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Solid game for gamers with a brain (not pudding)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 20
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First: LORS3 is NOT Lords of the realm 2.

The game: - strategic map. You have to place vassals. Sounds easy and it is in the beginning cos you don't have much choices (yet). You have farmers (food), you have priests (relations), you have burghers (money -> mercenaries, relations and upgrading of castles) and you have Knights (armies). All of them are different and the deeper you go into the game, the more you will have. Managing and placing all these vassals is part of the strategy and get's more difficult with time. You have to think about your military strikes carefully and also keep an army or two to guard your backyard as he ai sees your weak points and attack them. The wrong strategy and you've lost very quickly.
-Combat map. Well it's not praetorians, but it's very well done. The ai knows very well how to attack your castle.

The very very bad: no printed manual. This is bad. However, it seems that almost nobody here has been able (or knows how) to download the manual from the homepage www.Lords3.com (just click on the link...yes, yes it works!). Plenty of information there. The Forums are full of nice people who take their time to explain the game (And it's not that complicated, fellows).

The very very good: the game is simple but difficult to master. Most of the player seem to stop after the campaign of Ireland. That campaign is actually the last part of the tutorial. The real fun begins later.

Don't resign until you've played the Black Prince scenario.

WOW, 5 out of 5 stars! Golly...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 29
Date: June 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

How does a game get 5 out of 5 stars even before it's released? Someone, please give me a clue!

I'm a HUGE fan of LOTR2 and am eagerly awaiting this release. However, I'm bitterly disappointed that the turn-based/RTS dual mode of LOTR2 is being abandoned in favor of full RTS. My concern is that the game might degenerate into a tiresome click-fest.

Let's just restrain our enthusiasm until this title is released and all the fixes are available.

Thanks.

The Gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 22
Date: March 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First and foremost, the completely new gameplay of this compared to Lords of the Realm II is something to marvel at. Not having stone, wood and iron and instead only caring about crowns, troops, food and christianity is a pretty radical change of gameplay.

Once you conquer a territory, you must place a vassal (four options) on the land in that territory. This will determine whether the territory is used to recruit troops (this comes with a castle of varying size), harvest food to support troops, pay crowns to the treasury (this comes with a town hall of sorts in the county), or gain you favor in the eye of the church (eventually allowing you to start "crusades" on your fellow christian nations). This means that land is the most important resource. If you don't have enough land: for food, your troops starve; for taxing, you go bankrupt; for troops, enemies invade; for christianity, you lose favor with the church and eventually they will coerce your fellow nations into attacking you.

The other important aspect of this game includes chivalry, honor, and christianity. These are aspects of you, the noble, in the game. If you are chivalrous (you ransom off captured soldiers and nobles as opposed to executing them), the type of soldiers you get will be the courageous type, not the scoundrels you get otherwise. If you are honorable, mercenaries are cheaper for you to hire- keep in mind that you need to have a tax collecting vassal in one of your counties so that you have a towncenter from which to hire mercenaries. If you are christian, you gain favor from the Pope. There are more ways to become a christian noble than just designating certain counties for churches (some random events).

Lastly, the price- this is probably cheaper than expected because the creators wanted to pay us back for constantly delaying the release and because there are many other games coming out at about the same time.

Hope this review was helpful.

There is not much to say It's just too boring.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: April 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There is not much to say It's just too boring.
Lords 3 is a true disappointment. Unlike Lord II even Lord 1 was much more better than Lords 1

What are you thinking

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: April 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been with this series since the beginning. The first one rocked, the lands were huge you got to do so much stuff. The second one blew, you played on itty bitty lands and it blew. So I figured that the 3rd would be a return to the first, man was I wrong it was like the 2nd but more land, but as a price taking care of your towns was gone, you just threw servant down on a land and boom your done, what the hell, then to top it off when you attack ajacent lands you can basically destroy the crap out of it but you can't take control of it, that's not cool.
The only reason why I give it a star is because I like the graphics in the battle screens, but other than that this game belongs in a bargain bin, and the places that have it should pay you to pick it up.

Unheard of Delays...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 26
Date: August 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a much anticipated sequel to Lords of the Realm II. A great game, but lacking in computer AI and graphics. I personally have been waiting for this game FOREVER. It was originally announced to be released in the last quarter of 2000! Up until recently, it was December 2002, then March 2003, then September 2003, and now its been pushed back to November.

Lords of the Realm II was released in 1996. Eight years between sequels. Assuming they stick with this newest pushed back release date. At this point, the unexplained, unreasonable 3 or 4 years of pre-announcements at this game's release makes me angry enough to forgoe buying this game at all. I give this game a one, due to the shameful behavior of the company regarding the treatment of the game's fans.

Lords of the Realm 3 (the Travesty)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Those of you that were waiting for this title to be released because of your enjoyment of the previous versions do not bother buying this title. They changed the format to a continous real-time-strategy (and strategy is used very losely here) game. The game play is nothing like the previous games. Limited army creation, no manipulation of serfs to ensure the best allocations of production. You only need gold, which is constantly stolen, to create castles. To be honest I am finding this title very boring and if I had spent more than the $20.00 I would be very upset. "Lords of the Realm" should have never been in this title! It is very misleading because the great game play features of the previous title are lacking. It even flounders as a RTS!

Tjaka, South Africa

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This review is meant for the developers of this game and shall not be of much use to somebody who doesn't know this game.
***The idea of real time on different levels (strategy & battle) is interesting but I find it a step in the wrong direction. Too many things happen too fast and one cannot make proper decisions. For instance - there's not enough time to properly look through the different vassals before assigning them - you have to grab & assign because somewhere else your attention is also needed. Often you miss out on nice battles because you have to attend to other matters. I still prefer the turn-based system. ***Many improvements are needed in the gameplay - I'm not going to try to list all the frustrations. If you're used to playing "Total War" then "Lords of the Realm" is a frustration. ***It sound as if I threw my "Lords of the Realm III" cd in the dustbin? No, I'm enjoying it. But I hope there shall be substantial improvements in the add-on or "Lords of the Realm IV".

So close, yet So far...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game had so much promise, but they let took it completely to the other end of the spectrum, instead of the micromanaging wich could get time consuming on LOTR2. LOTR3 swings the other way so completely you cannot even decide what type of Army you want.

Types of troops you raise are completely dependant on the lords you install in your land parcels. Not bad If I had an inexhaustible supply of each type to decide what I wanted. Nope, you have what the game gives you and thats it. Worse you couldn't micromanage things even if you wanted to. Then they fubared the combat, whatever you do don't attack a castle, the enemy's troops will hide out on the walkway behind the walls while your troops will mill around in the bottom of the courtyard getting shot full of arrows.

If you like simplistic games this would be the one for you. The only effective gameplay decisions you will ever make are which lord do I install, where should my next army come from and who do I invade next?

better than age of empires

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: May 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The best computer strategy game of the year. excellent graphics. scenarios are amazing! you should definitely buy this game if you liked the age of empires series, the 2 stronghold games and any other good medevil warfare game!

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