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The best strategy game ever!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 19
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I installed the demo, I thought this will be just another one of those boring strategy games. But I was 100% wrong...

This game is simply amazing to the highest degrees. And extremely fun and DANGEROUSLY addicting and time consuming. I know that the full version will have more features, but still the demo is awesome. You only have 3 options in the demo: Very Easy, Easy, and hard. It took me a whole week to beat all 3 difficulty levels. Richard the Lionheart was the most difficult to fight. It has features from Caesar II (the fire and mini video clips) and from Pharoah (tax control)...

It has a variety of characters, things to build, events, unexpected enemies, and a whole lot of new stuff that does not appear in any other RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game...
Enjoy...

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.

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.

FUN BUT WHERE IS THE PLOT

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played the first stronghold and was very happy whith it,it had a good plot and fun levals.This one has ok levals even though they all are the same but with a differn't bad guy to fight.The other thing is were is the story plot like in the old one were the people talk to you before and afer each leval and tell you what's going on,rather than just playing a bunch of levals for no reason at all were is the fun in that.

Please help me answer a question!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. I played the demo. But i have one question. I have windows xp, stronghold: crusader supports xp. You need the full verison of stronghold to play the expansion. stronghold only supports 95/98. why would crusader support xp if you needed the full verison of stronghold that only supports 95/98. If someone has a answer please write another review telling me, and if you could please tell me how do install crusader on Xp!

Fabulously addicting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 53 / 53
Date: October 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Anyone who likes real-time strategy (Starcraft, Age of Empires) will love this game too. Especially if you were the kind of defensive player who enjoyed putting up walls and towers more than mobile armies (although both have a role in Crusader).

The economy is significantly more complex than most of the previous games in this genre, so it will take some practice to get good enough at building a stable economy that you can concentrate on warfare. (E.g. training crossbowmen requires: you are popular enough to have free peasants; you have crossbows, and leather armor; having weapons requires an armory to store them; crossbows require someone to make them, who in turn needs wood from woodcutters; leather armor requires a tanner, who needs to get cows from a dairy farm. Any one of these links can be broken, especially during warfare, and suddenly you can no longer make more crossbowmen.)

Compared to their first release (Stronghold), the minor tweaks have improved the game. A mercenary camp lets you build an army at the beginning, instead of waiting until the midgame. Trees and potential farmland are now limited to an oasis (this being the middle east instead of England), which has the effect that there are now resources to fight over from the very beginning.

But don't just take my word for it. Firefly/GOD offers a free demo (of both Stronghold and Crusader) with a few very playable, very fun levels. Get the demo and try it out! You can decide yourself whether you like the gameplay enough to purchase it.

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

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.

this game is awesome!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: October 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome especially for people who like age of empires or the first stronghold which is not as good but still fun.I highly recomend you buy this game and if your not sure then just play the demo.this game is from a helocopter point of view except not that far up and theres lots of things you can do.This game rules with diffrent traps that you can use against the enemy thats trying to get in your casle.PLEASE advice that this is not easy and YOU will need practice which is another reason i like this game.Its all that and a bag of chips.

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.

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