Medieval 2: Total War Kingdoms is Official

[Jason]

<strong>[ Announcement ]</strong>

<p>Looks like the <a href="http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=17957" target="_blank">rumors</a> are true as <a href="http://www.totalwar.com/index.html?page=/us/medieval2/gameinfo/kingdoms/index.html&nav=/us/medieval2/1/4/" target="_blank">Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms</a> has been <a href="http://www.sega.com/games/game_temp.php?game=med2kingdoms&id=hp_news&lid=gp_med2kingdoms&lpos=hp_news" target="_blank">announced by Sega</a>.</p><blockquote><p>Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms is the official expansion to last year&rsquo;s award-winning Medieval II: Total War, presenting players with all-new territories to explore, troops to command, and enemies to conquer.</p><p>Kingdoms is the most content-rich expansion ever produced for a Total War game, with four new entire campaigns centered on expanded maps of the British Isles, Teutonic Northern Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. In Medieval II, players were only given a tantalizing glimpse of South America, but in Kingdoms, vast tracts of land in both North and South America have been opened up for players to conquer. All-new factions from the New World are also now fully playable, including the Aztecs, Apaches, and Mayans.</p><p>Along with the new maps in the Britannia, Teutonic, Crusades, and New World Campaigns, there are 13 new factions to play, over 110 units to control, and 50 building types, adding up to 80 hours of new gameplay. Kingdoms also offers new multiplayer maps and hotseat multiplayer, a first for the Total War series, allowing players to play one-versus-one campaign games on the same computer.</p></blockquote><p>Check out the <a href="http://www.totalwar.com/index.html?page=/us/medieval2/gameinfo/kingdoms/index.html&nav=/us/medieval2/1/4/" target="_blank">official site</a> for screenshots and details on the new campaigns. </p>

 

[whatusername]

Mayans? Were they still around during that time?

 

[Elwro]

I'll be able to recreate one of the great moments of Polish histroy by pwning the Teutonic Knights not only during one battle (as in original MTW2), but during a whole campaign. Cool.

 

[wizard]

Mayans? Were they still around during that time?

There was one civilization that was the combination of Mayans and Toltecs (or Olmecs or something similar; can't remember exactly what it was), that was still alive during the spanish conquest, known as the Mayapan. The true Mayans had already abandoned their cities around the year 900.

Anyway, hopefully this time they'll concentrate on other things than graphics, was little dissapointed that Medival 2 continued to be more of the same in new package.

 

[VasikkA]

Sounds good. I've always thought the colonization of Americas should get its own Total War game. The campaign in Colonization still reigns supreme, all the way from kicking indian ass to fighting for independence. :patriot:

I hope CA takes it easy with the 'greek firethrower' special fantasy units. What next, dragons?