If my disappointment seems tangible, it's because I've been super-excited about this game for a long time now

User Rating: 7 | Stronghold 3 PC
I was utterly disgusted by how unfinished and generally ugly this game is. The simplest of things make it unplayable like the sheer amount of food every peasant seems to require, meaning for every house you build you need to build another food producing item, that wouldn't be a problem except the maps are tiny and you never really know what is going on with your stockpile unless you click on it to check every minute as the UI is a complete and utter mess.

Granary has zero support it finding out how long you have before your rations run dry

All you hear is some loser telling you if people like you or not every 2 minutes or is it that I been playing is sooo long just to get things working right?

How the F-word can you make a "new" game without understanding why the first two were freaking awesome? Then tell everyone in your advertising that your "bringing it back" Screw you guys because I haven't seen F-all that is similar to the old games except a few little things that don't really make the game super awesome. Your the only castle builder apparently and you are failing against your own creation.

Here is a few point form bits of what I absolutely hated about this game

-Very slow moving(seriously, I spent an hour getting the economy working and I'm pro at RTS games with economy)

-Small maps. LIke you can't build a cool castle. You can maybe make a wall or a SUPER cramp and ugly castle

-Dated graphics (directX9 is used guys...9 not 11 not even 10...9)

-Campaign is dry and unimaginative- drawings talk to you, story doesn't acknowledge your existence as a key member to the game making it super hard to turn it into a fun fantasy or hard to capture yourself in the story to actually enjoy it. If I wanted this I would of read the newspaper and pretend I'm a Canadian Politician visiting the fort in Kingston.

- Oh yeah, you can't see inside your castle anymore, your lord doesn't dine or mate with his queen. He just stands there... no auto return to keep no wandering, just stands and stares. He looks East indian too. No offense at all but I was under the impression this was based on England past, not present.

-Custom maps are lacking (There is 2 playable maps... That's right 2... 2! I waited almost 10 years for 2 maps....small maps)

-Free build blows.... you get 2 maps to do F-all because there small, barren and nothing happens.

-Buildings blow up into huge piles of pieces of.... looks like pixels than stone really. They bragged they got a new engine with "real" physics (read the videos the developers released) that it's so cool and new and better than before. It actually sucks balls... A tower falls like the trade centers. I'm sorry for the reference but that's what I saw *tearing up* What they really got was a rip off because some poor sob managed to.

So many bugs its not funny- you seriously had rejects testing your stuff out because there is so many bugs I won't bother giving you a bug report (I gave it to them it's 2 pages long)

It has new music? nah it actually doesn't maybe 2 or 3 new tracks

It has new units? NO... maybe 1 new unit but abandoned several many units

Animations are the same, everything got changed around to make it rather boring actually, same voice overs. They didn't make the spearmen sound like retards though.

The game won't even say your name anymore- I found this cool in the older versions though it didn't always get your name right.....

Run away from this game. Run away from this company, they lost there minds. We all need someone to buy them out or burn them down and start over on Stronghold 4 that actually pays attention to the markets demands rather than spitting on there hopes and taking our money. at least they took mine, please don't let it happen to you too. I'm a gamer, find value in what you buy, don't follow the band wagon.