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Addicting, non-productive fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you don't have anything to do for the next couple of months, get this game! It's fun, it's addicting. The graphics are great, the music is annoying after the first 20 minutes. It's challenging and a decent waste of time.

Would Like to see an upgrade!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, and instead of coming out with Stronghold 2 I would like to see some added features to this game. e.i. More occupations, more industries, weapons, food items, bigger stockades and keeps.

Sometimes you can improve on something, just to much.

Don't hesitate, this is great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely fantastic. You have to build up your economy, your castle, and your army. You fend off attacks and build up to take down your opponents. Strategy, graphics, economics, action... this game has it all.

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

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.

Excellent game with a lot of strategy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing "Stronghold: Crusader" for years.
It is a little old but the graphics are still decent and the game play is great.
Lots of economy building with castle building.
Lots of fighting too.

It is a combination of SIM and RTS with siege battles.
This is a very unique game that is very different from other RTS games.
There is a lot of strategy to implement here and it is fun to play against 3 or 4 opponents at once and take them out one by one.
Lots of cool units and the siege weapons are fun to play with.

This game cost only $10, so it is really a good deal.
It will also run great on older PC's.

Please note that "Stronghold 2" and ""Stronghold: Legends" are not that good compared to "Stronghold: Crusader".

This game is a must for any RTS fans.

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!

Stronghold Crusader

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Super game. Best graphics of any game I have seen. Shuold have been game of the year. Easy to learn and outstanding fun. A must have game. An unbelieveable price for under $10.

very bad game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 22
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

moderately good at first but gets boring in a few hours. Very disappointing!!! A disgrace to the makers of the game!

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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