Medieval Total War 2 Demo Out

[YorkieBen]

officially this time for those who can play


n.b. dont bother downloading if you have an Athlon XP as it wont run. A 1.5ghz celeron is okay though


www.totalwar.com

available there

[Veles]

It's so cool!

The graphics arn't significantly better (not like the impressive jump from M: TW to R: TW, but then that was 2D unit sprites to 3D units). What I'm really impressed with are the animations. Walking alone looks alot better but the combat animations are awesome (although the fact that the bow-strings don't actually draw looks a little stupid in the cut-scene bits but saying there could be hundereds of archers on-screen at one time I can forgive them for that).

The game doesn't seem to require too much resources either, my rig has a little trouble with R: TW on full settings when there are big armies (due to my dual core CPU I think, since R: TW can only use one and it's a little CPU hungry), although I wouldn't call the sample battles huge, but they're probably about the size of one of my average-large battles. One problem with the demo is you can't change the unit sizes.