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Stronghold 3 drops you into the boots of a feudal lord, charged with settling a plot of land, managing an economy, fighting bad guys, and completing missions. And castles! Proper castles, with gates and walls and great big cauldrons of burning pitch to...
Stronghold 3 will set you back £30. Total War: Shogun 2 can be found for £14 online, and Dwarf Fortress is free (but you should donate). Stronghold might have been great once, but that castle has long since crumbled. Spend your ducats elsewhere...
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Some of the greatest disappointments in life are born out of high expectations. In the case of Stronghold, a franchise rightfully beloved for being an outlet for all of those childhood fantasies of building forts and repelling the forces of darkness, y...
Designing giant castles, Large selection of buildings and units, Massive sieges...
Dated graphics, Broken mechanics, Annoying micromanagement...
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Noted poet Thomas Earl Petty once told us that the waiting is the hardest part, a lesson that is painfully taught once again in Stronghold 3. The Firefly Studios game of medieval micromanagement may have been a long time coming, since Stronghold 2 was...
Atmospheric music, Patches are gradually stomping bugs and adding in needed game features.
Slowpaced, repetitive scenarios, Terrible tutorial leaves many key game concepts unexplained, Buggy and prone to crashes, Shallow combat and sieges.
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There are brief, fleeting moments when Stronghold 3’s mix of medieval RTS and city building coalesce into something enjoyable. Garrisoning troops in watchtowers, using trebuchets to launch diseased cattle at the enemy, then switching back to your Keep...
Frustrating for newcomers and disappointing for veterans, Stronghold 3 is a combat overhaul away from being any good...
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Stronghold 3 is an unfinished, broken game. Somewhere along the line, a decision was made to release this version of the castle-building franchise and expect consumers to pay full retail for an obviously flawed and sub-par product. For that, there is r...
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I came into the Stronghold series with Stronghold 2, and as such I am one of those seemingly rare individuals that liked the second version. However, my appreciation for the game, even with its heavy economic micromanaging, can be attributed to my pref...
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Militarily, my castle was under seige and peasants meandered between the burning arrows and explosives that were lobbed over my walls. My soldiers and lord waddled glacially towards the northern breach in my castle walls to escape, unresponsive to the...
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Stronghold 3 is a sequel in the long-running, castle-building, real-time strategy franchise created by FireFly Studios. Basic tenets of its gameplay include constructing awe-inspiring castles and witnessing glorious displays of brutal medieval sieges...
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This sloppy strategy game suffers from some strange design choices, unbalanced combat, and a glacial pace.Stronghold 3 drops you into the boots of a feudal lord, charged with settling a plot of land, managing an economy, fighting bad guys, and completi...
Neat animations; attractive visuals.
Painfully slow pace; flawed design choices add unnecessary delay to simple tasks; microscopic maps.
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Updated: 2012-01-25 07:00:26
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If the last few years have taught me anything, it's that the global economy is a delicate machine, and the boot heels of the greedy can all-to-easily trample it, and the lives of millions along with it, underfoot. A balance must be struck between the w...
Passion alone isn't enough to make a game great. Stronghold 3 assumes too much of the user initially, and doesn't do enough to keep the village-building fresh and interesting. Bugs and instability plague the user and combat is still a bit of a mess. De...
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2001's Stronghold was a very good, and very European game. Finally you could build up an entire castle from the ground up, man the walls with your units, and manage the feudal economy to support all of it. It was the kind of game they go nuts over in...
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Many gamers are wary about Stronghold 3—which isn't surprising, considering that Stronghold 2 was widely considered a disappointment. To save the franchise, developer Firefly has tried to eliminate the overly complicated elements that made Stronghold 2...
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If there’s one thing I can say that’s positive about Stronghold 3, it’s that the game has a lot of charm, an awful lot. In fact, Stronghold 3 is so charming it would have Cinderella’s pants off before Prince Charming even arrived at the ball. Yet afte...
If there’s one thing I can say that’s positive about Stronghold 3, it’s that the game has a lot of charm, an awful lot. In fact, Stronghold 3 is so charming it would have Cinderella’s pants off before Prince Charming even arrived at the ball. Yet afte...
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