Kingdoms is simply put, the greatest expansion ever released for any game, ever. Its absolutely massive, its incredibly fun, and its improved upon Medieval II in every way possible. The music is MUCH better, the unit variety is way more interesting, the AI is many times more intelligent and fun to play with, and the amount of added content is just amazing, not to mention way less buggy. 4 new campaigns allow you to jump into the fun like never before with an obscene amount of new content; you'll be playing for hours and hours, and your interest will never wane. The gameplay has been switched up quite a bit with all sorts of added catches and historical events that make the campaigns all the more intriguing. I've spent around 15 hours on the Britannia campaign and I feel as though I've just barely scratched the surface on just that one map; its difficult to comprehend that this is just 1 of 4!
Buy this expansion, do yourself a favor, you'll never spend a better 30 bucks. For half the price of most video games, you can purchase over 10 times as much content found in any of those titles. Creative Assembly really deserves some recognition for this expansion.
(only con, Hotseat is a disappointment, I really want true multiplayer, over LAN at the least)
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