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Dont buy the game if you just have a realy bad computer.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Everyone is saying its bad because it can load or it freezes alot ect. Overall I think the game is very good but alittle boring after awhile i dont have much to say but if you have a bad computer then simply dont buy the game. This is a recommended game for all those people who dont have slow computers or old computers.

Just Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I guess when it comes to computer games, sequals are always much worse than the original. They always take the novel, fun concept of the original, and ruin it by adding tons of complications to it. Thats the case here, more complex dosnt mean more fun.

All the new features are ok in theory, but of course very few of them actually work the way they're supposed to. Even after patching to 1.2, sometimes i'll get piles of "gong" all over the castle, while my gong farmers just stand around doing nothing. The only fix for this seems to be deleting all my structures, and then starting over.

The first Stronghold focused mainly on defense, with only a few attack missions. I found that to be a very nice change of pace, i dont recall ANY game that ever focused purely on defense before. Of course, the second one seems to mainly be an attack based game. The castles aren't nearly as strong as they were in the first one. Most siege weapons can destroy even the strongest castle in a matter of seconds (as well as your brave defenders now). But the gameplay and features of the game are moot points, the big problem is the game flat out dosnt work.

The 3-d graphics suck, let's face it. I'm not really picky about graphics, but whats strikes me is that the graphics are very poor...yet the game runs like it's Doom freaking 5; lots of waiting times and choppyness. In fact, the game itself can take upwards of around 3-5 minutes just to boot up. This is on a high end gaming computer as well.

What really upsets me though, is i tried playing the game all the way through, even though i didnt really enjoy it all that much. I got about halfway, and then suddenly the game just started crashing every 15 seconds on a particular mission. I wrote tech support, and after about a week of writing back and forth, their only suggestion was to reinstall the game. I did that, started all over, enjoying it even less this time and when i got to that mission again, i found it still crashed. As it is now, the game is completely unplayable, and i've given up. I really do feel as if i've been robbed of $40.

All in all, i'm completely sick of companies that sell these games that they're not even finished building. This sort of thing really has dissuaded me from purchasing ANY pc games anymore.

Don't fix what isn't broken

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: April 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have just returned this game for a refund. I was a huge fan of the previous versions and will continue to play them. They were easy to control and fun to fight. This new version is not worth the money. The gameplay is slow. The new additions to civilian affairs are tedious and time consuming. And frankly I was not impressed by the graphics. They were fun at first but they get in the way of playing a game. I will continue to play the original version until Age of Empires comes out later this year.

a disapointing sequel

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

when i bought stronghold 2, i was extremly excited. i own stronghold and the crusader expansion pack, and in my opionione stronghold was one of the best games ever. If you like ordinary RTS games, stronghold isn't for you. in order to get a swordsmen, for example, you need to: have a baracks for him to be made at, you a blacksmith to make the sword, you need wood and gold to build the blacksmith, you need a wood cutrer's hut to make the wood and you need a peasant to work at the wood cutter's hut. Than, the blacksmith need iron to make the sword, so you need an iron worker. in order to have extra peaseants, you need a hovel to house them, wood to build the hovel, and food to feed them. you need to sell excess goods to get gold, so need all the indusrtries to make the goods.

As you can see, there are huge production chanes in this game.

overall, i didn't really like stronghold 2. here is why

pros:
They have both a peace and a war campaigne, so you can play wichever is more to your taste.

they have 3d graphics, which some people might argue is better.
(more on that later)

more units and building, wich add another layer.

not to expensive

cons:
the 3d graphics don't add anything to the game. yes, they are pretty, but they just slow the game down. i had to buy a new graphics card for this game, and it still ran incredibly slow.

every time you start the the game, the intitall loading time is almost always upward of six and a half minuets.

on the peace campaigne, you can't load a particular misson, you can only load a saved game. For example, if you just lost mission 7,and you think it was because of something in mission 6, unless you save at the beginning of each mission, you can't go back. and it you didn't save before you died, youa will have to go all the way to you last save point.

once you get to the fourth of fitth missions, they become imposible. missoin 4 of the war campaigne is impossible, but missio three is a sinch.

also, the game just isn't fun. most of the the time you are just sitting and waiting for the woodcutter to chop the wood so you can build wahatever building you need for the goal.

over all, if you are thinking of buying stronghold 2,don't. buy the originall stronghold, and if you have that, the crusader expansion pack.

*for all who rates this game*

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: April 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Please Update the game with the patch from the web, then fix your review if you think the game has improved !

its not fair to mark 3 stars on the game if u dont aply the patch, but then again , publishing the patch so close to the official date of the game does seems as if the game was published perhaps too soon ?

FireFly continue to support!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

stronghold 2 is as they say the ultimate castle sim!. Although there is an issue with lag on some lower grade pc's, this game lives up to FF great standard. Customer service is like no other, already realeasing two patches. Patch 1.2 fixes some of the major bugs and makes tha game very playable. from a slow and rather buggy game it is obvious the team care for their customers and as soon as another patch is releases this game will be 100%.
Don't let the above deter you from a great purchase as this game is in a league of it's own, setting a standard to beat. From 2D to 3D they have made the jump look effortless, Fans of the original will love this game.
WL_D

o' what could have been

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: May 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What should have been heaven on the pc just isn't. Love the graphics and the possiblities but all the extra's that involve the
lord needs work. I enjoy the game play but, when you get alot going on the game starts bogging down. The campaign is enjoyable, but the kingmaker section doesn't offer enough freedom, plus the area you have to build in is limited although this is offset some by purchasing estates. While it needs some touch ups I'll keep playing while I use total war: rome as a cup coster.

Good castle sim, average RTS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
Very realistic and historically accurate
Variety of seige methods and tools
provides hours of fun
smart AI

Cons:
Combat graphics not the greatest
tons of elements to the game you must keep track of
popularity hard to keep up

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: May 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Dear friends, this game is not worth one cent. As a fan of "classic" games such as Sid Meier's Colonization, Centurio, Transport Tycoon Deluxe or AOE I-II, I find Stronghold 2 just plain awful. I have spent only one day with this game, the necessary time to jump into the conclusion that Stronghold 2 is a shame.
Idiotic voices of the characters, terrible graphics, pathetic scenarios, awful layouts, boring battle, etc. I don't even know where to start. There is NOTHING worth to waste five minutes with this game. I am so disappointed with Stronghold 2. I cannot understand how there are people who like it. I have been ripped off.

Five stars no where near

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: June 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The people who have given this game 5 stars must be mad. Having played the original Stronghold and Stronghold crusader I have to say this game is rubbish. The first two were immensely enjoyable and excellent to play. Firefly have done this game no justice with its 3d effects and dodgy voices. How can you give a game 5 stars when it has so many bugs and problems. The characters never go where you want them to and the AI is pathetic. It mad me so angry I wrote to Firefly telling them if all the care about is fancy graphics then don't bother making any more games. Do yourself a favour and avoid this game like the plague.

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