‘Knights of Honor’ is an extraordinary real-time strategy game but the 2D mode graphics almost ruin everything. It could’ve had a pretty high score if the graphics would’ve been 3D and much better. In fact it could’ve reached Rome: Total War and maybe could’ve been able to exceed it. But anyway let’s talk about what it is not what it could’ve been. The game still has its good sides that make you forget about the 2D graphics and the moments of battle mode (which is annoying) but if you want you can let the computer handle the battles which is what I often do. What really surprised me is that you can choose more than 100 catholic, pagan, orthodox and muslim countries from 3 different eras. The campaign mode is great I mean It has so many features like: making allies; making royal weddings to improve and strengthen your relations with your allies; managing your economies, your trade income; signing ‘trade rights’ pacts, non-aggression pacts and alliance pacts; building, creating your armies; kingdom advantages; the Royal Court let’s you manage your Marshals, Spies, Clerics, Merchants etc. and your heirs; and you can give your spies duties to infiltrate into other Kingdom’s Royal Court, and so much more that just make you enjoy the game more than any other game and I gotta say that the fact of being able to recruit different kinds of Knights is really great. There are some other great features for example if you’re catholic the Pope can call one of your armies for a Crusade against muslims, pagans or orthodox kingdoms and if you refuse to lead a crusade that’s been asked from you the pope will excommunicate you so you have 2 choices, either accept or refuse, but if you choose the second one you will have much problems later. The Game also has some great soundtracks and the sounds in campaign mode are good, but the sounds of battle in battle mode are too bad, in fact for me they’re very annoying. The Game has a very simple tutorial which makes everything so much easier for you for learning everything you need to build an empire. You can try play the campaign without playing the tutorial first but you will have many difficulties along the game in the beginning and probably you will get nervous and leave it so as an advice try the tutorial first. Those who worship real-time strategy games and like playing in the campaign-map mode should really try this one but those who like to play in the battle mode, hmm I wouldn’t prefer this for them because of the 2D graphics. I hope my review was useful to you.
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