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Best Game I have ever played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Stronghold Crusader is the best game I have ever played. There are so many areas to talk about. Graphics are beautiful and amazingly well done. Difficulty can range from near impossible to first time on a computer. A very well thought-out setup makes every aspect of the game easy, from signing in to conquering the Holy Land. Fairly historically accurate. Difficult at times but great. Even the music is good. The ability to build and construct a entire city within your keep's walls adds a great element. I have been playing for several months and I am still not the least bit bored. There's no such thing as too easy. You can build campaigns, play campaigns, play or build scenarios, build a massive castle in peacetime, play against easy enemies with a massive advantage in funds or admirable foes with hardly any gold at all, and select a variety of biased or unbiased maps to play challenging quests in. Play historically accurate campaigns or just beat Richard the Lionheart out of you land. Use allies to win, build siege equipment, hire assassins, charge with knights, and set fire to enemies as they wade through ditches of oil. A great game with many aspects and the perfect combination of strategy and RTS. An ecellent tutorial helps new players learn the game in a matter of seconds, and in a week you can be at a high level. Never fear this game getting old or being "used up", because there are endless ways to play. A great game. I haven't played Stronghold, but I think that it is by far beaten out by this one. Excellent.
Seasoned pros at RTS and computer games may find this a little easy, regardless of how hard, but for normal players and even frequent players this game can pose a challenge to even the best of gamers.

Highly addictive.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: June 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was searching for a good combination of castle sim builder and RTS battle game, and I lucked into this one - so many sleepless nights since! Great graphics, great sound, great music, and it even runs smooth on my clunky toaster oven of a computer.

Highly recommended! Get this game!

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: May 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

StrongHold Crusader is an amazing game.
It has so many units and different ways to
destroy a castle that it never gets old.
You can buy Crusaders, Knights, Archers,
Crossbowmen, firethrowers, and many more.
The graphics are great. This is a
great game and is better than most RTS games.
A+ for Stronghold Crusader.

Superb

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: February 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recall having already written a review for this, but I can't see it here ;)

This is a top-notch game. I've played through the original Stronghold twice, and I always had two problems with it:

1) Not enough missions from start to finish
2) Levels too short. I found that often I'd be just getting going on my castle and then the time would end!

This solves both.

The campaign mode on this has 4-5 5 mission mini-campaigns. The reason I'm not positive on the 4-5 is because frankly these are just kind of filler to teach you about new units and what not. Also ridiculously easy (I quit half way through the second or third campaign).

But that's my only gripe. The meat of this game is a 50 back-to-back mission super-campaign. There is no storyline to these, and they are just different missions done sequentially (you see a guy on a map as he progresses along). I'm on mission 30 now. I found that the first 20 were overall fairly easy, but they've started to get harder, and promise to be very challening by the end. These missions are your castle vs. one or several computer AIs each with their own. Sometimes you get an ally or two (they are quite incompetent at the beginning, but do become more useful later on).

My interest in games in recent years has waned, but my wife is away this weekend and, other than eating infrequently, I've done little but play this game both days. I quite simply am not getting bored by it at all; it's like I'm 16 again and it's summer time.

And look how cheap this game is now? Buy it!

NOT MUCH FUN AT ALL

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 21 / 43
Date: October 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe all the great reviews. I guess the developers come in here and write reviews to promote their lousy game so people will buy it! The graphics were a bit disappointing, there is no level progression, some levels start with an AI opponent that all but prevents you from getting your castle started. It's too difficult to select your own units, when you click on enemies to attack it gives a move command but not an attack command. You have to keep clicking over and over... same problem when trying to attack buildings. Basically, the game [lacks]. It's a good idea though so I gave it a 2. Hopefully next time the artists will spend more time building good art, the coders will build a faster graphics engine (which doesn't require a 2GHz machine to display their bitmaps), and the units will have larger selection boxes (so you can click to attack them). It would also be nice if you could rotate your maps smoothly, not at fixed 90 degree turns (the technology has been around for a while guys) it's not that hard to put together.

If you are really starving for another real time strategy, and are ready to pull out some hair in frustration, then this is the game for you.

Stronghold Crusader

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're still not quite sure wether to get this game or not, try one awesome fan site. I recommend this game very much. It works like a drug, just as much as the original one. To find this advert-free fansite type Stronghold and Knights into your favourite search engine! Enjoy your findings and enjoy one of the greatest games ever created for PC!
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The best game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: September 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Stronghold Crusader is the best strategy game ever!! It's got so many charecters, campains, maps and great detail! The third level is the one I can't beat, but it's still fun to watch your enemy build their own castle.

Sequal to Stronghold with AI skirmish in Singleplayer mode!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 18
Date: September 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

* Relive the heroic battles of the historic Crusades in FOUR distinct campaigns - Lead the heavily armored European Knights as Richard the Lionheart and command vast Arabian armies as Saladin, the Sultan of Syria.

* Attack the strongholds of fierce rival lords while forging an impregnable bastion of defense during intense Skirmish Mode!

* Either multiplayer or Singleplayer mode againts the computer AIs, no need for humans players if you wish, a great improvement over its first Stronghold precessor.

* Experience ruthless medieval combat in a hostile land where Assassins silently slay their victims, Horse Archers combine deadly accuracy with frightening speed, and common Slaves can shift the balance of power!

* Protect and defend thy loyal subjects from the horrors of Greek Fire with Water Pots, Fire Watchmen, Moats, Killing Pits and more!

* Storm enemy barricades with over 25 units including Arabian Swordsman, Teutonic Knights, and Grenadiers!

* Witness unparalleled siege weaponry including mobile Fire Ballista, imposing Siege Towers, crushing Trebuchets, and destructive Mangonels just to name a few!

* Design challenging new scenarios to thwart thy friends with the full-featured map and scenario editor!

* Crush thy friends in an ultimate crusade for the crown! Battle up to 8 computer and human lords in multiplayer Skirmish Mode via a LAN or over the Internet.

could it get any better?!?!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is the best medevil warfare/strategy game i have evr played by a longshot. the graphics are amazing, and the intense battle secuenses are EXTRORDINARY!!!! i play this constantly and can hardly turn it off. is is the best pc war game ever invented!!!

Pure addiction

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Personally, I recommend this game only for people with the self discipline to STOP PLAYING and go to work/school etc.

A good game is a matter of opinion, but I find this, along with "Stronghold" to be the most entertaining games I've played to date.

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