When comparing Medieval: Total War vs Cities: Skylines, the Slant community recommends Cities: Skylines for most people. In the question“What are the best games on Steam with great mods?” Cities: Skylines is ranked 4th while Medieval: Total War is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Cities: Skylines is:
At a total of 36sq.km of area to use (compared to SimCity 4), there is a large amount of room to build and play.
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Pros
Pro Assortment of empires to choose from
Each empire has different historically unique troops and territories. Giving the game quite a bit of replayability.
Pro European themed
Unlike Shogun (of the Total War series), Medieval Total War is based on European feudal combat.
Pro Large scale
At a total of 36sq.km of area to use (compared to SimCity 4), there is a large amount of room to build and play.
Pro Steady Stream of new content via DLCs
DLCs are optional, they do go one sale. Plus when a new DLC is released a bit of the content is released into the base game.
Pro Depth of field
There is a depth of field effect that will blur distant buildings, which mimics Sim City's diorama effect. It can of course be adjusted with a slider as to how much or little to use.
Pro Large Amount of Workshop Mods & Assets
With almost 150 thousand assets and mods, you can totally change the gameplay and look of the game
Cons
Con Steam version often crashes randomly
Many users of the Steam version of the game report random crashes, which will most likely never be fixed due to the games age.
Con Resource Heavy
If your computer doesn’t have decent specs, don’t expect to be able to run this game smoothly.
Con Expensive
If you want more gameplay features, you have to buy expensive DLC, but you can get them on sale sometimes.
Con Can be difficult to glean what one has done wrong in game
Cities: Skylines has difficulty letting the player know what they have done wrong, which results in a lot of head scratching.