Verdict - Stronghold 3

The French revolutionaries were unpleasantly surprised when, after a short but violent storming of the Bastille fortress found in only seven inmates: four smugglers, two loonies and one disliked his own father aristocrat. Similar feelings and causes Stronghold 3: the game expecting at least the possibility to build your own impregnable castle, but it turns out that all of your fantasies will be implemented in a desktop or Minecraft Carcassonne.


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The essence of the original Stronghold was, recall, just about this - about how from scratch with your concerns erected walls and towers are indestructible, invincible army is going to, and have built all this splendor commoners rejoice, praising visionary leader. The developers were mixed in the same game just three types of strategy: economic, and military construction. In Stronghold 3 are the same people have tried to formally preserve the key elements of the formula devised by the same, but suffered a fiasco.

The most savage in the game - this is war. Over the soldiers in the Stronghold 3 obviously worked Oorfene Deuce. Inhibited fools stuck in the buildings during the siege of fighting in the castle walls like flies in a glass and respond to commands through one.

Adequately maneuver even a small army - an extremely difficult task. About any tactical build of speech did not go: What kind of tactics, when in most cases it's hard to tell to tell in advance how to react to subordinates on your team - will go on the attack, will be engaged in digging the trench in the middle or just march by the enemy. Everything - from the fact that the game requires the utmost precision. If you missed the mark on the pixel to the left or right, try not to be counted.

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You can certainly turn a blind eye to the awkward combat mechanics and the economic part to do, especially as Stronghold 3 just offers two single-player campaign to choose from - military and economic. But it did not save us from disappointment.

You need only a good time all obmozgovat, to determine the optimal number of buildings and their location, and then the mission for the mission to build the same village. Actually, the game will push you to do this: In Stronghold 3 has only two possible solutions to any problem: preset and wrong.

Thematic division campaign, incidentally, quite arbitrary. Both assume that your settlement will be developed each time in the same way - with sufficient protection from enemies and operating infrastructure.

There is, however, and a third mode - free. But it eventually turns out to be flawed: the maps are small and to build something really interesting to spend a lot of years and play real-time clock: while the peasants gather enough resources to build the walls.