Stardock reacted quickly at fixing the bugs. This game is stable, a lot fun and awesome!
Game Spot review is wrong, version 1.07 have all the major problems fixed including the performance issue. They are releasing frequent patches that improves everything and add improvements to the game. The development team work is tremendous.
This game is so addictive you will loose numerous hours on it. And its re-playability is great!!!
The strongest features are :
- You can design your avatar that will be in the game.
- Tactical battles are fun with a rock, paper, scissors type of game.
- You can hire NPC (champions) with all kind of specialties.
- Your avatar, the king, and your champions will level-up as they gain experience. You decide what parameters to increase.
- Cities also level-up and the gain bonus of your choice each time.
- The dynasty system is good. It's fun to see you sons and daugther or grand sons, etc. in your armies.
- The 3D graphic is sooo awesome. It fits well the fantastic world your in.
- The game easy to learn but tough to master. Good luck at fighting Giants, Golem, demons and ... dragons!
- Everything is turn based, so no click fest. You need to think ahead how you want to play it. There is 4 ways to win.
- There is so many things to do, you will never feel bored. Manage your heroes, explore, build your cities up, train your army, negotiate, go to war, research technologies, research spells, get into quests ... and more.
- The modding tools are impressive, you can make an all new game by yourself (Tolkien world!!!).
I recommend it to anybody that likes turn based strategy games in a fantastic medieval worlds!