Medieval II: Total WAR!!!!
 

http://pc.ign.com/articles/682/682409p1.html
ENJOY!

While few specific details of the game have been revealed, Creative Assembly states that players will lead their armies across the war-scarred battlefields of Europe and the Holy Land before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to arrive in the New World to do battle with the Aztec Empire.

As excited as I am about this game....that scares the shit out of me.

S W E E T !

Boo, where's Shogun 2: Total War :(

Holy Shit the screen shots look unreal, can you image 10,000 units on the battlefield at the same time in this much detail............Definitely a must buy for me.

Dont know which system can run that puppy adequately.

I don't know, I always thought R:TW ran rather well all things considered, on some lower end systems the loading times were a bit more noticable though.

Astonishing graphics makes me happy 1 day.

Great gameplay makes me happy 1 year.

Rant. I need Europa Universalis 3

Don't have time to look at the link but is this an "upgrade" to MTW using the RTW engine? I had thought that RTW kinda didn't work well at all.

Concur. There's some things I liked about RTW, there's some things I didn't. But Rome never really captured the absolute fanaticism I had with MTW. MTW still remains the game I played the absolute most of...ever. (And that's topping Master of Orion, X-Com, and Civ). Rome...lacked something.

Here's hoping they sort of mesh ideas. And dear god, bring back Glorious Acheivements and don't turn it into just a "kill everybody" game.

I think I just creamed in my pants...

I agree that Rome lacked something. I liked it well enough, and even got the expansion, but still. I played a lot more M:TW than R:TW. That said, I still think that EU2 and CK have the entire TW genre licked because the campaign game in TW is simply too easy and too simplistic.

-Anxiety

Heh, I still can't find CK to purchase. Been looking for that game for freakin' ages.

Linky

i will buy this game and play if for 4 days straight. i must have this game.

when is it supposed to come out?

Its coming out next winter. Just in time for my 23rd birthday! Perfect gift

Maybe now we can playout George Martins Fire and Ice books Lanisters vs Starks etc.

The graphics engine, yes. Dunno about the campaign, but probably.

I just read an article on this in PC Gamer. Looks pretty sweet. You can choose to build up a settlement as either a city or castle. City = exonomic, Castle = military. Castles can have more than 1 wall (mentioned 3 walls). With the pope, you have some influence on who becomes elected Pope.

Each fighter will be a sepereate entity. IOW, you have a unit of 40 swordsman (or however many). Each will act and even look unique. It won't be a unit of 40 clones. They kill someone, and then look around for who to attack next (or defend if someone is coming to them). There are a ton of animations, too. The described watching a swordsman kill someone and kicking the corpse to free his sword.

And the usual rhetoric of vastly improve AI all around.

I deplore these talks of unprovoked terrorist attacks. These castles, and the people who risked their lives to settle them, should have the right to exist in peace.

This is the talk of Lucifer. Those brave souls who have dedicated their lives to the service of Holy Spain shall be visiting you and ensuring you are not tainted by the devil. We must see to it that all of God's land is kept pure.

Put him...in The Comfy Chair.

Good god, my graphics card is already crying...

The jury finds the defendant "Not Guilcup".