Full details of those changes can be read here. Score: 4/10 The expansion and it’s affects on Vanilla M2TW (Rebalancing of the Game)Īs previously mentioned, a major rebalancing of units has taken place in Kingdoms and this applies to Vanilla M2TW as well. All the unit rebalancing & fixes in Kingdoms are currently only available to owners of Kingdoms. Patch 1.03 has been released for general use but it is only a patch to ensure compatibility between M2TW & Kingdoms. If CA are going to take an hour out of our lives while we wait for the game to install, it wouldn’t have hurt them to include a few nice screenshots for us to look at to pass the time & stave off tedium. There have been a lot of complaints with issues during installation of the expansion, the length of time it takes and the fact that you don’t get anything other than a rather unexciting looking status bar to look at. If you are starting from scratch, allow at least an hour to do the whole lot. If you have issues installing or running Kingdoms, then you should uninstall Kingdoms, then uninstall M2TW and delete the Sega folder in program files before re-installing M2TW & then Kingdoms. This is very handy because it means there’s no need to download the 613 meg file that is patch 1.02. Kingdoms installation will automatically patch whatever version of M2TW you have up to patch 1.03 and then install the four Kingdoms campaigns.
Installation takes a long time because anybody who has modded M2TW files will need to uninstall the game. You can however play the factions of a particular Kingdoms campaign against the vanilla factions if you select “All” period on either custom or multiplayer battles. First full coverage is of the Teutonic campaign.įirst up, people dreaming of playing Teutonic Knights against the Kingdom of Jerusalem are going to be disappointed because the four campaigns of Kingdoms are effectively four separate programs with four different executable files but CA have effectively given us four expansions for the price of one so we shouldn’t quibble too much. All campaigns have been tested briefly to check everything but full campaign write-ups will wait until all the campaigns are completed.
Note: This review is written in stages as I wanted to play each campaign properly to test the differing gameplay rather than only skim through each campaign. It received 90% ratings from both PC Zone & PC Gamer so lets see how the expansion stands up to some rigorous playtesting by the TWH staff. Medieval 2: Total War Kingdoms was released to great fanfare despite being somewhat upstaged by the announcement of Empire: Total War the previous week.
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