takes someone out, you'll get to see it. The religion system's also back (Catholic, Orthodox, Islam, Pagan), which means you'll be able to declare Crusades, or even get one of your priests elected to be Pope. *cackles* IGN Interview Check out some of these screenshots, too. Screenshot Gallery Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conspiracy_Victim 0 Report post Posted January 30, 2006 Yeah I've saw it on the Total War webpage when I was patching Rome TW last night. I'm going to need to upgrade my video card and my memory (only have 256 megs). For some reason RTW isn't working anymore. Pissing me off. I stomped everyone with the Julii and was about ready to start a Greek Cities or Macedonian campaign. Went to upgrade the drivers on my video card (GeForce 2 MX/MX 400) and ended up getting a page fault error. Went back to the old settings and now it won't work. I'm getting frustrated. ANYWAY, I'm looking forward to Medieval 2. Crusades a plenty, suppressing the heretics, and conquering Europe is always good clean fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
El Psycho Diablo 0 Report post Posted January 30, 2006 Try asking the folks at the twcenter.net forums. They've helped me when my game was messing up. It shouldn't release until Fall, so there's some time to do upgrading. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2006 At the risk of going off topic, how's Spartan Total Warrior? I know the same folks are responsible for Spartan and the rest of the Total War series. However, PC strategy games are far beyond my scope of interest. Supposedly Spartan is more like a console hack 'n slash, though. Was going to rent it today, but the blurbs on the back weren't flattering. One referred to it as the most "promising action game" since God of War. Which sounds like a preview blurb. The other blurb was from Game Informer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
muzz 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2006 This should be awesome. I always hoped they would go back and re-do Medieval on Rome's engine. You're right about Medieval having more depth, and combining it with the new engine, you can't lose. And those screenies look fantastic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
