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The Greatest Action-Strategy Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a classic game that combines action and strategy in a very balanced way, this is the definite game for you. Defender of the Crown is a classic Amiga video game developed by Cinemaware (all the old Amiga folks bought it and played it to exhaustion). Cinemaware is an traditional California video game developer that has recently come back to life. You should visit their website, (...), and check out the quality of the other products they developed in the past. James Cope describes well the dinamics of the game, but I don't know why he gave it a 4 stars only; this is definatively a five stars. And I don't agree that you get tired of playing; I have seldom seen such a playable game and because of the many different scenarios you never get tired of it (I still play it after 10 years).
Maybe the reason Kames Cope gave it a four stars is that he is expecting Cinemaware to deliver an ultimate five-star version of the game with Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown. In the Cinemaware website you can also download an Amiga version of the game, if you manage to download a freeware Amiga emulator you can get a good run on your desktop.
Now Robin Hood plays an interesting part in the game and it is part of its medieval environment. The graphics were the best of their time and I am sure that the "remake" will live up to Cinemaware's tradition of playability and great graphs. Buy it! Buy it! Buy it! And help me pester those Cinemaware folks to speed up the development of Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown! I can't wait any longer....(...)

A CLASSIC

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sometime in the near future, they're going to make a new version of Defender of the Crown. Of course, most people won't know that it will be a sequel to this game. So, let me tell you what this game is like and what you can expect. Basically, you start off the game with some money and a nation. From there you can build up your military (different units are available), raid castles, attack other nations, talk to Robin Hood and hire his services, have lance and mace tournaments, and catapult other castles. I'll go into more detail, now. When you fight an enemy, the screen shifts to side-view. You're on the right, the enemy's on the left. It shows your various troops and you pick a command like: flank, hold ground, advance, retreat, etc. For me, the secret to winning was to attack, attack, attack. Start trashing your neighbor-nations as soon as your military gets a decent size. As for Robin Hood, I don't remember much about him, except that he can help you in some way/s. When you go on a raid, it shows you with a rapier in your hand and you have to thrust and parry your way through several screens to get to the princess at the end--I never could do it, it's pretty hard. Then there's the tournaments that other nations will challenge you to. In the lancing tournament, you have to knock off your other rider from the first-person view. In the mace fight tournament, you swing maces around until the other person gets hit too many times and loses. But my favorite part in DOTC is when you get to catapult a city. Catapult in the foreground, castle in the background. You get to choose from fire, disease, or stones to toss over. Furthermore, you get to aim the catapult yourself and watch the city walls get wasted. Overall, this is a VERY good game. Most games that try and do too many things at once fail, but DOTC does a jolly good job in all areas. I give it four stars because, though fun, you'll probably get tired of it after a few weeks or months. But if the original is this great, imagine what the new version will be like . . . .

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