An Exciting Addition to the Total War Series.
The game is just plain fun for those who are familiar to the Total War series, but might need a bit time to get used to for new comers.
The campaign map looks very similar to that of Rome, with higher resolution textures. The animation of the units have improved drastically and the fighting looks more realistic. There are some glaring bugs though like the Passive A.I. and just siege A.I in general, but those will be addressed in a patch coming soon.
The battles are a lot more exciting and intense than that of Rome Total War and the previous ones. Your men take more casualties and you rarely get a sweeping victory when fighting against even odds.
The music is great but not as memorable as the first Medieval music, but definetely has more variety of music. There are different victory and defeat musics and location sensitive music as well.
Multiplayer hasn't really changed much unfortunately and the promised multiplayer enhancements are no where to be found.
Pick up the game if you are a Total War veteran or if you like large realtime epic scale battles with a good involving turn based strategy campaign.
This is a good addition to the Total War collection.