#Stronghold 3 skirmish series
I love the stronghold series and I ALWAYS give a game a good opportunity to impress me before I make a decision. I love the stronghold series and I ALWAYS give a game a good opportunity to impress me before I wish all of the other reviews were incorrect. I wish all of the other reviews were incorrect.
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The dreadful reviews will start pouring in soon - hold off on that purchase, wait till you find it in the bargain bin, which won't be very long. Many aspects of the gameplay are quite simply broken, and there is no skirmish mode, just a horrible lackluster campaign. You have to be worried when a castle building game doesn't give your troops any defensive bonus at all for being behind walls - none whatsoever. The game simply isn't worth playing in it's current state, and it's merely a throwback to Stronghold 2 and not the original and best Stronghold 1. Mission design is poor, the maps are tiny, the animations are rudimentary and the graphics engine is glitchy. They've had to make this game on a shoestring budget, and it shows from the beginning with the bugs and the use of black and white drawings in place of cinematics. Pre-ordering games just doesn't pay nowadays as developers seem determined to release their unfinished, unpolished, half-implemented rubbish on the paying public. This game is an unfinished, buggy mess and I wish I could get my money back.
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This game I've come online to get this review in early in the hope that I can save other Stronghold fans from making the same mistake I did.
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I've come online to get this review in early in the hope that I can save other Stronghold fans from making the same mistake I did.