thevaliant

A reasonable action roleplay game that doesn't make any pretenses about what it is. Plenty to do and sights to see around Venice in the high middle ages (well, an alternate Earth really). It's not open world and doesn't pretend to be. Combat is relatively simple though it is obvious the controls have been ported from a console version. Good for a few days of relatively mindless fun.

Dreadful game. Not a patch on the original. Very poor voice acting and the graphics during character creation and combat are worse (how?) than the 1992 version. The only improvement on the original is the scenery. But the rest of the game is worse.

This is the second best computer game I have ever played. And I played it nearly continuously for a period of six years. I could not recommend it more strongly. Civ 3 didn't cut it, though Civ 4 is also very good. (The best game ever? Hearts of Iron 2)

For those that want a World War 2 grand strategy game, look no further than this, or at least, look no further than the latest Armageddon version. Micromanagement set just right at the divisional level. A relatively simple tech tree and a diplomatic system that works just right. I always used to say that Civilization II was the best game I'd ever played, but I was wrong. It's this one and six years later I am still playing it almost every day.

After the excellent Hearts of Iron 2, I was expecting much from this game. Regrettably, I was sorely disappointed. After purchasing, with version 1.00, the first thing I noticed was the horrendously slow game play. Now my system wasn't particularly good, but this was awful. It took several patches to bring things to a reasonable speed. Micromanagement was heavy, detailing down to the brigade level and I never really got far in either the politics or diplomacy settings due to dire game speeds. The only good thing to say about the game is the technology tree which looks good. Paradox then went and released Semper Fi, an insult to injury - Effectively you have to pay for further patches to the game.