Medieval: Total War cover
Log Want to Play Collection
Loved

See more on IGDB

Medieval: Total War (2002)

The Creative Assembly

PC (Microsoft Windows)

My Save State is where you keep a diary of the games you play.

You can't play Medieval: Total War here, but you can log it, rate it, and see what other players think.

Sign up free Already a member? Sign in
Experience the middle Ages in all their blood-soaked magnificence. From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts of Northern Africa, from the first Crusade to the fall of Constantinople, implement diplomacy, utilize trade, espionage and assassinations, spread your religion and wage total war in order to expand your influence and secure your reign as you build a … Experience the middle Ages in all their blood-soaked magnificence. From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts of Northern Africa, from the first Crusade to the fall of Constantinople, implement diplomacy, utilize trade, espionage and assassinations, spread your religion and wage total war in order to expand your influence and secure your reign as you build a dynastic empire to stretch across four centuries.

Total War is the follow on from 2000’s Shogun- Total War. As with Shogun the game is split into two sections – the turn-based campaign map wherein the player is required to make strategic decisions, recruit and move armies, besiege settlements, fight naval battles and employ agents such as emissaries, spies and assassins to aid with diplomacy, offer alliances or bribes, or execute rather more clandestine actions.

Religion is important in the game and whether a faction is Muslim, Orthodox or Christian will affect allegiances and public loyalty – as a catholic nation the player must carry out the wishes of the Papal States, embarking on a holy war if need be or else run the risk of excommunication. If public order and loyalty should fall too low in a particular region a rebellion or a civil war may occur – in these situations the player may decide to side with the rebels or the current rulers to quell the rebellion or overthrow a tyrannous regime- Read more

Details

Developers
The Creative Assembly
Publishers
Activision
Genres
Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Tactical, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), Fantasy, Historical, Warfare
Franchises
Total War
Series
Total War: Medieval
Also known as
Total War: Medieval 1 · Total War: Medieval · M:TW (Acronym) · MTW (Acronym)

Release dates

  • Aug 19, 2002 (North America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Aug 30, 2002 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)

Related

Bundled in

Expansions