I prefer the lush green lands of the first game and i miss its campaign, but the addition of a skirmish mode and so many maps makes up for it. Mercenaries are a funny addition, horse archers are great.
Oh, and if you have enough religion and booze you can starve the peasants and extort ridiculous taxes from them, which i feel can be seen as a social commentary of sorts.
Oh, and if you have enough religion and booze you can starve the peasants and extort ridiculous taxes from them, which i feel can be seen as a social commentary of sorts.
Well, its less good that age of empire...
Less pretty
Less cheatcode
Less gamemode
Less content and variety of troups
A creative mods...kind of weird
And the story mod is as good as age of empire...its ok
But its still a solid game with a different pacing and with his own tweak like the multiples character that you can fight, who all have their way to attack, defend and react
But if you cant stand age of empire, avoid this game
Less pretty
Less cheatcode
Less gamemode
Less content and variety of troups
A creative mods...kind of weird
And the story mod is as good as age of empire...its ok
But its still a solid game with a different pacing and with his own tweak like the multiples character that you can fight, who all have their way to attack, defend and react
But if you cant stand age of empire, avoid this game
I have a soft spot for this game, because I played it at ripe age of 10. Very funny polish dubbing, popularity mechanic, economy, sieges. It aged well and is seemingly far superior to lets say Age of Empires. But there is something. Usually, becoming good at the game adds more satisfaction. But with Stronghold you'll discover how unbalanced and buggy it is. However, it's absolute blast for noobs! Especially versus friends.