Description Set in a fantastical medieval world where small Kingdoms struggle for supremacy in a chaotic land of knights, and demons, you are the ruler of a new kingdom, born from the ashes of a once mighty realm. To resurrect this realm to its former glory you must forge order out of chaos by uniting the fragmented lands into a single, mighty empire under the rule of one warrior king - you.
Summary: This game is not very good.. The graphics are the worst I've seen in a long time. The battles go so slowly, and the enemies are so simple. The camera takes forever to get it where you want it, and swivels unnecessarily. All your peasants do is run around when attacked. At least they go back to work when the enemy is gone. That is one of the good features. Another good feature is the sound. The characters have repetitive, yet funny sayings and authentic accents. Overall this game gets 2 out of 5 stars in my book.
Summary: This game was a completely terrible experience. I spent about 2 hours trying to figure out how to stop the game from immediately crashing. Eventually I uninstalled and decided to just play without the patched version (the patch made the game impossible for me to play).
I was finally able to get the game to actually play (after disabling all my sound drivers, uninstalling all DVD software, and removing all video codecs I had) and was sorely disappointed. On my high speed system the game ran at under 1 frame per second.
I decided to not waste my time figuring out how to fix yet another bug in their software, which would more than likely involve formatting my entire PC.
It looked fun, but if you have PC that is not outdated do not attempt to play it. The older your machine the more likely the game will run on your computer.
As a side note, this is the first game I've ever had difficulty installing. This coming from experience ranging all the way back to WarCraft(1) years and years ago, to WarCraft 3 a few months ago. :)
Summary: The game actually ran very well for me, I thought i was a good game until i beat the campaign, i thought the game would go on, but it didn't. Am i mistaken or is there only 1 campaign?? If some one knows the answer please tell me!
Rating Reviewed by: David Nicholls(Unregistered User)
Review Date November 10, 2002
Overall Rating 3 of 5
Review NaN of 25
, from NC
Price Paid:
$40.00
from Dragon.ca
Summary: I must be one of the few to have this game work perfectly. Iv only experienced crashes about 3 times of all the hours of gameplay Ive gotten from it. Ran sluggish on the 750, but quite well on the 1600. The menus and interface wasn't polished like it should have been, the mini map was essentially useless, and some of the units were quite unbalanced. However, I found the game quite enjoyable and have had a blast with it. Ive been keeping up with the games forums, and am hoping that Warrior Kings: Battles is going to be the game that the original should have been. Theyre adding alot of features and polish that was left out. Some blame the publishers, some the developers, whoever it was, they allowed a potentially great game to be ruined by sporadic bugs, bad pathfinding, lack of skirmish mode and a half-done interface. If it works for 10 bucks then youve done well, otherwise keep tabs on USER feeback when the new Battles comes out after the new year, if its done right it will definitely be worth having.
Summary: I can sum up this game in two words: It SUCKS!!! This game is one of the most frustrating experiences that a person can have in the comfort of their own home. Nothing seems to work correctly on the thing, and it slowed my machine to a crawl. I'll be the first to admit that my PC is fast becoming middle of the road at best, but I was still able to play Medieval:Total War without slowdown, even through 3D battles involving 2000 troops on the field at a time. I get into the 3rd mission of this piece of crap and by the time I've got 40 units on the board I can barely move my cursor without feeling like I'm inching a piece of lead around. I hate this game, and am glad I only payed $10.00 for it, because I still feel like I got ripped off even at that price. If you're reading this, and have not bought this game yet, I recommend that you disregard all the reviews that talk this thing up, because those people have obviously never played any great RTS games. If you have lots of time to kill waiting for a junky game to load, and to try to fix all the bugs that are in it, then I would suggest buying it, but otherwise, steer clear.
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