Medieval II: Total War

Medieval II: Total War brings us catholicism, and lots of it. He dictates war and money in this latest game in the Total War series, but is there more than a new veneer to the game?

Six years and four games down the line, it's slightly terrifying that no serious rival to Total War's scale and depth double-whammy has yet emerged. The time to strike is now, however. Though without question still the king of strategy hill, Medieval II shows the first signs of the complacency that an undisputed lead so often leads to in sport, politics, rabbit-versus-tortoise footraces or whatever. It's the last Total War, Rome, with the volume way up and some particularly effective plaster over almost every crack, but nevertheless unavoidably very similar. And this is not necessarily a bad thing.

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