![]() There are quite a number of typos in the manual.įor the most part, the manual is serious and to the point about the gameplay of Stronghold Crusader. If the player is playing Stronghold Crusader through the “ Extreme” package, the manual is distributed in the form of a rather sloppily-done scan. (Some of these are broken too this will be described later.) This includes the mappings for keyboard shortcuts, which, unfortunately, cannot be changed in-game. ![]() The game makes use of some of the premise for what pass as the tutorials for the game.Īs to be expected, most of what the player needs to know in order to play the game is in the manual. Still, it has to be said here that if the player is looking for a game which has a more faithful take on the Crusades (pun very much intended), he/she can do better than Stronghold Crusader HD. ![]() At the very least, the game is more-or-less up-front in mentioning that it is not historically accurate. Of course, not all of the events which are mentioned in the game are real at all. In addition to the obvious conflicts between the Crusaders and the Middle Easterners, there are the conflicts which arose from the collapse of the Crusades as well as so many attempts by petty lords to grab power in the Holy Land for themselves. It includes portrayals of the conflicts of this era, though “portrayals” is perhaps a word which the game does not deserve because of the liberties which the game takes. (This is one of the ‘steps’ in the installation of Stronghold Crusaders.)Īs mentioned earlier, Stronghold Crusaders – and its HD version - is based on the Crusades. Some game-makers just can’t let go of newsletters as a way of marketing their games with their other games. Perhaps what has been said so far here is a tad too cynical, but once one plays the game, he/she would understand. Later, Firefly Studios went on to exploit the Crusades, by creating a spin-off series which is called – unsurprisingly – Stronghold Crusaders.Ī decade after the debut of the spin-off, Firefly Studios decided that it should jump on another fad band-wagon: re-releasing old games with spruced-up graphics and slapping the label “HD” on them. Not to miss out on the trend during the turn of the previous millennium, Firefly Studios created the Stronghold series, initially with the intent of exploiting the wars in the medieval age of Europe. ![]() Historical wars make for very good settings for real-time strategy games, as can be seen in the Age of Empires series. By Gelugon_baat | Review Date: December 2, 2014 ![]()
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