Medieval II expands for autumn

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 April, 2007

"Over 75 hours" of new stuff.

SEGA plans to release a Medieval II expansion called Kingdoms this autumn, promising "over 75 hours" of new gameplay. We'll be counting.

That breaks down roughly to four new campaigns, six new multiplayer scenarios, 20 new Custom Battle maps, and a new hotseat multiplayer mode. You'll find 13 new factions to play with and over 150 new units, too.

The four new campaigns include one, the Americas campaign, which allows you to explore The New World - unlocked toward the end of Medieval II - either in the boots of Hernan Cortes or the Aztecs or Native Americans.

Others shine a brighter light on campaigns in Britain (Britannia campaign, where you can fight a war on four fronts), Northern Europe (Teutonic Wars, with pagans and Christians) and the Holy Land. New heroes include Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, while the press bumf also name-checks the Greek Flame Thrower, so expect that to be one of your 150 new units.

You can also now garrison your armies in moated forts, and explore new technology trees rooted in religion and prestige. A bit like me.

Wondering what it looks like? Then you'll be wanting to shoot off to our Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms screenshot gallery, won't you?

Picture of Tom.

About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #1 5 years ago

    Mmm, tech trees.

  • StormRider #2 5 years ago

    bring back the "choose your own heir" button. The automatic selection of heirs is crap.

    Princesses are useless too.

  • Burton2000 #3 5 years ago

    Bought medieval 2 when it came out but haven't be able to play it because of my crap computer. Fortunatly my new one is arriving tommorow so got a lot of catching up to do.

    Expansions are always fun.

  • Errol #4 5 years ago

    Princesses are never useless ...

  • MightyPenguin #5 5 years ago

    13 new factions? On top of the other ones? Where the fuck did they find them? Are we talking EUIII style "every province in the HRE is a faction"? Actually, forget that. Where did they get enough colours for the factions?

  • Jigglybean #6 5 years ago

    have they fixed the dumb ai yet? Pile of crap

  • UncleLou #7 5 years ago

    Cool, I'll definitely buy this.

  • silver-jon #8 5 years ago

    Any idea of whether this will be ported to X360 ?

  • thinktank #9 5 years ago

    @ silver jon

    EA are struggling to get a bread and butter RTS like C&C3 to work on 360- there's no proof that will work yet - so something as complex as a total war game seems a long way off. Although it is published by sega who a total platform whores.

    Bottom line don't hold your breath.

  • frag.uk #10 5 years ago

    Ahhhh yeah!

    However, with Vista, the more stable driver I have doesn't let me use SLI and the Beta SLI driver makes the game crash half the time a general dies or wall falls in the middle of the battle. Rather annoying - gives me sporadic BSODs if it's nice, too. But when I get past the bugs - it is a truly spectacular game. The music, particularly the marches and victory themes for the Islamic powers, is absolutely awesome. Kingdoms looks pretty amazing, although if you can read German, you'd have known about it for a week or so.

  • silver-jon #11 5 years ago

    Thanks thinktank.

    Funny how the whole thing can be done with a mouse that has 2 buttons and a wheel, and a bit of help with four keys on the keyboard, but not with a gamepad that has two analogue sticks, four triggers, and 6 (is it?) buttons.

  • dirigiblebill #12 5 years ago

    Bollocks I was hoping this was Medieval II (as in like, hack and slash) for psp. Been hoping for a comeback after the lacklustre launch title.