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turn-based strategy video game
Medieval II: Total War
By Creative Assembly, released 1 Jan 2006
- Microsoft Windows
- Linux
- macOS
- real-time tactics
What it is
Medieval II: Total War is a strategy game by Creative Assembly, combining turn-based empire management with real-time battles. Players command armies, expand across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and reach the New World while managing cities, recruiting and training troops, and using diplomacy. Battles take place on 3D fields and can feature up to 10,000 troops. The Definitive Edition includes DLC and feature updates, including the Kingdoms expansion. That expansion adds four campaigns set across expanded maps of the British Isles, Teutonic Northern Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. The campaign setting includes the Crusades, religious conflict and dealings with the Inquisition and the Pope. The game is listed for Windows, Linux and macOS, with the Steam version also available on those platforms. Steam features include single-player, multiplayer, trading cards and Family Sharing.
What players like, and what they don't
- Combines empire management and real-time battles.
- Battles can feature up to 10,000 troops.
- Definitive Edition includes DLC and feature updates.
- Kingdoms adds four campaigns.
- Listed for Windows, Linux and macOS.
- The listed genres include turn-based strategy and real-time tactics.
- The described setting spans several regions and campaigns.
Who it suits
It suits strategy players who want to manage an empire as well as command large battles. The Definitive Edition’s four Kingdoms campaigns add settings across several regions for players seeking more campaign content.
Medieval II: Total War pairs territory and city management with large-scale battlefield command. Its Definitive Edition includes the Kingdoms campaigns and the game’s listed DLC and feature updates.
