Stronghold (Jewel Case)

List Price: $9.99 Discount Price: $39.99

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PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

"A stronghold of a game!" [Posted on 2004-03-23]
this game is filled with action. you lay seige to youre foes while defending youre own keep. it not just for the war types either you can also play economic missions and simply deal with the problem of youre people being happy. all in all this is and cool game for the young mind.

As good as Age of Empires [Posted on 2004-07-06]
Me and my kids are AOE2 fans and love the battles, and this game is a great network gamers addiction. We play for hours on the weekend. Quite different play than AOE, with a bit more detail to the issues of running a kingdom. If you own AOE, than you have to get this game or the Crusader version as well.

Stronghold- One of the top RTS games on the market [Posted on 2004-07-19]
It's a rare thing when an unknown company comes out and makes an amazing product. Especially when there is such a tough market in the gaming industry these days. With many realtime strategy games on the market, you have to make a good one to come out on top, and that is what Firefly Studios has done with Stronghold.

Stronghold is an amazing combination of realistic Castle building and realtime strategy. And unlike most other strategy games, you have to maintain a happy population. Things such as charging taxes upon your population decreases their happiness. Providing them with large rations of food increases their happiness. If their happiness drops below 50%, you start losing your population, sometimes leading to the loss of the game. It takes some skill to maintain a good population, with all the factors involved in this sim.

Firefly Studios also did a great job with the combat side of the game. There are many units, including crossbowmen, knights, pikemen, and seige equipment such as trebuchets. You can even design your own maps to play on with the map editor the game contains. There are even famous castles availible for download on the internet. One of them is the Tower of London, and all of the castles are designed the same way as the original castles were.

This game is sure to keep you occupied for hours at a time, and it becomes addicting, with the realistic gameplay and the intense battles. Stronghold is sure to make an impact on your view of gaming. And another great thing is it's low cost. Buy it, you won't regret it.

A castle of fun!!! [Posted on 2005-02-06]
This game combines many elements that make a great strategy game all in one. It is one of the few interesting castle games out there and should be looked into by anyone, even if you are usually not into games. Build castles, defend your fortress, defeat an enemy lord and keep your people happy in this marvelous piece of work. This game truly does deserve attention and should be respected on the market as it is. If you havent looked into this series yourself, I would reccommend you start soon. Just remember - don't miss out on the fun!!!

Very fun game, with some challenges to keep you busy! [Posted on 2005-04-03]
This game I think is excellant if you enjoy a stratigy/command type of game. It's realistic (for example, you have to gather and prepare wood and "hire" a soldier to get a bowman, instead of just clicking on a button and suddenly the person pops out of no where), and very fun. Each soldier and "citizen" has a semiunique personality. I have seen better graphics, but for the price of the game, and the amount of depth that it goes into, its worth it. Finally, Stronghold is not only fun to play, its also challenging so you don't get boried within the first hour of playing it. The sceniros start out fairly "easy", and then get gradualy more and more challenging. Of the people I've talked to, most could beat the first 4 or 5 sceniros in the first day. Also, the game has a quite outstanding map builder, where you can basically do what the game programers did. You can design every aspect of the terrin,howbig the map is, how many resources there are, how big the castle is and how many people are in it, the attacking force, when things happen(theives, fire, etc.) and that sort of thing. You basically get to start from the ground up. Overall, this game is most definetly worth it:a lot of quality game, for a realativly low price.

Note:If you liked the Age of Empires series, and Age of Mythology, then you'll most likely enjoy this game very much!

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