Medieval: Total War Critic Reviews

No other game can be properly compared to it.

Exceeds its predecessor in almost every way... A fantastic historical strategy game.

An uncompromising game in its presentation, scope, and challenge level. It's well-made, intricate, functional, and deadly, much like the weaponry of that distant time.

Strategy game of the year, perhaps of the millennium.

The scope is magnificent, and like "Shogun: Total War," conflict has really taken on this type of epic feeling for me.

Almost perfectly executed, there is so much to depth to Medieval Total War that only years of play can adequately discover. But take our word for it, this is a cracker!

An absolute must-buy to any fan of turn-based strategy or real-time strategy. The mechanics are sound, the atmosphere is spot-on, and the scale of the battles is truly epic.

An extraordinarily engaging gaming experience more suited to experienced gamers.

Best of all, AI plays the game well and playing as different kingdoms and religions makes for a different game each time you load it up.

One of the truly rare games which induces that special kind of gaming exhaustion caused by sleeping two or three pitiful hours at night (while you dream about the game) before getting up to do it all over again.

The tactical battle sequences have also been improved, giving players a wonderful war simulation promising months of gory action.

A pleasant surprise and proves to be one of the best strategy games on the market, with vast and epic battles complete with an impressive system that goes ten times further than the most.

If you want real time strategy with more teeth you cannot ignore this.

I called "Shogun" the closest thing I had seen to a perfect game, well Medieval: Total War improves on that achievement and delivers one of, if not the best strategy gaming out there.

A very deep game, one that is bound to excite fans of Shogun along with anyone looking for another reason to stay up really late playing a turn-based strategy game.

A well-conceived and intelligent game...The idea of total war is taken to another level, as Medieval: Total War clearly shows that total war is not all about brute force - quite the contrary.

Achieves that rare quality of having something for nearly all strategy gamers, and most will find a lot to like in it, for a very long time.

The game AI is quite good, and regardless of the difficulty level you select, you will find this to be a challenging game.

We criticized "Shogun" for a few quirks in the interface, but generally it was very clean. Now, those same quirks have bit its sequel in the ass with a vengeance.

Although the strategic aspect of the game is merely average, this game can be recommended based on the strength of its incredible real-time battles.