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coastfire

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: October 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is more of the same if you own Crusader or Stronghold. The major difference of the aformentioned games is that they are playable. Stonghold 2 has many problems the major one is the constant lockup or freezing of game play. Don't waste your money.

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.

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.

Don't waste the time/money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is laggy, buggy, and not really worth your money/time. Even a fast machine will lag in multiplayer, and that's with only 2 players. The company behind the game, firefly, are so pathetic that they actually ask people to come to these sites and tell you guys how awesome the game is now. Well it's a lie. A patch has been available for days now but on their website it's still listed as "delayed". Just one example of their gross incompetence. Poorly made. Poorly supported. Money better spent elsewhere.

blek

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

wow, i just bought this game from best buy on a whim. i loved the first stronghold, and strong hold crusader. i just dont know how they went so wrong on this one. it is completely user-unfriendly. the game itself takes somewhere between 5-10 minuits just to load, and the game play itself, not so great. gone is the custom game plays where you can just play a random map with enemies. build your own city, etc. the game-play is slow, and hard to follow. the units are frail, and easily killed. and the fortress's just arent as fun to create. in other words, save your fourty bucks, and buy the cheaper, more fun first versions. STRONG HOLD 2 BLOWS THE BIG ONE!

Great first version, poor second version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Thsi game is all over the place. All they had to do is add more castles and characters to the first version. Instead they changed the whole outlook. This is nothing like the first version which was great. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!

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.

Really Bad! Don't waste your $ on this!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: April 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Come on! This game is bad! Don't waist your time with it. Heck, Medieval Total War is ten times better than this and it is about 4-5 years old now!

There are much better RTS/Tactical games out now. My advise, try Rome: TW a great game no castle sieges but ancient cities are there! Or wait until Empire Earth 2 comes out today. These titles will not disapoint as this title did. Now if you will excuse me I gotta see if I can return this lemon to the store for my refund!

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.

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