Your castle walls are being smashed by siege engines, an enemy catapult surrounded by troops is rumbling ever closer, your villagers are starving, wolves have been spotted in a nearby cave, your barracks are desperately empty... just another typical day for a medieval lord in FireFly Studios' Stronghold 3. Since first launching in 2001, the Stronghold series has become one of the most respected in its genre thanks to its mix of precision village building, fast-paced real-time gameplay and dramatic sieges with hundreds of enemies swarming over your castle. Stronghold 3 promises to be the best yet, with a keep full of fantastic new features that ensure old and new fans alike experience a gritty slice of medieval life.
No AI, no skirmish, almost no castle building. If it is like the first one I'm glad I never played that hunk of garbage.
I just have to keep asking - why? Why would you release a game with no skirmish, no AI, a game that is hard to control, makes hardly any sense in the universe and makes the whole franchise look so bad?
This is literally one of the worst games ever made. I know that Firefly are talented people so it makes it even worse to see such a pointless and horrible product released by one of my favourite company.
Stronghold was one of my favorite games to emulate the life of the old times during castles, kings, and then some but Stronghold 3 really killed it.
Mainly the game has no A.I. at all so anyone you set to work will never finish their tasks and will often end up wasting time and popularity.
The less said about this trainwreck? the better..
lacks everything that made its previous titles so entertaining sure the somewhat "physics" are a neat "tweak" and graphics are good but aside from that it really is just a down grade from the previous stronghold games (and it's not just because they took out skirmish mode just to clarify) its buggy, ai sucks, custom map building took a dive off a cliff, and story is really short in my opinion and honestly wasn't that good just felt like i was playing the first stonghold story again in ways. if they had made it fairly mod-able it would have helped but only just
My childhood memories... lost in ruins of this garbage...
This was truly a tragedy for gamers. There are so many things I could list that I hated about this game, but I'll try to briefly sum it up. Stronghold 3 was released before it was ready to be played.
Stronghold = OK
Stronghold: Crusader = Good
Stronghold 2 = Better
Stronghold: Legends = Good
Stronghold 3 = Bad
Seriously was 2K drunk when they made this or what?
First i was amazed and then at the end it all turned out like ****. R.I.P Stronghold series.
no skirmish that was the big drop
sucked in simple terms SUCKED ******* ***
Since they have fixed the bugs it has improved greatly.