Definitely get it, but install the Stainless Steel 6.4 mod right away. The base game is okay, that mod is probably the best total war experience I've had. #2. Lukecis Mar 12, 2016 @ 6:27am. rome tw 1 and medieval 2 are the best games in the series in my opinion so yes its worth getting. #3.
Medieval is a incredible game although its age is starting to show. Mods try to remedy this with better looking cities, nicer UI and a larger campaign map, but even i still go back to vanilla with some slight tweaks rather than the full on conversion mods. It's absolutely worth playing but it has one of the best mods of any game.
Brilliant, bloody, deep, and engaging, Medieval II: Total War simply has no equal among strategy games in terms of sheer variety of play. Sporting a real-time strategy combat engine hidden inside a sedate, turn-based strategy shell, M2:TW does both genres well enough to be good games in their own right, making the combination of the two all-but-irresistible.
100% worth the experience. Before you play anything modded, play a completely vanilla campaign in short to medium length, just to get the feel and quirks of the authentic experience. From there on, you can get the feel on a few janky mechanics/bugs that plagued the original Medieval 2.
Rome 2 first then any other total war. Shogun 2 is almost perfect but Rome 2 is simplier, pretty ez and better for beginners. The main problem with Medieval 2 is a different camera control after the new total wars and the feeling of an empty and flat world map, after the beautiful, voluminous modern ones. There are no problems with the rest of
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