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Stronghold Legends

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Ok first off the idea is a really good one. I have always loved the medevil ages type games. Between this game and Stronghold 2 Stronghold 2 wins by a mile. In Stronghold Legends they do add alot of new units and I find it to be a much cooler, funner game with dragons and wizards. It makes it more of a medevil ages type game. The problem with this game is that they took away to much of what made stronghold stand out from the other medevil games. In Legends you get only stone walls, No wood walls. And where as most people would find that to not be a big deal I find it to be stupid. This is because you may not always have a ton of stone to work with but you almost always have MORE then enough wood. You get to make moats (Arthur only) but you don't get drawbridges. (whats the point in a moat if you can't use it to protect your WHOLE castle.) It says in the book that your gatehouse is seen as a soft target and must be garded well. And yet you can't build a moat in front of it otherwise no one can get in OR OUT of your castle. Along with your gatehouses you have no control over them being open or closed. They just always stay closed until one of your troops get close to it, then it automaticly opens for him. The problem I have found with this is that one of my guys walked up to the gate and the enemy walked right in with him. Almost as if they where long lost friends who where both serving diffrent kings. "Hey Phil" the enemy would say. "Oh hey Chuck, hows it going" my guy would say back. "Oh its going good. My King...your kings enemy...has told me to come kill your king. You mind if I come in." the enemy would ask. "Well I don't think my king would like you killing him....but....you ARE my friend from 30 years ago and I was sorta able to trust you back then. So....Sure come on in Chuck." The game has changed too much over the years. The very first stronghold was awsome for its time. Then stronghold 2 came out which is way better then the first one but its pretty much the same exact game. And then they had this AWSOME idea to make Stronghold Legends and its a really good idea its just they took away too much of what made Stronghold a TRUE castle builder. If you want a good castle builder game go with Stronghold 2 but don't spend the money on Stronghold Legends. You get to do SOOOOO much more in Stronghold 2.

I recently received Stronghold Legends as a gift. Since then, I've really enjoyed this version of Stronghold. I'm quite familiar with Stronghold 2 (the prior version of Stronghold) and found playing Legends to be an easy transition. The graphics are sharp, colorful, and realistic. The AI is reasonable, and the computer makes good decisions which have been quite challenging during the missions played so far. The game is set up where you can play online against other players, or you can play directly against the computer. If you choose the computer, initially, there are 2 routes: the campaign and Legend trails route. I'm currently playing the campaign, which has been challenging at the moderate setting (vs. the easy or hard setting). Playing the campaign and Legends trail helps you to master the economy and battle aspects of the game. Then, you are free to set up your own skirmishes with the computer in Kingmaker mode, etc. Overall, the game is challenging and provides many hours of fun for the gamer who enjoys simulated castle adventures.

To me Stronghold Legends is not as fun as stronghold crusader. I preferred the dessert look over this forest green. Plus I didn't really like the 3D effects when someone would get catapulted, they used to just splat now they get scattered and get right back up. I have to say that the first stronghold game was the best.

Its really bad. First off its super buggy - I have yet to have a game last longer then 30 minutes without a crash, had to reinstall it like 5 times and best of all it doesnt have LAN multiplayer (in this day and age which is a crime).

Second, it adds new units but takes old ones away, they havent improved the graphics at all - so the ones that looked bad in Stronghold 2 now look really bad, the economic side of its been killed off, its all about combat now but they havent fixed the combat system up.

So its become a bland generic RTS with bad graphic rather then a quicky, fun, differnt castle sim with bad graphics.

My son loves the game, but with vista it seem to want to freeze up often.

Why do we as consumers continue to 'PAY' for companies like FireFly studios mistakes. For all of the companies out there that create bad games which include so many damn bugs, glitches, and oh did I mention bugs and glitches?,PLEASE pluck it out and re-think before sending out a game that's going to tarnish your reputation. Honestly, consumers in the game world don't buy brand designer names we could care less, we buy a game for how it feels when you play it. But gamers do know what companies out there are sending out bad buggy crappy games and will avoid them at all cost. Actually, this was a serious burn to me as I should've done better research on this game before buying it, at the same time, if we had companies that gave a crap for the consumer this wouldn't be an issue. Aside from the fact that the game freezes up, and has to be re-installed over and over, and needs more patch work than a broken down battle ship this game is pretty good..oh and as long as you like to play a game for just about twenty minutes. FireFly studios should give everyone not only an appology for making crappy software they should send everyone a check for the money that they've stolen from consumers. Of course, they're laughing all the way to the bank on this game.

since getting this game as a christmas gift, ive spent many hours playing it. i really dont have much experience with these types of games so i cant comment on how it stacks up against other games in the same genere. i can comment on how easy it was to get aquainted with the functions of the game. the tutorial mode really helps.