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| PLATFORM: | Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98 |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Activision |
| ESRB RATING: | Teen |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 047875322677 |
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Customer Reviews of Medieval: Total War Viking Invasion Expansion Pack
The best strategy game i've ever played This game was great. The battles were amazing, and it what they use on History Channel's Descisive Battles. Wonderful graphics, it was like a Lord of the Rings movie. The only part I wasn't thrilled about was the board game-like map. It could have been a little more interactive. Anyway, if you buy this game, you will not be wasting your money.
Battle Axes, Brew & Plunder!
You sit hunched near the prow of the Longboat, listening to the oarsmen gasp as they heave against their burden and shove the boat bearing steely death through the North Sea. There is a close, deadly chill, but the sea is cloaked with a thick and heavy fog that roils up off the whitecaps like steam, as if the furnaces of Hell churned beneath the waves. The Huskarls were blessed by the Jarl's priest hours ago; they clutch their battle-axes and snarl through their teeth, their faces streaked with a cow's blood, the berserker rage upon them.
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>Soon the dragon's prow will gouge into the Saxon shore; soon your berserker-band will leap across the side and crush skulls, spill blood, scatter the feeble enemy, rape and pillage and burn and plunder. You will drink the enemy's blood in a cup forged of his feeble skull and sing of Valhalla. You will not sully the honor of your ancestors. You will stare up to heaven and cry out in victory under the eternal one-eyed glare of Odin the All-Father.
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>The Omens warn of Death and Destruction. Just a fortnight ago, you watched as the heavens were filled with fire. The earth itself has turned against your people; the fields lie fallow, the crops barren, the yields puny. The people starve. Dogs run feral in the woods, even in the streets.
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>Your Saxon grandfather's grandfather hacked his way into this unforgiving wilderness, pushed the barbarian Celts back into the western hills, forged a life and a kingdom. You wear that uneasy crown even now, but God---how that cold iron crown digs down into your skull. The Christian priest speaks of the armor of the Lord, but how much more would you give for stronger steel and more men against the coming of this new scourge: orange-haired giants stealing throught the fog in their dragon ships, wielding steely scythes of death, slaying your men and defiling your women. They wear horned helms like the Demons the priests preach against. They are barbarians, savages, bloodthirsty monsters. They are the scourge of an uncaring God: they are the Vikings.
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>A year ago I picked up "Medieval: Total War" (the original, without the Viking Invasion expansion). Several beer barrels of coffee and three sleepless nights later, I decided Medieval was the single most addictive videogame I had ever played. I picked up the full Battle Collection last week, armed only with the modest expectation of a minor tweak to the basic game that would enable me to send hordes of screeching, beer-guzzling horn-helmed warriors roaring across Anglo-Saxon England.
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>Boy was I wrong.
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>Here's what you need to do: if you just got Medieval Total War: Battle Chest, you absolutely must load up Viking Invasion. It's not just an expansion: it's a massive overhaul to the MTW game engine that boosts immeasurably the original's playability, and (sigh) addictiveness. The flaws that hampered the original---and occasionally brought the game to a screeching halt or aborted it altogether---have been fixed.
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>Now there are four ages to choose from: the original three and the Viking Age (from 793 A.D. through the Norman Conquest in 1066). Apart from the Viking-era powers circa 793 A.D., you can now play an additional three factions: Hungary, the Kingdom of Sicily, and Aragon. The expansion includes a horde of new units to further your ambitions and smash those who oppose your imperial will: Slavic footmen, Hungarian Jobbagy, Russian Druhzina cavalry, Arab infantry, ferocious Heavy Steppe Infantry, the brutal Organ Gun, and of course the Viking units: miserable Viking thralls, doughty Viking landsmen, Saxon Fyrdmen, and fierce Viking huskarls.
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>Best of all, the design flaws that made the original Medieval: Total War nearly unplayable as the game progressed past 1300 have been fixed or eliminated:
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>1) Rebellions: In the old game, I would curse as constant rebellions turned my imperial map into a bloodbath of red, leaving islands of rebel armies knotted across my kingdom. Invading? You could count on a massive "rebel" or loyalist army left in your wake---piles of chivalric knights and feudal footmen boasting technology not available to the most advanced power on the gameboard!
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>Rebellions will still break out, and if you leave a region undermanned or overtaxed for years there's always a chance some long-vanquished pretender to a throne will resurface to unite the disaffected---but overnight rebel super-armies are long gone.
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>2) Ragnarok Abort Bug! Happily done away with. The original MTW used to be nasty to abort in mid-game, or when you went to save, or when you looked at the computer crosswise. Since loading up the Viking expansion I haven't had the game abort once.
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>New Stuff: Using archers against an enemy building? Light `em up with flaming arrows! Digging in against an enemy siege? Laugh it up as the gatecrashers scream in agony as you dump boiling oil on them.
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>The sleek new Battle Summary screen is also nice: now you get a full-screen display with a 360-degree view of the countryside, pictures of both unit leaders, details on both sides (if you've got spies or watchtowers), and an option to tailor your units before you get them on the battlefield.
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>A quick word about the Viking era itself: ever wanted to dispense with all the careful maneuvering, throw the battle-axes and ale kegs into the dragon-prowed longboats and just sail off to raid and plunder the British isles, and generally kill people and break things? Play the Vikings.
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>Enough talk! Open up the doors to the Temple of Odin! Raise your tankards to Loki in the drinking hall! Let the raids commence!
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Best Expansion Pack Ever
Normally expansion packs don't do much for a game, but this one was different. I didn't think Medieval Total War could get any better, but the new battle features added a LOT to it. Playing the Vikings wasn't as exciting as I'd hoped, but it added another dimension to the game. Highly recommend this expansion pack.