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real-time strategy
Stronghold: Crusader
By Firefly Studios, released 1 Jan 2002
- Microsoft Windows
- simulation video game
What it is
Stronghold: Crusader HD is a real-time strategy and simulation game from Firefly Studios, built around Crusades-era battles, castle sieges and skirmish missions. It includes four historical campaigns and more than 100 skirmish missions, with AI opponents and new units. You can play as Richard the Lionheart or Saladin, and the campaigns cover conflicts from the First, Second and Third Crusades as well as struggles within Crusader states. The HD battlefield view lets you zoom out to see the whole map on one screen. The package includes Stronghold Crusader and Stronghold Crusader Extreme, which adds a few elements to the original game. Steam features include single-player and multiplayer, PvP and online PvP, a level editor, Steam Cloud, Trading Cards and Family Sharing. Stronghold: Crusader HD is listed for Windows and was released in 2013.
What players like, and what they don't
- Four historical campaigns
- More than 100 skirmish missions
- HD view shows the whole map
- Includes Crusader Extreme and a level editor
- Windows is the only listed platform
- No co-op feature is listed
Who it suits
It suits strategy players interested in castle sieges, historical campaigns and skirmishes against AI opponents. Multiplayer and PvP options may also suit groups looking for competitive battles.
Stronghold: Crusader HD combines campaign battles, skirmishes and castle tactics, with both Crusader and Extreme included. The whole-map battlefield view and level editor add options beyond its campaigns.
