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So Bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: February 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was looking forward to this game. I absolutely loved Lords of the Realm 2. I can pick it up and even play it today and enjoy it greatly. Part 3 however is awful. All of the fun parts of 2 are gone. The battles are boring, and the graphics are really dated. The game is full of bugs and is just not fun to play. Playing the game once feels repetative. This game has no replay value at all.

Lords of the Realm 3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: May 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What a waste of money! I really enjoyed Lords of the Realm: Royal Collection so I thought I was purchasing a real hit. This game can't compare. I'm not in the gaming class of some of the people on here, I just like good entertainment. I can't tell you about graphic interfaces or anything like that but I do know the value of a dollar and if you buy this game you will not get what you paid for even at half the price!

Save your money, buy some good snacks and play the earlier versions.

This game will rock

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 75 / 171
Date: February 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

For all those who do not yet know, Lords of the Realm III is set to come out at the beginning of Fall, 2003. My only recommendation to you: save your money and buy it on the first day it comes out!!!
The last of a long list of successful Sierra products should not disappoint Lords II fans and promises to introduce novices to a whole different style of PC gaming.

In most RTS games, you just defend yourself until you outproduce your opponent's war machine, which produces a very redundant style of play, that even amazing graphics or innovative scenarios cannot overcome.
However, in Lords of the Realm III, a total different dimension is introduced: you play in a field with 200 other AIs (knights, clergy, independant cities, etc.) and the point is to become the most influent, not the unrealistic "world domination" objective. 200 different players on the same map, wow! Can you even imagine an online multi player game?

In Lords III, instead of fighting against everyone else, you start out as someone's vassal and by completing his orders (conquer other territories, supply food and labor, and so on), you are yourself granted territory, armies, etc. This system allows you to be part of a greater plan and develop yourself in the shadow of a mentor, which is much closer to the truth of the Middle Ages!
Once you are influent enough, you can have your own vassals and direct them towards your enemy. I thought this was a great novelty that will make this new version of Lords incredibly interesting to play!

Another point is the enhanced AI for the merchants! You may be asking yourslef, "why the hell would a merchant be granted an AI?", well if you and other players buy too much from one merchant, he will gain enough power to establish himslef as one of the players, like the city of Venice for example! A merchant that gets rich is greedy and will seek to conquer territory and expand his influence. For this reason, merchants muct be used with great care and only when they are absolutely needed.
Furthermore, it is possible to bribe the merchant into not selling a particular type of good to one of your enemies, in order to weaken his position, but one must still beware of the consequences of enrichning the merchant...

Obviously, this is only a snapshot of the many features that we will al discover next September... Now all we can do is hope the day will come soon...
Overall, I think that this game will be a major revelation and will be a watershed in Strategy games.

I can't wait, can you?

Terrible Gameplay

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: March 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Being a huge fan of Lords of the Realm 2, I had high expectations for Lords 3. After playing it, the $20 price tag makes sense. In my opinion, the game is horrible. They've taken all of the best aspects from Lords of the Realm 2, removed them, and fixed up the graphics a bit (which aren't too impressive). Most the economical aspects of Lords 2 have been destroyed, and the battles are fairly boring and somewhat buggy. After waiting for a long time for this release I'm extremely dissapointed. If I could return this game for half the cost I payed for it I would.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I received this game today and I have to say it is the biggest disapointment I've had in a game. For those of you that loved LOR2, don't buy this game. It sucks.

The econmic engine is gone, the vasal system used take all the fun out of managing your econmy and food production. The game's only real function is waging war. After about 20 minutes of this it gets boring. Save your money and play LOR2, it was much better.

Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: April 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of the Lord of the Realms series and was looking forward to part 3. However this game is terrible, it takes all of the previous fun game playing elements out of the game. There is no real decision making. I don't know how the developers can justify the time they spent on the game, there just isn't any gameplay worth talking about, what happened to quality control????

They gutted it. . . .

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: May 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As reflected in other reviews here, Sierra took out all the best parts of this series: managing the economy, delicate balancing of army, and even basic interaction with your cities. They took out the castle choices and the cool little videos. Even though the battle graphics were pretty basic in the prior games, it was unquestionably more engaging than the 3-D graphics but dull and incomprehensible battles in this game. In addition to the inability to control individual troops, I have had fighters attacking the air and other clipping issues.

This game is simply not fun, and made me want to fire up Lords II to remember what this series used to be about.

Get Stronghold or Lords II for a much better game.

This game is just confusing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, so I'm being really nice giving this game 2 stars. I am a huge fan of Lords of the Realm II so I thought I would purchase this game and have a go at it. Well.....that didn't go to well. The game, although it has great graphics, is extrememly confusing and hard to follow on what you can and can't do. It is really different from the previous Lords of the Realms and thus makes it hard to play. I wouldn't suggest not buying this product, but if you are a huge Lords of the Realm II fan, then I would say advise you not to. You will most likely end up being upset with yourself (and your computer!!).

What a Disappointment!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the Lords of the Relm series, but I must admit that after only owning this game for one day, I am forced to trade it back in, what a dissappointment. I knew with the price that is wasn't going to be a great game, but didn't expect what I got. If you have played either of the two previous versions of this game, you will know what I am talking about. You don't control the building of your armies, or what your countries produce. All you do is pic a vassel and let them do everything and then you march your pre-determined sized army (oh sorry, you can combine them, but still have set limits), and march around and attack your enemies. So, you basically do nothing in this game. You just fight battles if you feel like it and even those aren't all that exciting. The battles are similar to Medieval Total War, but less detailed and not near as life like. The graphics of this game are great, but the game play itself is awful. I was really looking forward to this game, but wish I had saved my money. If you new to the whole Medeival strategy game style, then this game my be a good learning tool, but for those of us that have played Medeival Total War, Age of Empires and the previous Lords of the Relms games, you will find this game boring and not worth the money. I know, you are all just saying the same thing I said when I read the reviews of this game.... he just didn't like it and is bitter. Trust me, I said the same thing and went out and bought it today and now I am hoping the EB will give me at least a couple bucks for it to try and buy something else. So, for those of you on the fence about this game, I hope it helps some and for everyone else, try it at your own risk. Enjoy!!

"Ave Caser, morituri te salutant"

Unplayable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: June 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I had very much enjoyed Lords of the Realm 2. This game however, is virtually unplayable. Perhaps 15 years ago I would have tried to brave through all the difficulties and frustrations and learn to enjoy the game, but with all the quality games available today, it just isn't worth it.

The game interface is clunky and hard to understand. The tutorials do a poor job of preparing you for the game. The manual is thin and not very helpful. On the tactical level, your soldiers do not handle orders well, you cannot give orders to individual units, only companies, and they screw them up half the time. The tactical overview map is hard to read and it can be hard to tell where the opposing forces are. In combat it is difficult to tell the difference between your soldiers and the enemy.

Tactical combat goes on in "real-time" while stuff outside is going on. This would be fine, except once the combat begins, other forces can't join the fight. If there is a castle siege going on, you can't have forces come in to defeat the attackers. They just have to wait outside and twiddle their thumbs as the attack goes on.

It isn't very clear how you get the forces you want. You establish a knight on a piece of land, then he starts raising an army. What if I want swordsman? cavalry? archers? I don't seem to have any control, and I wasn't willing to play the game long enough to find out.

I threw this game in the trash. Don't waste your money.

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