Medieval II: Total War is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game, the sequel to 2002’s Medieval: Total War and the fourth game in the Total War series by Creative Assembly.

The campaign allows the player to play as a faction from the time period, and build a civilization, both economically and militarily in order to conquer other factions. Gameplay consists of controlling the faction’s military, economic, and social systems in large campaign maps. During the player’s turn, armies, fleets, and agents can be moved on the map. When an army engages another army, the player can choose to fight the battle personally in the battle mode, or automatically calculate the outcome.

The goal of the campaign depends on which type of campaign is played. The short campaign requires the player to defeat one or two enemy factions (for example, Holy Roman Empire must defeat its historical enemies Milan and Denmark) and control at least 15 settlements. The long campaign requires the player to control at least 45 territories and one or two significant cities, which are faction specific, such as Jerusalem, Granada, Rome or Constantinople.

Any nation conquered in the Grand Campaign will be unlocked as a playable faction, with the exception of the Papal States, Mongols, Timurids, Aztecs (only encountered in the New World, or in the late period) and Rebels. Completing the Grand Campaign on any difficulty level unlocks all factions as playable.

Medieval II: Total War System Requirements

Minimum:

• OS: Windows 2000/XP
• Processor: Celeron 1.5GHz Pentium 4® (1500MHz) or equivalent AMD® processor. (2.4 GHz P4 Recommended)
• Memory: 512 MB of RAM (1 GB RAM recommended)
• Graphics: 128MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 1 supportand the latest drivers. Must be 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible. (256 MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7300 or greater or ATI® Radeon® X1600 or greater recommended)
• Storage: 5 GB of uncompressed hard drive space