Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms Expansion Pack - PC

i really loved this game. i had about a week of summer vacation dedicated to winning all the 4 campaigns on very diffficulty. i would say two thumbs up except one problem. you cant unlock alot of factions. in the americas, you unlock 4 to 5 factions which is cool, and the teutonic order you get two, which is alright, but then brittiana and the crusades you dont get any. they are all unlocked at the beggining. for me, i love to unlock the hardest faction to play as and win but there is no way i can do that now. overall a 5 star but they couldve added more factions.

I have more than got my money's worth from the original. Will I with this release? Perhaps. As others have noted, it really is a collection of mods - but then I don't do multiplayer anymore, so poor functionality in this respect doesn't bother me.I had a lot of difficulty installing. It kept on getting hung up trying to install patch 1.3 saying the patch 1.2 had "modified the files" (well DUH!). I tried doing a clean install of the original game and had the same result. These processes took a lot of time and produced a lot of frustration. Eventually I had do do another clean install, then install 1.2 & 1.3 manually - then the individual campaigns installed correctly using the install engine. as usual, the official sites were of zero value in troubleshooting. I reduced the rating to reflect these problems.So far, I have nearly completed the Crusades campaign as the Kingdom of Jerusalem. At medium difficulty for game and battle it hasn't presented much of a challenge. I still have issues with the attack ratings of some of the units - armoured knights and quality archers should DEVASTATE light infantry, but they don't. Historically, a light infantry man (not a spearman) had about as much chance of killing an armoured knight as a guy throwing rocks has at disabling an M1 Abrams tank. While we're on that topic, just because a knight's horse got killed didn't mean he was out of it or dead - he simply fought on foot, and quite effectively too - but this is not reflected in the game.The bottom line: is it worth $29.95 plus shipping? Yes. Buy it. I look forward to trying some of the harder factions and campaigns.

If you've played Medieval Total War II into the ground and want some more excitement, this is the perfect product to get. As shown on the box, it adds three more campaigns to the game. All three are pretty good and kept me entertained for a while. The scope isn't as large as the grand campaign, but it's still a lot of fun. The pros and cons are almost identical to the regular game. The graphics and gameplay are compelling while the AI is lack luster.Overall, I would pick this up if you want to squeeze out a bit more time from Medieval Total War II.

I say 50/50 because as i do like the new units,features and new mini campaigns i was not happy that the new units and features were not included in the original campaign.I also did not like the fact that as a European you have a starting point in the Americas instead of playing the Spanish,French or English in the original campaign and at some point sail over seas to form a colony.I feel the game makers just took to many short cuts on this expansion.This could have been much better.So now i'll just wait untill some modder makes it better game mod like Rome Totalrealism that was modded over Rome Totalwar which turned out to be a much better game than the original from activision.

I'm a medieval total war freak, wore out MTW-I and II; got this to keep going. So far only worked thru the English campaign as the English. Looks like there's about 3-5 years of work to go thru all 4 Kingdoms and play the different sides.Hoping for MTW-III by then. On my Wii-U-V with the Minority Report holographic surround screen with Bose speakers.Anyway, worth the $10 or so if you have a MTW-II player in your life who hasn't got this already.

The Medieval Total War series always was, and continues to be one of the best RTS in the industry. I have no issues with the platform.What I do have issues with is the false and misleading advertising that surrounded this expansion.If you really want 4 new mods, of no greater value than those the community freely develops, then you should buy this expansion. If you crave the additional features, units, skill trees, etc then you should buy this expansion.Unfortunately, a great many of us thought this expansion actually provided true multiplayer campaigns. IT DOES NOT.PLEASE READ THE CHANGED PRODUCT DESCRIPTION IN THE AMAZON PRODUCT REVIEW!This expansion affords you a "hot seat" which is basically various players using the same computer. Even this concept is poorly conceived as it turns a real time strategy game - valued for its dynamic gameplay - into a turn based dorkdom where the various players have to log into and out of the game. Did the people who thought this up even know how to turn on a computer? What a rip-off. This intentionally misleading approach renders what could have been an average expansion into one of the greatest disappointments in computer gaming since the days of DOS.Last spring I marked this as a wish list item because it advertised "a true multiplayer campaign mode". I don't know at what point the brain drain eminating from the purchase of CA by SEGA borked this title, but the result is clear... a mediocre expac of MODs only, combined with broken scope and false promises. This is a horrible leap backwards in game concept. You might have to hotbunk as a Sailer on a destroyer or a sub, but do you really want to on your PC at home?So buy this if you want to pay for mods, buy this if crave more skill trees and unit types, and buy this if you want to see a trully dis-evolutionary move in gaming...a bizare attempt to turn a computer game into a table top game. Simply amazing in it's ability to be miles wide of the mark. As the entire computer gaming market moves towards ever enhanced multiplayer abilities, SEGA moves MTW2 in the opposite direction...It's simply breathtaking in its stupidity. I'd ask for a refund, but I've already opened the box...

don't know what it is got me hooked,cheesy as hell i guess.

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