Lethargy in gaming

How was your weekend? Yeah I know, not too great here either.

Medieval 2: Total War will soon have an expansion and I definitely won't be one to buy it unless I can find it on the super cheap. I don't have anything really against MII:TW at all. Visually it is a great looking game of course and the strategy aspect is top notch. But after a while it just becomes information overload and I have enough of that at work.

Even the mention of more focused campaigns in smaller areas doesn't really appeal to me unless there's a way to compeltely eliminate the some of the more frivolous aspects of the game from the discussion. If you can play a campaign without the Pope, merchants, or princesses crowding up the map and trying to interfere then I might be more open to this game but otherwise I think I'll have to pass on this one.

Also, they mention hotseat multiplayer but what about full multiplayer over the Internet? How, for example, are you supposed to play at the tactical level with your friend in a hotseat multiplayer setup? Each of you get one side of the keyboard? I don't think so. Come on CA and Sega, drop all these extraneous crap and give us fully realized campaign multiplayer.