After all the hype and craze I got my hands on Stronghold 2, expecting something extraordinary and fun. What I got however was a bland and redundant base building game with little strategy. Upon starting up the game, I was greeted with a 2 minute long load screen, how exciting it is to wait, specially with high end system specs, turns out this game has more memory leaks than Microsoft's windows 98. if the memory leaks we'rent enough, getting 20 frames per second in a game that looks like it was made in the year 2000 really put the icing on the cake. The maps are the size of a football field, there's clipping everywhere and the units walk around as if they're blindfolded. The campaign missions are some of the most terribly designed atrocities ever seen in a RTS. Mission descriptions are lacking, unit managment is harder than picking up a grain of salt with beer goggles and overall flow of storyline is non existant. I could go on forever on how much of a disappointment this game is, but then again I've got better things to do.
I have been playing Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader since they came out all those years ago and I loved them. So it was with great anticipation that I picked up a copy of the new version, installed it and sat back ... Read Full Review
Stronghold 2: Man the parapets If you’re not of the age to remember when living in a castle was the day to day business, then Stronghold 2, from firefly studios, will be the closest thing you can get to without litera... Read Full Review
