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PC Gamer (US) October 2006 has just featured this in its huge 'RTS Revolution' article. An article covering eleven games that will change the face of RTS forever.

Bob Smith - Project Director

Devoting extra effort to create soldiers that look like individual people was an obvious next step in improving the visuals of the franchise.

The effects of this greater detail is all about immersion and will help make the world seem more real and less like a video game.

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I am really looking forward to this game, while I wont say I built my computer with this game in mind I won't lie that it was in the back of my mind, if I cant run it on high settings I give up basically oh yes, and this is my system AMD 4200 X2 @ 2.65 Ghz, 2 Gig RAM, GeForce 7900 GTX

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Yay the legal demo is out!

And I was right, if you can play Rome at high graphics you can play Medieval 2 at atleast medium. Great game and I will definately buy the retail :)

this is a must buy.the total war series is THE ######.^_^ now lets hope they havent changed too much like those monkeys did with GRAW pc! hehe.

im REALLY looking forward to this.it will be like xmas eve :D

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this is a must buy.the total war series is THE ######.^_^ now lets hope they havent changed too much like those monkeys did with GRAW pc! hehe.

im REALLY looking forward to this.it will be like xmas eve :D

Ah yes, you played RTW Alexander, right?! :thumbsup:

Didn't try that one, tho I have Rome and Barbarian Invasion :)

Is alexander any good Willie?

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this is a must buy.the total war series is THE ######.^_^ now lets hope they havent changed too much like those monkeys did with GRAW pc! hehe.

im REALLY looking forward to this.it will be like xmas eve :D

Ah yes, you played RTW Alexander, right?! :thumbsup:

Didn't try that one, tho I have Rome and Barbarian Invasion :)

Is alexander any good Willie?

alexander was a bit of a letdown for me since I just play the total war games in multiplayer, it had no new maps and only 4 playable factions, where of 2 where severely underpowered so the games got really limited to 2 factions.It was fun for quite a few games, some entertaining new units :)

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The world map is an updated version of Rome, so expect atleast great graphics ;)

And remember that this demo is a pre-beta (I think). This is the demo that was given to the US PCG subscribers before everyone else. Unfortenately the demo got uploaded at various warez sites and CA had to release the public demo earlier than planned. This demo is not as optimezed as the retail (according to CA).

Anyway, it's been said that CA will release another demo with another battle (!) and the demo will not require SSE2 as this demo requires.

BTW, here is the system requirements, check out the hard drive requirement :rolleyes:

Minimum System Requirements:

English version of Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP.

Celeron 1.8GHz Pentium 4® (1500MHz) or equivalent AMD® processor.

512MB RAM.

8x Speed DVD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers.

11.0 Gigs of uncompressed free hard disk space.

100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers.

100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers.

DirectX® 9.0c.

128MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 1 support and the latest drivers.

Must be 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible.

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11 Gigs, cough*gag*choke*blarg glad I am getting 500 GB of storage space for Christmas.

Another battle eh? Yay, thats all I can say, I can only play Agincourt and that other one so many times. I assumed that the strat map would be basically the same, but I hear lots of things about better diplomacy, cooler assasins etc.

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The recent leaked demo earlier this month would not run on some AMD XP processors. (sheesh with that and GRAW not running on my graphics card i'm out of luck these days)

This new demo is called the 'Gold demo'. Anyone know if it will run on us AMD old timers. it says P4 1,7 and AMD equivilant and i have an AMD XP 2.4 ????

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yeah i finally found a download site that was a decent speed and just gave it a go.

I had it on full everything except shadows and anti stropic or whatever and at 1600 1200 and it ran ok.

I found the units in RTW much easier to distinguish. The Euro knights all look alike and the clashes are a bit more chaotic than in RTW.

it looks nice and all that but i'd call this an upgrade to RTW rather than a next generation.

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Yeah, I agree with the unit thing, something about the knights just make it so I can't focus on single people. Its hard to tell the difference between english and french knights at the battle of Agincourt, instead of big bright colors like in Rome, they are all just shiny metal things.

I have thought that all TW games are just upgrades of the one before, none have ever really felt like a new game to me. Just feels like they made the graphics better, and made a few tweaks.

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Yeah but there is a shockingly good difference between MTW and RTW. The graphics jump between RTW and M2TW is just polish though.

That's not really a bad thing as the RTW engine still looks great. They handed off M2TW to the B team in Aus and i think it's obvious that they are working on the next big jump which will take some time, either that or they are having their energies drained by redundant console development just like OpFlash did.

Yeah the knights have the same effect that a zebras stripes do to lion. Just all one mess and it's hard to see individual actions. Still, it's really nice to see the RTW engine in a totally Medieval setting. I got as much joy from RTW because of the culture and history i learned as i did from the game play. It will be great to faff around with the different powers and learn new stuff about the specifics of their armies of the day.

Before RTW a roman soldier was just a bloke with a shield and a little sword who fought in an organized block. Now after playing it for a few years i know the difference between all the differing infantry units etc, he he and i can see when a roman in a movie about Jesus is wearing armour that wasn't introduced until a hundred years after etc. That's pretty cool. Not many games educate that much.

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