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Product Description King of the Castle: 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 and your barracks are desperately empty... just another typical day for a medieval lord in FireFly Studios' Stronghold 3. Since fi rst launching in 2001, the Stronghold series has become one of the most respected in its genre thanks to its mix of precision village building, fastpaced 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. From the Manufacturer Stronghold 3 is the long-awaited third installment in the award winning castle-building series. Set 10 years after the original, the Wolf has cheated death, and during his painful recovery he's become even more bitter and twisted. Now he seeks revenge. Raiding villages and towns during the dead of night, the Wolf has created a tide of panic. You and your allies are the only force that stand against him. In this stunning new update to the world's favorite Castle Sim - will you triumph by day or die by night?FeaturesBuild and manage mighty castles with an improved building system allowing unprecedented levels of realism and intricacyRealistic physics and cutting-edge graphics make siege warfare more brutal than everWatch your village spring to life in an amazing depiction of medieval village lifeStory-driven gameplay engages players across two campaigns: combat or economic Dramatic night time sieges add a new dimension to the Stronghold franchiseBesiege other players' castles or defend your own in a range of action-packed online multiplayer modesAttack or defend accurately re-created castles from the pages of history. Will you succeed where others failed?Minimum System Requirements Processor: Dual Core CPU – 2.0GHZ Operating System: Windows® XP SP3/ Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7 Video: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card Memory: 2GB RAM Hard Disk Space: 5 GB Free DVD-ROM Drive: Required for disc-based installation DirectX®: DirectX® version 9.0cRecommended System Requirements Processor: 1.8 GHz Quad Core CPU Operating System: Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7 Video: 512 MB ATI 4800 series or better, 512 MB nVidia 9800 series or better Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card Memory: 4 GB RAM Hard Disk Space: 5 GB Free DVD-ROM Drive: Required for disc-based installation DirectX®: DirectX® version 11
Create realistic castles and intricate village economies with the improved building system
For the fi rst time in the Stronghold series experience the drama of a night time siege
Realistic physics, cutting edge graphics and lighting bring castle sieges to life in stunning detail
Story-driven gameplay engages players across two campaigns combat or economic
Besiege other castles online in a range of action-packed multiplayer modes
This will be more of a comment then a review, but both.I've loved the Stronghold series for 10 years. When I heard about SH3 I was happy as I could be.Everyone dislikes this game because 7Sixty pushed the game out before it was ready to release and it was buggy due to that fact. It was not buggy at all by FireFly's fault.98% of the bugs have been fixed as of 1/29/2012.I didn't have half the bugs people were talking about anyways.. Just a few graphical bugs(that have been fixed) and a few VERY MINOR gameplay bugs.As for a couple of comments I saw here about the DVD being empty and it being a Steam Download... Bull crap.. I opened up the CD and found 3.4GB of content in there, including the setup.exe, model files, texture files, game setting files, coding and more. The DVD is in no way empty.Now for my review..(kinda short)Fun game. Once you update the game all the bugs are fixed, and the game is really fun. Sure it would have been better if it had some more content, like King Maker, but They were going for a different idea then SH2 or SH:C. Graphics are breath taking from the previous games. No not BattleField 3 graphics, but really really good for and RTS game. New lighting effects, intense map editor, better animations, better models and new weather.. All thanks to the new engine they used.Recap.Graphics: 5/5Gameplay: 4/5Map Editor: 5/5Content: 4/5Fanboy attraction: 100/5P.S. If your hoping for a manual or something, don't expect it. All that comes in the case( I bought a hard copy) is a code for DLC(Which I have yet to see?) and the install guide with the Steam code. Box is really pretty, has a folding cover with beautiful screen shots. Nice thick box an case.. none of that slim stuff!
