Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms Expansion Pack

List Price: $29.95 Discount Price: $13.25

Features:

• 4 new campaigns-Britannia, Teutonic, Crusades, and New Worlds
• 110 new units, 13 new factions, 9 new agents, 5+ new multiplayer scenarios
• New technology trees governed by religion
• 60+ new territories across four new maps
• 20 new custom maps, 1v1 hottseat multiplayer campaign mode , Control multiple armies in a single battle.

Accessories:
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Customer Reviews:

Medieval 2: Kingdoms - Best Expansion Ever [Posted on 2007-11-07]
The "Kingdoms" expansion pack brought back the depth of historical realism of Medieval: Total War 2, as it's historical emphasis seemed to have slightly faded from the original Medieval: Total War. An excellent expansion with four seperate campaigns that take you deep into the history and ambience of their specific region and era. Excellently designed and researched, while losing none of the excitement in play. I highly recommend this expansion to anyone who appreciates any of the total war games.

Medieval II Kingdoms review [Posted on 2007-12-08]
They make some decent changes to the game in this expansion. They fix assassin's so they are useful again, but priests seem to have a lower success rate against heretics. The different kingdoms campaigns are difficult but interesting. If you liked the first Medieval, this is a nice companion to it.

Go Aztecs! [Posted on 2008-01-14]
Ok, so if you're even considering buying this then you already know of the greatness that is Total War. Mind you, I am completely biased. I think the Total War series is the best wargame/ strategy series ever created. They constantly improve on their games and surprise me.

The England, Crusade, and Teutonic Crusade Campaigns all rate as 4 to 4.5 stars to me and dont really give us anything too new other than being able to play fun new factions such as the Irish and The pagan Lithuanians.

The real gem for this expansion pack is the Americas Campaign though! It is truly well done (5 stars).

The Armies (in particular, the Aztecs and Mayans) are the most colorful this series has seen. The landscapes range from jungle to desert to mountain passes. The jungle battles contain the best scenary the series has yet presented (though fighting the Chichimecs ("Dog People") in a cactus filled desert is great too!).

I have played all the factions in the new game (multiple times) but continually find myself going back to the Americas Campaign again and again (for a challenge, play as the Tlaxcallans on "hard" settings).

Overall it comes down to this; if you are a diehard fan of the series, you will most likely love this expansion, in particular the Americas and the Teutonic campaigns, if you are a casualy vistor to the Total War series, this game will probably not be worth your time. Stick to your World of Warcraft.

Go Aztecs!!!

More of the same (but still good) [Posted on 2008-02-20]
This is kind of like 4 expansion packs in 1: The New World, Britian, the Baltic, and the Middle East. They're really aren't any major changes to the basic play of the game but it's kind of cool to have new maps to fight on.

The New World was a little disappointing; I thought that the Spanish (with gunpowder) should have more of an impact when fighting the natives. Britian was kind of fun (the Norse are the toughest to play, IMO). The Baltic has the Teutonic Order, who has cool units but they're tought to play because they're surrounded by enemies. The Crusades were pretty cool too, especially since the Mongols are less devastating that in MTW2 (although the Crusader states have things a little too easy, IMO).

I didn't have any problems with installing or with crashing. Like with MTW2 in general, I wish they had put more work into developing the mechanics rather than focusing mainly on the graphics. Overall, it's not great but it's worth the money.

Recommended.

Good Strategy Game [Posted on 2008-05-16]
Its a great game and a good expansion for Medieval II that adds a great many things to the original one.

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