Customer Reviews

Medieval: Total War Gold Edition

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(4)

 

 

Activision and SEGA, who created the Gold Edition made a major error with this product. When downloading the 2.01 patch to play Multiplayer, the game does not recognize the Gold Edition as a Medieval Total War or Viking Invasion game (since this is a 3-CD set) and will not install. An unofficial patch has been created, but you will never be able to play Multiplayer with this "Gold Edition". I mailed SEGA/Activision with a complaint about this failed product and their failure to fix the error, and I was supplied with another copy, which was the Medieval Total War: Battle Collection" copy. I do not advise purchasing this error-ridden product.

When I bought this, I was expecting a respectively hard and involved game. I got what I wanted in full. This is not a game friendly to casual gamers or ones who like uncomplicated games, you can't just pick it up and learn it within minutes, but I don't consider this a fault personally. It is very rewarding once you find out where everything is and know how to use it when. I would venture a guess that I haven't done nearly half of that this offers, and I already think I got more than my money's worth. Everything from a great campaign, to historical battles to custom ones too, it's got everything I wanted and more.
Just an aside, but no, I wasn't paid to write this, I just know what I like. For a game that's going on 7 years old, it is incredibly fun.

I dunno, but it would run 2nd by a short half-head!

Following on from the hugely successful Shogun: Total War (probably the best game ever, by a short half-head) comes this - Medieval: Total War. It keeps the good things from the first edition (Shogun), but doesn't get bogged down in the endless & tedious moving of characters across the strategy board (introduced with Rome, and the follow-up to this game, the aptly titled 'Medieval 2: Total War'), which is where you spend most of your time anyway.

As someone with some knowledge & interest in Medieval history, it's brilliant at allowing you the opportunity to rewrite history. Worried about the Turkish expansion into the Mediterranean? Fine: send dozens of Priests and Bishops in there to convert them all. And if that doesn't work, raise a Crusade and kill them! Problem solved.

But seriously, the combination of having to manage resources on a massive scale, plus the occasional running of a battle in real time is a clear winner, both financially for the developers and entertaining for their customers. If you have an interest in history, or simply want to re-write it to suit yourself, get this game. 10 years on, it's still terrific. Being that age means it will run on most modern laptops without any dramas as well, which is a bonus.

Bottom line: If you don't like this game, you're either mad or boring.

I have played this game for years. Still like it. My old disk was getting worn and intermittent. This new package doesn't require the three disk installation of the old one, and plays every time.

good game! great fun for an older game well worth 20 bucks for a total war fan. had a few problems getting it to work on new win 7 laptop but a quick copy and paste of certian files fixed it in a heartbeat. otherwise works good alot of fun and well worth the money. i would buy it again.

I bought this game a few years back and I've had some really good times with it. There are so many things that are great about it! Yeah it doesn't have really good graphics,and if that's what you're looking for get Medieval Total War 2 which is great as well. If you love medieval warfare,think you're a brilliant general,or just get a great game for your collection you'll really like this! I don't give a hoot about multiplayer so I can't say about that. I love the strategy,and just how realistic it is. I'm still suprised at how much this game has! IT'S SIMPLY ABSOLUTELY GREAT!!!

it is the game for all who love strategy and history. exellent learning about medieval. everybody who like playin strategy have to buy it

This game is awesome for someone into the TBS genre or who likes Strategy games in general! Battles and Campaigns are all historically accurate along with all of the unit/territory/building information! This game has actually helped me with both European and Medieval History courses in the past and I would recommend it to anyone who likes strategy games or european history!

I like games that can keep you playing for hours and hours but still keep you riveted which is hard to do, but this game is so riveting that you will not the time go by.

I was waiting for my flight to take me to germany and had time to kill so I started to play this game, when I looked at my watch it was about 1 in the afternoon and in what seemed like a little bit I looked at my watch again it was 6:30 in the evening I did not notice the time just going flying by.

Now I know their are newer games on the market and I have played some of them but hardley any of them can keep my interest like this game still can, so if you want a game that will fun and a challege then buy this game while you still can.

for the strategy gamer this is a classic. gameplay is great. very deep, every detail was thought of. Personally, i like the viking invasion more. no real faults with the game. I wish the viking invasion map was bigger, or the same map as the original, but its a great alternative. This is an older game, but it is truly a wonderful strategy and epic war game. One of my favorite games, lives up to shogun and more. great game, hard to stop playing of course