It is really useful and quite neat in my opinion. It really makes the game come to life and makes your castle look even better! The little details in the troops, walls, towers even the wood cutter huts have great textured detail in them. The graphics look great just like in SH3. Something they have not let everyone down on is graphics. Spearmen are now called Men at Arms like in SH3. The troops all have their own advantages, as well as new names. But there are also new troops such as Sargent at Arms. You can use the basic, armed peasants, spearmen, archers, crossbowmen, swordsmen etc.
There are all the basic troops you get in Crusader as well as some new ones. Which again are easy to place and can be used to your advantage in defence. There are varieties of towers, with placeable siege equipment to go with them. Of course there are many more, but this is all I can think of for now. There are a few new defences in the game as well as old ones. You can place walls through existing walls, which simply makes building the best fortress, so much easier. The walls are nothing like SH3 where it must connect to another wall in some occasions. Walls (unlike other placeable buildings) can be placed in 8 different directions (towers and gatehouses are still 4). The wall placement is back to good old Stronghold 2 and Crusader. There isn't much to say about this but as it is different to SH3, I feel it's a topic I should cover. I'm sure this is something a certain Lord_Chris would like, keeping a neat castle. It allows for tidier villages, meaning you will be able to see everything in your castle much easier and it will look much tidier overall. To some, the grid is bad, to me and most Stronghold fans it's a must. This means everything can be placed in 4 different directions, where as without a grid you can place it in over 12.
All the Strongholds, except for Stronghold 3 (as far as I know) use the grid. Now for those of you who don't understand, the grid is the area of placement you have. Something that I love is the good old grid. Now allow me to discuss the game, more in-depth. The graphics look great and although it looks strange at first, after playing the second mission you are back into good old Stronghold.
The game is far more optimized, meaning a decent computer could run it at 60 FPS (Frames Per Second) while maintaining fair eye-candy. Yes the game is similar in the way of UI and the gameplay, but it is different in the way that they have perfected what they could not in SH3. Now straight away I had the awful thought that I had spent ?35 on a game, which like Stronghold 3 was broken.īut this is simply not true. I thought this because of the UI (User Interface) and the way you rotated the camera. My first impression of the game automatically made me think of SH3. I hope this review will help you decide whether to buy the game or not, or if you'd just like something to read then here we go.Īfter playing the game for 3 hours, playing through the first 2 campaigns and starting the 3rd, also playing 2 matches of skirmish, this is what I have thought of the game so far. The long awaited sequel was released today and as promised my review of the game is here.
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