Behind the bugs and crashes lies a good game

User Rating: 6 | Stronghold 3 PC
Firefly studios promised this game to be the best in the series, it's by far not. I have only played Stonghold 1 and Stronghold 3 out of the series. But to be honest I enjoyed Stronghold 1's gameplay a lot more.

The graphics are okay they earned this rating an extra 1 point, they flow quite nicely and are up-to-date for a strategy game anyways, however when you repair walls they don't look much different. This game is THE most difficult strategy game known to man. I mean the defending is at a good dificulty but attacking is a whole new story, youre soldier AI is un-beleviably low and it's hard to get them to do what you want them to do. I gave up on this mission only at level 9. Inbetween missions there are sketches which I quite like. Now onto multiplayer side of things. The maps are unbeleivably small you cant build a big enough defense without it lying to close to the enemy. It's extremly hard to find a game as no-one plays this game... anymore and it crashes and lags too much to get a good expereince.

There are also an extraordinary amount of bugs and glitches in this game like the lord getting stuck in the keep and at the start of the game most of you soldiers are in like a hugging position as if they were still being edited.

The Campagins down right sucks due to difficulty levels and free build is kinda boring because of the tichy map sizes. The economic campagin is easy... up to level two because of over-powered god-like wolves.

Please don't waste your $40 on this game. Only buy it when it is either $20 or patched a few times.