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Medieval II is a board game/real-time strategy game that is based off of the Total War series. Medieval II is the second installment of the series Middle Ages setting. The premise of the game is play as the leader of a country in the Middle Ages and lead your people to conquer the world. As the leader of a country in the Middle Ages, you get to control the construction of armies, the expansion and upgrading of cites, your country’s diplomatic relations with other nations, and your relationship with the Pope in Italy.

On of the main reasons that I chose this game was because of its expansive rang of choice in the running of the country that you control. It allows you to plan the unit types that your armies consist of, the number of each type of unit in you army, and the means in which you wage a battle. One of the main reasons that I so greatly like playing this game is the amount of control that you have over a unit while commanding a battle. You are actually allowed to chose their fighting style, special formations that they can take for a more strategic defense or offense. You also are allowed to control the movement and actions of your units in battle in real-time and this allows you to experiment with different strategies. The degree of micro management that is allowed in this game allows a player fine tune his strategy and try to find what will allow him to prevail against his or her enemy. The AI present in this game also allows for a challenge to the player in that the skill of the AI is based on the experience of the acting general in your army. This forces the player to also look into the commander of the enemy forces and to gauge whether or not to actually command a battle first hand.

The social aspect of this game is very different from that of other more multi-player centric games. This game does offer a multi-player battle experience that allows a player to configure an army with a set amount of points and then take on an opponent over the Internet . This side of the game is not as prevalent to the social side of the game because it is not very dynamic. I have found that the most fun that I have had playing this game is through the playing of the campaign game as a team with a group of friends. My best friend Jimmy, my brother Josh and I would sit down to a game of Medieval II were we would come to a consensus as to which country we would play as and then proceed to play the game in turns, with the two of us not currently in control acting as advisors. This would lead to a sort of diplomatic struggle out of game as well as in-game as we would argue over our strategy and who each of us was running the country. This allowed for the most enjoyable gaming experience that I have ever had with a predominantly single player game.