Ign review about M2TW religion + 5 new videos!!!

[Grand Duke Vytautas]

Here you go guys click me Enjoy

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Awesome, that assasination video was awesome.

[dragases1453]

yeah great videos

[Bwaho]

When the existing Pope dies (for whatever reason) a new Pope is elected by the college of cardinals. If you have a cardinal of sufficiently high rank, he'll be a candidate in the election. You can then negotiate with the other factions to get them to vote for your cardinal by buying votes via diplomacy. Alternatively you can agree to sell your vote for their candidate. Players have to exercise some caution when toying with the politics of a papal election. The newly elected Pope will remember those factions who voted for and against him and this will influence his relationship with those factions once elected.

now that's nice!

[The White Knight]

Anyone noticed the music was quite eastern, and not really European, despite the player being English? It'd be great if the music would vary depending on the theatres of war!

[Lord Janos]

Anyone noticed the music was quite eastern, and not really European, despite the player being English? It'd be great if the music would vary depending on the theatres of war!

Oh yes that would be great! It would really give an interesting and different feel to fighting in the East/West depending on your respective factions. Would be a neat little touch i think. I'll be very interested to see if we get some funky, exotic music in the Americas.

[0ldboy]

Sweet indeed. Thanks for the link G. Duke.

One note. I noticed that the music isnt blaring out as it did in Rome, you know, constant tracks being played one after another. Either the player has ALT+M'd it, or its just like in Meddy 1 where you have one great pumping track that sets you up for the battle and then no more music. I hope that's the case anyway.

[The Mongol]

now that's nice!

Very, VERY nice indeed. If I'm not winning I'll just give the Pope a quickie and maybe he'll give me some bonuses.

Wait, what?

I just found these and was going to make a thread but I saw this, the music in the "To War" video is great. Love the Eastern music!

[Sitarus Originalus PM-30+]

this videos are great =) thanks =)
assasination of teh Pope! ... that movie rocks!

[avesta]

does anyone have a link to a place with high res versions of the videos? the high res ones on ign are for paid suscribers.

[Grand Duke Vytautas]

does anyone have a link to a place with high res versions of the videos? the high res ones on ign are for paid suscribers.

I think these movies may soon appear in gametrailers.com and there you could download HD ones

[Loud About Loathing]

Awesome looking stuff, I can't wait for this to be released.

[Cyrus the Virus]

Very good reading. Videos was too hard to se anything clear. Expects better resultion later, hopefully.

Edit: Nvm Don't have to download it, can watch it instantly with high-res

[Handsome Huss]

Wow.

From that one video of the battle in the desert...I cant really explain it, it just looks and sounds like the battlefield really comes alive in MTW2. I cant wait.

[Sidus Preclarum]

Mybe it's the unit scale chosen, and the utter stupid ammount of artillery in the british army, but I found the scale of the battle to be less than impressive, almost as "puny" as a tabletop Warhammer or DBM game. The papal assassination video was very promising however...

[Flogger]

But I like how in the first battle that when the two lines clashed, one did not rout after 2 seconds of melee. Also, those assasination videos rule!

[Centurion-Lucius-Vorenus]

Mybe it's the unit scale chosen, and the utter stupid ammount of artillery in the british army, but I found the scale of the battle to be less than impressive, almost as "puny" as a tabletop Warhammer or DBM game. The papal assassination video was very promising however...

Probably because the english wasted half their units on artillery. And the egyptians had like 3 ranged units in the background.

[The Mongol]

They probably just want to show off as much artillery as possible, they have quite the selection.

I dunno, I know I wouldn't have nearly as much as that, maybe 2 sets of cannons.

[the_mango55]

Mybe it's the unit scale chosen, and the utter stupid ammount of artillery in the british army, but I found the scale of the battle to be less than impressive, almost as "puny" as a tabletop Warhammer or DBM game. The papal assassination video was very promising however...

the unit scale looked like it was set to large sizes, the size in RTW where you would have 80 infantry or 40 cavalry. Plus you were right about the Artillary, there were I think 8 artillary units on the screen, which only leaves room for 12 other units.

Wow.

From that one video of the battle in the desert...I cant really explain it, it just looks and sounds like the battlefield really comes alive in MTW2. I cant wait.

I got that feeling too, I think it is the cavalry animation, it seems so fluid and natural now, the people actually seem alive.

[Centurion-Lucius-Vorenus]

Animations seem to be much much better and more fluid, compare units starting to run in RTW to that video and you'll see it.