This is a brilliant port of a game I have probably bought 5 times because I love it so much and have a tendency to lose things. I owned the original 4 CD set... and now I feel old. The only draw back is the UI interactions can be a bit tedious, but the pros vastly outwiegh the cons. I can't wait for a redo of Empire or even better Shogun 2! I'd totally buy those again.
Super buggy and often broken. Very poor port (rushed). In 40 years being a gamer (since 2600 in 1982) the pc version of Medieval II TW is my favorite game ever, overall. In other words, I know this game like the back of my hand. Too many bugs exist to recommend this port. After 45 minutes fighting a battle, the game will freeze up or crash. Very disappointing !
Im struggling with that 2 finger drag on my device. Once, I got a blue box, with arrows in each corner, to appear around a unit. That made it very easy to drag/position that unit while the battle was paused. I forgot what I did to activate that box.Now I'm back to the dreaded 2 finger drag that's never where I want it to be. And the battle PAUSE pop-up is huge! It looks great but it's blocking a large portion of the battfield on small screens.Everything else is amazing.
Same classic I remember and love! Although you might have to take some battles slower due to controls being touchscreen and requiring a little more attention, everything is just how I remember playing on PC. Playing around with every tab and action is best. Smaller issues can be fixed easily (manually choosing most recent save/using pause to get UI back/going into a city to select units). Absolutely recommend if you can spare 3gb of space, the money, and the time to get used to the controls!
Updated; ok so there is a pretty steep learning curve and the buttons are very small. That being said, this is by far the best strategy game of all time. Phone or otherwise. The expansion pack is totally worth it. Ive been playing this phone version since it came out and its still a game i play almost daily. For a single player offline game thats huge to still be interesting after that much time. New content would be cool though.
Great game. Works exactly like on PC except for unjt controls which is wonky. My only complaint is I constantly have to turn off my auto tax management in ever settlement (yes I turned off the setting in the settings menu but it still turns on) and the larger your kingdom gets the more annoying and time consuming it is. Whenever I start the game I have to take almost 5 whole minutes just to go to all my settlements to turn them all back to manual, and then adjust the taxes to what they were at.
Some bugs here and there. The battle map is awful to use and order troops in a line. It seems like the baility to make a decent troop line is not possible yet. The game doesn't listen to where I put my fingers. The worst part is the game crashing upon loaded a save. I've had to restart twice because all the saved data kept crashing the game. I'll try one more game and clear data with no cloud saves.
A decent port from PC. I've avoided battles entirely as I'm under the assumption it'll be terrible for touchscreen. However, the campaign is easy to manage. Because of the lack of controls, the touch and hold has multiple actions binded to it so be patient when combining units and panning around with a unit selected. Performance-wise, it runs surprisingly well. Didn't expect this game to run on mobile with how clunky it is on the PC. It's good to replay my favorite TW game so 4/5.
After a few weeks of playing I wanted to revisit this review, if you enjoy rts games from back in the day this is a good buy, that said keep at least 3 saves at different points, beginning of turn, end, and new turn. Controls can be frustrating in battle and out. Three stars because the campaign corruption issue is game killing but if fixed this could be a blast from the past.
won 2 different long campaigns and I'm about to start another game. The game did Force crash on me twice so make sure you save often. Don't trust the auto saves they're unreliable. Make your own saved games in the pause menu. The diplomacy between nations is a little out of whack as well. Overall though game is pretty solid. Also developer please make an option to remove the turn limit so we can just have fun.
