Medieval II: Total War. The best RTS ever made?

[Outlawed]

Being one of the best RTS games in 2006 and continuing to be a great game even though it's almost 2 years old, Medieval II: Total War provides the greatest Real Time experience with the most reference to real life and actual reliance on strategy.

The Total War series has yet to let us down. Through three different iterations and a handful of expansions, the series has consistently delivered some of the most exciting and visually appealing tactical action in any strategy game, historical or otherwise. It should come as no surprise then that the latest in the series, Medieval II: Total War, is an undeniably thrilling strategy experience. ~ IGN.com

Sega outdid themselves with prior games like Medieval: Total War and Rome: Total War and they continued to add to their success with this mind baffling game.

Play heroic battles
Have realistic armies
Play massive battles up to 20 000 or 40 000 depending on your pc's power.
Create strategies and uses terrain for help
Protect your citadels or storm the enemy forts with siege towers, ladders, rams and artillery
Add mods of the Middle East culture including Armenia, Georgia, Ayyubid, Abbasid, Ghazi and much much more.
Add more mods created by fans that add blood, burn texture and make a more realistic experience
Enjoy the expansion pack that allows you to take control of real time heroes and fight real battles with you controlling the armies every move.

Here are some Game Play pictures of the original Medieval II: Total War 1.0.

A siege tower about to unleash it's wrath of soldiers upon the enemy walls in attempt to capture these walls and storm the inner city.


Archers raining arrows upon the far away enemy.


Spanish Conquistadors upon a hill reading a flank attack on the unsuspecting Aztec forces.


Saxons Spearmen creating the famous wall of the Battle of Hastings.


A quick battle of the version 1.0 of M2TW.

Rate this game in your opinion and go buy it because pictures can't show how awesome this is.

PS: This is not a SEGA commercial XD

[Waddle Dee Army]

It is still sub Starcraft. I think Starcraft II is going to be a big disappointment though.

[Outlawed]

Originally Posted by Waddle Dee Army It is still sub Starcraft. I think Starcraft II is going to be a big disappointment though.

Starcraft was epic for it's time and is still fun to play, however the sequel is going to suck in my opinion. Sega fails to disappoint me yet and the mods people come up with only make this game look better.

Q: Would you buy this game?

[Waddle Dee Army]

Originally Posted by Outlawed Starcraft was epic for it's time and is still fun to play, however the sequel is going to suck in my opinion. Sega fails to disappoint me yet and the mods people come up with only make this game look better. Q: Would you buy this game?

I rarely buy real time strategy games because I am terrible at strategy games. Starcraft was the best one so far, but it has several annoying flaws.
1. A limit of 200 units
2. Low level units should not be able to destroy major structures or high end units. Example: Tanks should be immune to low level enemies.
3. Upgrades should be more effective or cheaper.

If another game can be as good and make these improvements, I would think about it.

[Outlawed]

Originally Posted by Waddle Dee Army I rarely buy real time strategy games because I am terrible at strategy games. Starcraft was the best one so far, but it has several annoying flaws. 1. A limit of 200 units 2. Low level units should not be able to destroy major structures or high end units. Example: Tanks should be immune to low level enemies. 3. Upgrades should be more effective or cheaper. If another game can be as good and make these improvements, I would think about it.

For me Starcraft was nice, but definitely not the best because of it's simple mindedness. I mean that works sometimes, but a real RTS I think should have depth as well as reference to real life in order to achieve the effect an RTS game should have. CoC and WiC for example had that, but I prefer Medieval times so that adds a bigger bias to my judgment.

[Waddle Dee Army]

Originally Posted by Outlawed For me Starcraft was nice, but definitely not the best because of it's simple mindedness. I mean that works sometimes, but a real RTS I think should have depth as well as reference to real life in order to achieve the effect an RTS game should have. CoC and WiC for example had that, but I prefer Medieval times so that adds a bigger bias to my judgment.

I think some ideas should be taken from another game. It is an extremely old game, but it had one good idea. Some tasks can only be preformed by certain units. Example: Mines can only be disarmed by a weak unit, but they are needed for this task. It is a good idea that makes games more realistic.

[Outlawed]

Originally Posted by Waddle Dee Army I think some ideas should be taken from another game. It is an extremely old game, but it had one good idea. Some tasks can only be preformed by certain units. Example: Mines can only be disarmed by a weak unit, but they are needed for this task. It is a good idea that makes games more realistic.

I see what you mean.
The thing about Medieval is that I think it has all that.
All other war RTS would say, yeah don't attack archers with Infantry because you will get hurt more, and it doesn't really make a difference. In M2TW it does. You know you can't attack archers with infantry for example because they will wipe you out. You can't attack spearmen with Cavalry because your horses will get knocked out and you will get killed. You can't charge up a hill because your weight will pull you down and your horse/armor will leave you easier to kill. You can't leave your flanks unguarded because if an enemy flanks you there is a chance your moral would drop and your units would flee. I mean the depth of M2TW is the main aspect that pulls me to say what I say about it, added to the awesome graphics and nice Civ. style campaign.

[xylez]

Empire total war is the RTS ever made!

[Outlawed]

Originally Posted by xylez Empire total war is the RTS ever made!

Indeed. I'm buying a new PC to run it on x16 AA =D