Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Large real-time medieval battles in which the player's soldiers cut down human enemies with swords, spears and arrows; blood appears on troops and corpses litter the field, but there is no dismemberment or gore focus.
The campaign depicts religious war, crusades and an Inquisition that tries and executes characters, plague, and the death of named generals and captured troops, all driving the historical plot.
Cavalry horses and war dogs charge and are killed as part of ordinary battlefield combat.
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What it is
Total War: Medieval II is a historical strategy game covering roughly the 11th to 16th centuries across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and, late in the campaign, the newly reached Americas. Play alternates between a turn-based map where you grow a kingdom by managing cities, economy, religion, diplomacy and dynasties, and real-time battles where you command thousands of soldiers in massed clashes with swords, spears, bows, gunpowder and siege engines. Battles show blood on troops and the ground and leave bodies where they fall, but stop short of dismemberment or gore. The wider fiction carries the weight of the era: religious wars including Crusades and Jihads, the sacking of towns, the option to execute captured troops, and an Inquisition that can try and burn characters as heretics. There is no sexual content, nudity, profanity of note, or purchasable content, and the documented online play offers multiplayer battles without in-game voice or text chat.
How it's framed
The game frames war and statecraft as the tools of ambition, and casts historical conquest, religious conflict and dynastic intrigue as challenges to be mastered rather than judged; violence is the central mechanic and success in battle and expansion is rewarded, while the period's cruelties — executions, sieges, inquisitorial trials — are presented as strategic events and background reality rather than dwelt on graphically.
Details
- Developer
- CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
- Publisher
- SEGA
- Released
- Nov 15, 2006
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