For the first time in the Total War series each troop is an individual, garbed with the rich heraldic colours and glinting arms and armour of the period. Set in the years 1080-1530 the most turbulent period in European history, the game combines a vast, deep- thinking turn-based strategy campaign with the most cinematic, epic and brutal real-time battles ever seen in the genre.Ī vastly enhanced version of the Total War engine vividly portrays the pure bloodlust of Medieval warfare with massive battles of more than 10,000 troops splayed across new graphically rich environments. Medieval 2 is the latest and greatest game to be released in the best selling and award-winning Total War series.