In the game's 'Grand Campaign,' you will lead of one of Europe's fledgling nations to total domination of Europe, Asia, and the New World. Moreover, the game's combat system, with its truly epic-feeling battles, may be the best RTS battle system seen in PC gaming to date. Sporting a real-time strategy combat engine hidden inside a sedate, turn-based strategy shell, M2:TW does both genres well enough to be good games in their own right, making the combination of the two all-but-irresistible. Brilliant, bloody, deep, and engaging, Medieval II: Total War simply has no equal among strategy games in terms of sheer variety of play.
