Discussion of reviews

**Germanicus75** · November 01, 2006, 11:19 AM

Since we can't post in the new review thread (good idea btw) thought I'd add a comment here.

Re. the review by the Finnish magazine, which said the siege AI sucks. Does that mean the AI cannot capture your cities? If so, doesn't that more or less render the entire game against an AI opponent pointless? :hmmm:

**Arakorn** · November 01, 2006, 11:31 AM

LOL, was just gonna direct you to the other thread :wink:

No, it does not mean that, the reviewer says:

Originally Posted by Kaj Laaksonen

The largest part of the battles are city and fortification sieges, where siege weapons such as ballistas, catapults, rams, siege towers and ladders take the lead role. Pity, since this part of the game is it's weakest point. The AI in TW has never been able to defend nor capture cities. Either it'll send it's troops to death or run them around in the city headlessly. In M2 the situation has gotten a bit better, but the sieges are still far too easy.

**God-Emperor of Mankind** · November 01, 2006, 11:32 AM

Someone pointed out that this magazine had the game and was gonna write a review for it a couple of weeks ago which means only one thing.
Build 47.

**Germanicus75** · November 01, 2006, 11:57 AM

Do we know for sure city sieges have improved since build 47?

**God-Emperor of Mankind** · November 01, 2006, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by Germanicus91

Do we know for sure city sieges have improved since build 47?

For sure no.
But we do know that they have improved the AI since then.
As Palamedes said, build 47 was really just basic.
So it is safe to say that it will be better.
How much however we can't say.

**Pelican Man** · November 01, 2006, 12:00 PM

From what people have been saying, yes they have been improved. They should improve even more when the patch for the game comes out.

THE P-MAN

**Spart** · November 01, 2006, 12:23 PM

Pelit-magazine? Damn, I'm off to buy it right now!

Finally a nice finnish review. I'll be back to report my thoughts.

I didn't find it in the local store. =( Could some kind Finn tell the pros and cons? I know it scored 94 points.

**Arakorn** · November 01, 2006, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by Spartacus(FIN)

Pelit-magazine? Damn, I'm off to buy it right now!

Finally a nice finnish review. I'll be back to report my thoughts.

I didn't find it in the local store. =( Could some kind Finn tell the pros and cons? I know it scored 94 points.

M2TW reviews :wink:

TB666: It said Version: Review, go figure what that means. They had a preview in the October mag, and there they complained about diplomacy etc.

Germanicus: Please add to the first post that this is for discussion of the different reviews, found in M2TW reviews thread, so that people know what's this all about.

Here's the code, simply copy/paste :wink: :

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This topic is for discussing the all the reviews, found in the Medieval 2: Total War - reviews topic. Try to keep the other topic clean. :)

Oh and I expect some more reviews, for example Lusted has revealed to me that PC Gamer also gave a 94, the reason why I haven't added it is that I don't know the pro's and con's.

EDIT: What the heck, the code-tag isn't working! It makes my url-tags url-tags! (Errm...)

**Spart** · November 01, 2006, 01:57 PM

Okay, thanks. Thread is impossible to find though, since it will disappear to another page, so add it to first message. =) I think 94 points sounds really juicy, and since there's going to be a patch very quickly, it will be even better. But I'm concerned about siege AI..

**DougyM** · November 01, 2006, 04:05 PM

Yeah i think people need to keep in mind that whatever the Review says... all of them have been based on the known to be bugged build.

When the game comes out there will be a patch on release that fixes a couple known AI flaws.... (said patch is supposed to noticeably improve the AI)