Which medieval strategy game has the best graphics?

[Kyriakos]

Well, which one?

Here are two of my own favourites, because it is clear to me that the artists who made the buildings are very talented:

Age of Wonders

Seven Kingdoms 2

 

[Rub'Rum]

The Age of Wonders series was amazing. I still have the soundtrack for the first one.

 

[Kyriakos]

Yeah, i listen to Love and Death all the time, it is a great track

 

[Akka]

Medieval Total War 2

 

[Kyriakos]

MT2 had great unit models, but iirc the buildings weren't anything special

 

[Akka]

I beg to differ :

 

[Zelig]

Of medieval strategy games I've played, Civ4 (in the medieval age) has the best graphics.

 

[Kyriakos]

Of medieval strategy games I've played, Civ4 (in the medieval age) has the best graphics.

No, even civ3 has better than civ4:

 

[tycoonist]

MTW2, no competition. the building ain't spectacular, but the units are unparelled.

 

[Zelig]

FWIW, MTW2 looks much better than those screenshots on a decent computer, those are low resolution, artifact-full, and highly aliased.

Here are a couple higher quality screenshots:

Spoiler :

Spoiler :

 

[Kyriakos]

Those buildings do look nice indeed

But in my view they lack the special character a good artist gives, as is evident in my opinnion particularly in the Seven Kingdoms 2 pic. There the buildings are dark and depict a characterisation of the soul given to the faction that uses them, by the designer

Seven Kinddoms 2 was a game all about atmosphere

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Lovely finds Zelig - shows how far computer game art has come

 

[Zelig]

Lovely finds Zelig - shows how far computer game art has come

And those screenshots are from 2007 at the latest - best video cards at the time would have been Geforce 8800 cards, which are roughly a quarter of the speed of current cards. AFAIK there aren't any recent strategy games that really take advantage of modern video cards.

 

[cardgame]

M2TW /thread

Mount & Blade would be in 2nd place, if you count it as a strategy game

I mean, it has strategy elements... but it remains an action game imo

 

[Zelig]

M2TW /thread

Mount & Blade would be in 2nd place, if you count it as a strategy game

I mean, it has strategy elements... but it remains an action game imo

One of the biggest criticisms of Mount & Blade is the poor graphics...

 

[cardgame]

Show me better in the same category. That's what I thought.

 

[Akka]

FWIW, MTW2 looks much better than those screenshots on a decent computer, those are low resolution, artifact-full, and highly aliased.

If you know a way to change the basic screenshot resolution without using a third party program, I'll be happy to show some 1920x1080 images in full details, but as it is for now, it's either whatever I got quickly on the Net, or a distorted and blurry 1024x768 pic which will be even worse

 

[truckingpete]

I liked Knights of Honor, yes 2D, but beautiful graphics for a 2D game

 

[Kyriakos]

I liked Knights of Honor, yes 2D, but beautiful graphics for a 2D game

I agree, i loved them too

 

[NBAfan]

Dawn of Discovery (Anno 1404) looks pretty good.