Medieval 2 : Total War

 I've somewhat convinced myself that frills and noveltys will take priority over gameplay and balancing yet again, i'd of given up night battles, hordes and rebellions in BI for a game which gripped me like MTW did.

 MTW didnt need state of the art graphics and stunning attention to detail to keep me addicted for years on end, RTW had the potential to be incredible, possibly even the greatest game for many a year, but failed quite spectacularly. I see little reason why MTW2 for all its cool screenshots will be much different. Lets remember here that the pics we see are almost always of extreme circumstances the player will never actually experience in-game.

 I mean how often do you have enormous night-battles filled with drama and excitement like the intro to BI displays? i've yet to have even 1 night battle, nevermind like what it shows in the intro.

 Remember the intro to RTW? how cool did it look when you saw hundreds of legionary cavalry charge out of the woods into thousands of Gallic infantry? i'd be amazed if anybody had had a battle even half as dramatic as that, nevermind had a PC able to play it.

 Yeah yeah im being pessimistic but I expect something good for my �39,95, i'm pretty pissed off at being so badly letdown by RTW and BI.

 I seriously hope i'm wrong, it is very early for me to level such scathing criticism on a game that is far from being out, but the 2 previous installments have left me with little confidence.

It did happen in India

 Alot of things they need to sort out to make a decent SP mode to be honest, if the same problems persist that plague RTW then trying to get together a MP campaign is pointless and much needed time taken away from making the SP game actually playable.