Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion
Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion is an expansion to Medieval: Total War focused on the Dark Ages invasions of the British Isles by the Scandinavian hordes. The expansion is built around new factions, a…
Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion is a real time strategy (rts) developed by The Creative Assembly, released 6 May 2003 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion is
Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2003. It was published by Activision. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Total War is a series of strategy games developed by British developer Creative Assembly for personal computers. They combine turn-based strategy and resource management with real-time tactical control of battles. Rather uniquely for real-time strategy games, flanking manoeuvres and formations factor heavily into gameplay. The first game of the series, Shogun: Total War, was released in June 2000. The most recent major game released was Total War: Pharaoh on 11 October 2023. As of April 2021, the series had sold over 36 million copies.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 75% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 Ghz or faster processor, 512 MB RAM and DirectX 9.0c graphic card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion launched on 6 May 2003, within three weeks of Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Fire Emblem. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Fire Emblem.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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