S:C Brief

User Rating: 8 | Stronghold: Crusader PC
This was a LAN favorite for quite some time back in the day. We had many awesome battles fighting over the small barren maps. However, once we learned the ropes, it was quite often a stalemate between human players, and a complete anhilation of AI Bots.
Apparently when they programmed this game, they forgot to put in intelligent AI. It is way to easy to win a match even when its you versus 4 or 5 (using a certain strategy). So dont expect to have much of a challenge, especially once you know how to play.
Besides this point, the game was really fun. It was simple, polished RTS that focuses more on battles than on resource gathering. Hurray!
The graphics are poor by todays standards, and the options are even worse, but you dont really notice it all that much once you load up. You busy keeping track of your idiot soldiers and watching the happy/sad meter of your towns people. Fun fun...
This game would deserve a recommendation for some older RTS fans, and some really new players, that dont know the ropes of modern RTS. I would also recommend this for people that are bored and want to have a few fun games before buying Rise of Legends, or AoE3. Just check it out, youll have fun for at least 15 games!