#WARLORDS CALL TO ARMS SERIES PC#
#WARLORDS CALL TO ARMS SERIES SERIES#

One big difference from all the previous Strongholds is that Warlords is set entirely in East Asia.Д«ut the series is not called вЂњVegetable FarmвЂќ, is it? No easily the most satisfying thing in any Stronghold game, by a mile, is the building of stone walls and towers around your base, and manning them with arrow gits.

And while itвЂ™s all simplified a little to let you focus on battle, itвЂ™s still the case that production lines, food supply and the like are still central to everything you do. But thereвЂ™s a lot of city-building involved in building up a decent war machine.

Most buildy-fighty games gravitate towards one end of this spectrum or the other, which makes Warlords stand out for sitting right in the middle. Then at the other end of the scale, youвЂ™ve perhaps got ye olde Caesar III and company, which are city builders through and through, and only truly have a military component in order to add hurdles to economic challenges. At one end youвЂ™ve got stuff like Company Of Heroes, where you make a couple of token buildings, purely as strategic anchors for the fighting that the game is actually about. Imagine a sliding scale containing all games which include both making a town of some kind, and fighting. To me at least, the series is back at the top of its very slightly wonky form. But the bottom line is that IвЂ™ve found at least as much pleasure in playing it, as my 17 year-old self did with Stronghold in 2001. The answer is that IвЂ™ve had lots of fun with it! There are some caveats to go with that, sure. Instead, IвЂ™m going to review Warstrong: Lordhold as if it exists in blissful isolation from any of its bucket-helmeted elder brothers, and just say how much fun IвЂ™ve had with it. As such, this review of Stronghold: Warlords could easily get swallowed up in a long, dull attempt to compare it to every one of its predecessors, identifying which of their various features it does or does not retain, and then agonising over where among them to rank it. It had approximately two and a half million sequels, each of which was either equally ace, or a bin fire, depending on who you ask. They are about attacking and defending castles, and the 2001 original was pretty great.

#WARLORDS CALL TO ARMS SERIES PC#

If your sphere of PC game tastes includes either of the words вЂњmedievalвЂќ or вЂњRTSвЂќ, you probably know the Stronghold games. Stronghold: Warlords offers castle-based fun on a par with the series' original outing in 2001, but it's perhaps putting a little too much weight in its ambitions as a multiplayer game.

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