Stronghold 2 Review

[pevergreen]

So its an RTS, not a city building game? Because you compared it to R&F: Civ's at War, which is an RTS/FPS (sorta FPS) hybrid.

Ceaser II was a city builder, Phaoroh is a city builder.

I've been tempted by the Stronghold series a few times, but better games keep being there, like SF IV now.

[Raz]

The game is terrible, I honestly regret paying money for that game, which has only ever happened once before. Out of the box the game just explodes on you with terrible flaws (try stopping your soldiers as they go through a staircase). If you can survive long enough to apply patches the game still shocks you with some lethal CTD's and exceptionally poor AI. Anyway so I slipped stronghold 2 back in it's box after patch 1.3.2 (or some v1.3 patch). Afterward I just played Stronghold 1 and Stronghold Crusader and never touched SH2 again.

Please Note: I'm a gameplay over graphics kinda guy - I play morrowind over oblivion, mtw over m2tw, final fantasy III over X, and I play roguelikes which are so graphically impaired that you just cannot, under any circumstances, take a screenshot and expect someone to be amazed. So naturally you'd expect my opinion on Stronghold 2 to be quite unimpressed. Heh.

[Prussian to the Iron]

well, ive never encountered any CTD's. the staircase thing is right though, but ive only encountered it maybe 3 times...


@pevergreen: actually it is more of a city-building game. perhaps the comparison was off, but the other games there were city-builders too.