Craft Custom Maps – Create and share custom scenarios via Steam Workshop using the in-game map editor.Take the Crown – Gain Honour by title, strategy or force and dominate the new ‘Kingmaker’ skirmish mode.Simulate Castle Life – Duel inside buildings, hold lavish banquets or build a war economy and lay siege to rival lords.Rule as You Desire – Rehabilitate or simply execute thieving peasants using everything from gibbets to gallows!.Stronghold Reforged – Enjoy Steam multiplayer, Workshop, achievements, visual enhancements, new maps and more!.With powerful barons jostling for power over a disintegrating kingdom, it is up to you to stem the tides of ambition and unite the land under the one true King! With an intricate economy, siege warfare, crime and punishment systems and classic medieval events, this highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Stronghold comes packed with new additions to classic Stronghold gameplay. Entertain your subjects or rule with an iron fist, dispensing medieval justice to overworked and malnourished peasants. The game was obviously shipped without a fully functioning AI.Stronghold 2: Steam Edition allows players to experience true ‘castle life’ gameplay. The narrator who provides tips on enemy attacks frequently comes out with lines like, "Woodsmen have seen a band of enemy troops heading this way!" right before they turn around and head back home. They often don't react to crossbowmen or archers firing away at them, either, and sometimes choose to walk away from battles or abandon sieges. Enemy troops often continue patrolling mindlessly and actually ignore huge columns of your soldiers even after you've just smashed down or climbed a castle wall. But lack of imagination is the least of the game's issues. You start at point A and kill everything until you reach point B, you defend a fortress until the clock runs out, and so on. Most missions are laid out in an extremely linear fashion. More play testing was also needed to root out some big problems with mission design and artificial intelligence. And just breathing on the frail Merlin seems to kill him. Giants can be ganged up on by regular infantry grunts like pikemen and felled quicker than you can say fee-fi-fo-fum. Dragons, for instance, are second-rate compared to Tolkien's Smaug and can be taken out by well-placed archers.
Yet while these beasties add color to Stronghold Legends, and some cool moments like giants stomping pesky soldiers with their feet and Merlin blasting archers with lightning bolts, they don't do much for gameplay.
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