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Great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty confusing to get use to, especially if you play Ages of Empires, but it's fun none the less. I strongly recommend playing the tutorials, it'll ease the confusion

Challenging medieval strategy game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game. You have to build your city and the commodity chains as well, including the production of food and military supplies. Very exciting and challenging, you'll have great time trying to organize your city to get to the objective just in time.

Fun, but flawed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Overall this is a very fun game, but it suffers from some bugs. There are two parts to the game. The first is really just an extended tutorial that shows you how to build up and manage your castle. I found this part kind of boring. The second part is where you defend your castle and attack others. This is when the game got fun for me as I explored different strategies. Unfortunately once I got good at the game, it became too easy to outwit the very stupid computer opponents. For example, on one of the missions I had to defend my castle from a large squad of invaders. The definition of success was that my lord stayed alive and all of the attackers were dead. Even if the computer destroyed all of my castle and all other units, as long as my lord stayed alive I would win. So as an experiment I literally did nothing to protect my castle and let it got completely overrun. I left all of my defenders where they were when the mission started without issuing any orders and watched as most of them get slaughtered. Then when the bad guys came for my lord, I just had the lord run in circles. They followed him all around the map, but could never catch him. All the while my handful of remaining archers on the walls managed to shoot and kill dozens of heavily-armored knights who were ignoring the archers. I also could lead them to walk over and under traps.

Pro:
* Low cost ([...])
* Good sense of humor
* Great 3-D graphics
* Nice balance of making your people happy and making them your slaves
* You can build and issue commands while the game is paused
* It's fun to build castles
* It's fun to defend you castle
* It's fun to attack other castles

Con:
* Too short
* High system demands
* Non-combat missions can be boring
* Very stupid computer opponents (they often don't realize they are being attacked and just stand there and let you kill them)
* Estate system doesn't make sense (there is rarely any reason to take over another estate since you can't effectively use its resources)
* Serious bugs where you cannot produce certain resources under certain circumstances (for example, it sometimes would not let me make bread or wine), which kept me from being able to complete one of the missions

Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Awsome customer support and fun gameplay. Some bugs however but a recent patch (1.2) fixed many.

3 strikes you're out Firefly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought the first, and was disappointed. Then I fell for Crusader. Better, but still fell short of expectations and just not fun enough to recommend. Now we get this garbage. Rather than fix the management of the game and the actual warfare, what we get is more BS to juggle. Goodluck if you choose the warfare campaign, you'll be too busy trying to deal with ever growing crime problems while the computer either a.) sits back and does nothing the entire game or b.) attacks you with hundreds of troops 5 minutes into the game. At no point in the week of playing this have I been able to build a attack worthy army, nor even a decent castle. Not to mention that most of the maps, the terrain is so cluttered and setup that castle building is essentially impossible. Not that it matters because you pretty much don't have time to collect sufficient stone to build one anyway. If you are looking for a game of castle defending and sieging, look elsewhere.
Other cons: slow and buggy

40$ Down the Drain!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: July 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game only recently, and what do you know, it doesn't work! I meet all of the requirements and have gone to every possible measure to make it work, but it it just a piece of junk! If their software is terrible enough that it doesn't even work, I don't even want to know what the game is like!

Wasted my money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Never before have I bought a game where I truly felt I was ripped off. I bought the game even knowing some of the negative reviews. Actually I cannot write an accurate review because the game never loaded for me. It kept erroring out after 3 attempts at installing I gave up and felt robbed.

Grandioso

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: August 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

El juego esta fantastico, solo es que debes de tener mucha memoria de sobra en tu computadora por que sino no vas a poder disfrutar el maximo de las graficas, pero aun asi esta tan bien detallado que me parece increible que FIREFLY alla podido recrear con exactitud la epoca medieval tanto en cultura como en sociedad.

Ambitious, imperfect and fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've played just about every medieval war video game released since Lords of the Realm 2, and this is easily the best in terms of concept. In reality, it's imperfect. However, the developers have been very active and vocal in their efforts to repair the existing issues through release of patches. (1.2 being the most recent at the time of this review). Lower end machines might want to stay away from this one, or purchase it for the less demanding functions like the siege maps. This is definitely a game to watch, as it has great potential that is, as of yet, being developed.

Do not Purchase this Game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Game was released way before it was finished. Even Patch 1.2 does not begin to cure all of its problems. Buy it anyway and you will be very unhappy. Great idea bad execution!
I understand Patch 1.3 is now in the works. I would suggest you wait until it is available and then look for comments as to whether it actually does cure the many problems with this Game.

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