Buy Cheap Medieval II: Total War - Kingdoms PC Keys & Digital Downloads expansion

Great strategy game for its time. It is still a good game to this day, but it has clearly aged. The management of your cities for example canGreat strategy game for its time. It is still a good game to this day, but it has clearly aged. The management of your cities for example can be incredibly painful when you have a lot of cities.

Adds more depth and content to what was already a stellar game. Simply brilliant and still one of my 'go to' games. Replayability is hugeAdds more depth and content to what was already a stellar game. Simply brilliant and still one of my 'go to' games. Replayability is huge and the extra campaigns and factions round out a fascinating and absorbing look at this turbulent time in world history. You will not be disappointed especially if you loved the original game. Nothing really new here just lots of great additional content. Enjoy!

Great, just great. Improves the original game a lot. And there are 4 whole campaigns! Each one is really unique so you won't get bored. ThereGreat, just great. Improves the original game a lot. And there are 4 whole campaigns! Each one is really unique so you won't get bored. There are also plenty of new units.

Total War: Kingdoms gets an 8 from me for 2 reasons. While the devs hold back improvements to make more money from expansions and sequels in Total War: Kingdoms gets an 8 from me for 2 reasons. While the devs hold back improvements to make more money from expansions and sequels in secrecy, and 2nd, for playing it safe and copying a safe formula from other games that already successfully introduced sea warfare in games like Sea Dogs, Age of Sails, BB, VC, Rise and Fall, etc... to their upcoming game. There isn't any new elements to Total War: Kingdoms, because pretty much any contents into Kingdoms are from Rome: Total War. More paint, more scripts, more variety of units, more land to conquer, but all is easily added with the editor. The combat system remains the same as in Rome. AI is still buggy as usual when you watch a battle unfolds before you. You still can observe that the cavalry or even the infantry has a "rigid" behaviour of catching up to the enemy before the final slaughter in which there's a lack of cohesiveness into the mechanics. Also, when you observe one of your units pursuing a spread out enemy unit instead of being close and in formation, that's when you truly see where the game has gone down the drain... It's an awful feeling to see your enemy make a successful escape (just because your units cannot individually spread out to make a final blow to the enemy as they tend to reform themselves somehow, very poor AI) while your own units waste their breath chasing them to the edge of the battle map thus having to fight them again at a later time. Therefore, the devs never improved this engine even after Rome: Total War as they claimed. Definitely not a buy in future games from them if there is little to no changes to the AI behaviour. Those who gave a 10, increase your medication.

I'm giving this expansion a 0 in protest! I was really looking forward to playing the multiplayer campaign hotseat with my brother only I'm giving this expansion a 0 in protest! I was really looking forward to playing the multiplayer campaign hotseat with my brother only to find that when it comes to a fight the attacking player only gets to control his/her side. The defending player has to put his/her troops in the hands of the A.I. As you can imagine this is not acceptable and makes the campaign multiplayer useless!

There's almost no reason not to mount your horse and charge through the doors of PC World, beheading the security guard with a Zweihander and screaming blood-oaths as you enter your pin number, to get hold of a copy of Kingdoms. Only the weak will not be buying this expansion pack, and frankly, the weak are there to be trampled.

True, there are some surprises in the way the new campaigns play out but, dog warriors and Greek fire aside, Medieval 2 fans will be in very familiar territory here.

The problem with all these things which have been coded to create historical semi-realism is that it creates a limit of the tech-tree they can climb.

Options like the hotseat multiplayer turn out being a massive waste of time. Lastly, the expansion doesn't integrate very well with Medieval II, with each campaign operating like a stand-alone, multi-part, Total War scenario.