This game really should have been great, but they ruined it by releasing it way before it was finished. In multiplayer mode, the option to have co-op is listed on the screen, but you can not enable it. Why? Because they didn't finish adding it into the game. To load the game, takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r, even on a high end machine. Game has crashed in 2 out of 5 LAN games so far. Let's see... What else... Chat text goes off the screen. If you click on a archer and tell him to attack a unit that is far away, he will just sit around because he is not within firing range; so you have to manually move the archer into range. If you move a trebuchet once, it will automatically unpack itself... And so far, I haven't been able to find a way to pack it back up. The game is not all negatives however. The game can actually be enjoyable most of the time, despite its flaws... They are releasing patch 1.2 soon... So I hope they will have fixed the critical problems. Get this game only if you have interest in building castles, and don't mind waiting for a patch.
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