Thank goodness I got this game for 80% off on a sale. It is in no way a $50 AAA title. Graphics are a throwback to a good 10 years ago. Game momentarily freezes every time it does a save and then jerks around your last input request as it catches up. Crashed or locked up a couple times already. The game's overall pacing is much quicker than I recall, too, being less like a "castle sim" and more like a standard RTS that happens to have slightly more advanced than usual wall construction. Control inputs and notifications are out-of-date (no queing of orders? no notice when enemies are knocking down my buildings?)

A.I. is a nice challenge. Very well done in that regard. It's the only reason I'm tempted to recommend this game. The technical problems and downfalls overall will keep me from going all the way to complete the game, though, I can feel it dragging at me already. And seriously, this was a $20 title at best. It would only be a $50 title of this was the year 2000, because that it clearly where it hails from, controls, graphics and all.

Thank goodness I got this game for 80% off on a sale. It is in no way a $50 AAA title. Graphics are a throwback to a good 10 years ago. Game momentarily freezes every time it does a save and then jerks around your last input request as it catches up. Crashed or locked up a couple times already. The game's overall pacing is much quicker than I recall, too, being less like a "castle sim" and more like a standard RTS that happens to have slightly more advanced than usual wall construction. Control inputs and notifications are out-of-date (no queing of orders? no notice when enemies are knocking down my buildings?) A.I. is a nice challenge. Very well done in that regard. It's the only reason I'm tempted to recommend this game. The technical problems and downfalls overall will keep me from going all the way to complete the game, though, I can feel it dragging at me already. And seriously, this was a $20 title at best. It would only be a $50 title of this was the year 2000, because that it clearly where it hails from, controls, graphics and all.