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Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms Expansion Pack | 
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| From: Sega of America, Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $4.77
You Save: $15.22 (76%)
New (34) Used (11) from $3.89
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 1410
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Genre: Military and Historical Strategy Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 85221
Model: 85221
UPC: 010086852219
EAN: 0010086852219
ASIN: B000PIRVQI
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed, Orders Ship Within 1 Business Day, Guaranteed Delivery We Will Send Delivery Confirmation
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| 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. |
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Product Description
Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms expands Medieval II: Total War with all-new territories to explore, troops to command and enemies to conquer. It's the most content-rich expansion ever produced for a Total War game, with four new campaigns centered on the British Isles, Teutonic Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Vast tracts of land in the New World are now open to players - and you'll be able to fight or play the Aztecs, Apaches, and Mayans. Kingdoms also offers new multiplayer maps and hotseat multiplayer, allowing players to play one-versus-one campaign games on the same computer. 5+ new multiplayer scenarios 60+ new territories across four new maps 20 new custom maps 1v1 hotseat multiplayer campaign mode Control multiple armies in a single battle. Players - 1 or 2-8 over LAN or Online
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 SecuRom 7 buyer beware! October 14, 2008
Mark Kilczewski (Salem, MA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this expansion when it first came out and couldn't stop playing it. I'm in the process of tracking down which of my games have SecuRom hiding in them. This nasty little trojan doesn't remove itself from your system when you uninstall the game. Well, this has the nastiest version hiding in it. Too bad, I really liked this game. I hope ETW ships without SecuRom hiding in it. I'll have to "Spore" that one too if it does. At least plain MTW2 shipped without it.
 Micro-management of Medieval II's bloated grand campaign August 31, 2008
Andariel Halo (Phenomynouss@hotmail.com is my real e-mail)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like Medieval II Total War... but I believe it is heavily flawed, more so than even Rome Total War.
One of the major issues I had with it was that it tries to cram 500 years of history into ONE campaign, whereas Rome Total War only handled less than 300, and Medieval Total War divided the main campaign into three periods - Early, High, and Late, reflecting the major changes in technology and factions (example, the Ayyubid Sultanate of Salah ad-Din is in the Early period, but did not exist towards the later years, so Medieval II crams all the Egyptian factions into one generic "Egypt" faction, and the same goes with the Seljuqs and the Ottomans).
Their response was to make the game pass at a rapid pace, in which each turn would see two years pass, while characters still only aged at a rate of 6 months per turn.
Medieval II Total War Kingdoms cuts up the campaign into tiny pieces focusing on four major events in Medieval/Enlightenment history, those being the wars over Britannia, the Crusades, the Teutonic Knights in Central and Eastern Europe, and the Spanish voyage to the New World, and war with the Aztecs.
So rather than forcing a sluggish campaign, Kingdoms lets us micro-manage major events in Medieval history that in the base game would be tiny events passing by in a matter of hours.
Not only is the campaign improved with larger, more accurate, and more expansive maps, but the turn system is down to a base 1 year per turn, and a flood of new units is available for each campaign. There is twice as much music in the expansion as there was in the base game.
The expansion pack doesn't do much in the way of changing the game, rather giving you more of the base game, with the ability to focus the campaign on historical events more clearly. You can also play as Native American factions that you couldn't do in the base game.
 On going Saga July 12, 2008
Charles Page (Wausau, WI)
Much has been written already about this expansion pack. My experience with this series is a very positive one. With just the right mix of resource management and tactical skill, both on the large map and in each individual battle, this series is first rate.
A better technology tree and more advanced units to strive for are my only complaints.
Awesome Sequel to an Awesome game June 23, 2008
Beevan (Atlanta GA USA)
Medieval II Total War taken to the next level.... In many ways it is more of the same, but thats not a bad thing in this case.... The only downside is the the Head to Head mode was a rather poor idea and is poorly implemented... but thats ok, it doesn't hurt the game which overall is just plain solid...
Works like a charm of my Mac OS X Leopard Macbook Pro... I run it faster than all my PC friends on my Mac... HA!
Good Strategy Game May 16, 2008
J. Boone
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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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