Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)MacPlay have done a great job porting the PC game over to Mac.The game plays well and looks good.I haven't noticed any bugs.
The game is a riproaring Real Time Strategy/city builder game where you get to build a castle and its economy (everything from wheat farms to armorers) and then defend it against raging attackers.
The game is a terrible simulation of siege warfare because it confuses months and minutes.Unlike in Warcraft, nothing takes time to build, provided you have the raw materials for it.You can be building new walls or training up fresh archers in the same time it takes for enemy spearmen to climb ladders up your walls.You never have enough time to plan your castle, while in "real life" you'd have nothing but time while the masons laboriously placed stone on stone.It's also silly that spearmen can level a stone castle wall just by picking at it.These were clearly decisions to make gameplay more exciting, and if it's a fast game you're looking for, you'll like those decisions.If you like a thoughtful game like Civ 3, look elsewhere.
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Product Description:
Simply put, Stronghold is a castle simulator. Your job is to create the best castle you can, then defend it against the hostile approaching hordes. You build and govern authentic medieval castles and plan campaigns to repel attacks through a brilliant combination of simulation and real-time strategy game styles. To overthrow your adversaries you must create an impenetrable fortress from a massive selection of historical buildings, troops, and war machines. It's not all warfare; in order to succeed, you must keep your peasants happy and productive, plan for current needs and future expansion, and, of course, execute cunning castle design.
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