Really sad how the series went down from an epic game to this. I rated 6.5 to give the game a boost up only
Sadly the series is going down which reminded me of the Empire earth series and how it slowly vanished as well.
Now I gotta admit, they really tried hard to bring back the old SH 1 style to the game. But they did not achieve that, they brought back minor ideas from the original, keeping the ones that people hated from 2.
The music is amazing, and I really love how they brought back the original soundtracks to give you a good old nostalgic feeling as a last resort.
seems like the graphics needed a bit more time, it could'v been much more improved.
They were right about the physics system in the game (gotta give them that) HOWEVER, There are some really BIG bugs in the game that just takes away the fun. For example, when pickmen were attacking a normal wall while around 15 archers were on it. They basically got blown away for some reason by this normal small picking of that wall.
The new happiness system is a fail (also bugged lots of times it gets buggy and gives me strange readings) But I really loved the old one where you have a 100 points and it slowly fades out or get gained.
All in All, I think people loved the simplicity that were available in Strong Hold 1 And Crusaders. The old style where you can bring 100 archers knowing how much they have of health and knowing how they will die or how the enemies's will die.
anyways, I really really love to see the SH series gets back on its feat. We are losing more and more strategic games by the years starting with the Age of empires series, going through Empire earth and ending up with Strong hold