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Expand your lands and build and fortify your citadel. Entertain with jousts, lavish feasts and tournaments or rule with an iron fist!
We've get a review of Stronghold 2 here at AOA. Click on the link below to enter a medieval world...
Game Details:
Title: Stronghold 2
Genre: Castle Simulator, Solo & Multiplayer
Published by: 2K Games
Release Date: Out now Minimum Systems Requirements:
O/S: Windows 98SE/ME/2000 & XP
Processor: 1.4 Ghz
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Video Card: 32MB GeForce 2 MX upwards
Sound: DX 9.0c compatible
Game Overview
This the third castle simulator and combat game in the Stronghold
series offers a greatly enhanced 3D graphics engine. But, what else
does this game offer to us?
In the game you play the Lord of land with your own castle, troops,
peasants, farms, estates and so on to command and control. There are
two main elements of play, management of resources and warfare.
However, you can play the game in a peaceful mode where there are no
enemy armies to deal with. The
management aspect of the game allows you, as the Lord, to construct new
buildings and gather building and food resources. You can design and
construct the castle defences including wooden and stone walls. Extra
defences can be employed, such as towers, traps and burning logs. Which
brings us on to the combat side of things. Once you have built-up
enough resources you can start to create a sizeable army which can be
used to defend your castle and outlying estates or to attack your
opposition's armies, castles and industries. The fighters range from
simple peasants armed with pikes up to siege equipment such as
trebuchets and burning carts.
A view of the land from the castle.
You can see my apple orchards near the outer walls.
Here's another castle full of troops ready for battle.
As you can see in the screenshots the textures and models used in the
game are very nicely made. The screenshots were taken in free view
mode, so the game controls are not visible.
Next up, we'll take a look at the campaign mode and the finer details of Stronghold 2.
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