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One of my favorites

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I LOVE this game!
You have a choice of: Crusader,Multiplayer,Campagin or Custom Scenerio!The graphichs are well done,the troops are not bad,and custom scenerios are awsome.In custom scenerios you start out with just desert sand then you build castles and terrain and set up your own goals and what happens when you lose!
Also if you select Crusader you have a choice between crusader trail or skirmish. Trust i is worth buying!

A solid, thoroughly engaging game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Stronghold: Crusader is a game you can really sink your teeth into. As many reviewers have noted, it is set during the Crusades in the Middle East, but what is remarkable about this backdrop is how absorbing it is. The music, the scenery, the sound effects all contribute to transporting you into this historical context and location. Even though much of the landscape is desert, the maps do not feel the least bit monotonous.

The game is extremely successful in capturing the nuances and subtleties of the time period and geography. Weve all heard the expression, "It's all in the details," and Stronghold: Crusader proves it. Some of the most satisfying moments of the game are the mundane tasks your peasant workers carry out: bakers flip bread inside burning ovens; masons expertly chisel stones into cubic bricks with only a few strokes; woodcutters plane trees into boards. All of these little actions happen right before your eyes, and it's actually quite pleasant to sit back and watch your community bustle.

There are battles too, and these are handled well (though they are certainly not the best in the rts genre). Generally, the two opposing forces are evently matched, each side having specialized forces that offset the strengths of the other's. The pathfinding is fine, but the AI is sometimes painfully unintelligent. Units will sometimes form disastrous congo lines when launching an attack, rather than attempting to surround the enemy.

However, these complaints are really trivial when contrasted with everything this game has going for it. Stronghold: Crusader is definitely worth a first and second look.

Great detail

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a highly detailed game. Strategy, good graphics and just fun

Greastest strategic game EVER!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

(...). Im 11 years old. This game is very very very fun! It combines stratagy with all-out WAR!!! I got this gaem like 1 or 2 years ago and i still love it!! you gottta buy this game!

Must buy game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a must buy game for RTS gamers. G.O.D impressed me with new scenarios and new units in this game.

crusader

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am a long time gamer this is the best game I have played better then all diablos

"firefly studios does it again!"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

if you are looking to buy this i hope you have already played the original.this game is full of adventure and suspence. ally with other europeans to crush the arabians lead youre crusaders into battle against the arabic souldiers, but whath out for greek fire!

The Best RTS Game ever made ..........................................

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome I am still playing it year after year. Man and the Co-op game play is the coolest. Get a friend get this game and find another computer. The thing runs like a rock you can't kill this game. Island one game for life HERE IT IS........................................
War crap / Age of what / STRONGHOLD wins again

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: March 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

thsi is coolest game ever (besides my favorite, starcraft) it is the ultimate game with strategy and losts of levels

Not too fun like it seems.......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: September 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is not fun after a while. If you really like stragedy games I will recomended but if you want to go to action right away or built giant armies this game is not for you.This game is mostly about castle builing,you built everything for example if you want armor you have to make an iron mine.After a while it gets the same and you get bored really quicly.The campaign sucks,its better if you do the missions instead.

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