![]() My daily responsibilities generally include overseeing code and asset creation, making the tough design decisions on gameplay, story, environment and characters and answering a lot of emails!įor those who aren’t familiar with the Stronghold games can you give us an overview of the series? What are the defining characteristics of the franchise? Hello Gaming Nexus readers! My name is Simon Bradbury, I am CEO and co-founder of Firefly Studios, as well as Lead Designer on Stronghold 3. However, if you’re looking for a challenging strategy game and don’t mind an experience that favors careful planning over all-out warfare, this is just the game for you.The Stronghold franchise has been around for almost a decade and with a new game coming out at the end of September we pinged the folks at Firefly about what we could expect from the upcoming iteration in the franchise.Ĭould you introduce yourself to our readers and talk about your role on the project? What do your daily responsibilities on the game include? The same could be said for the campaign structure – which feels more like a sequence of battle scenarios and less like an epic storyline that takes place during the Crusades. While the game is in 3D now, its looks won’t blow you away if you’re used to the likes of Company of Heroes 2. If we’re to fault the game for anything, it’s perhaps that it relies too heavily on its excellent gameplay mechanics. Another major change comes in the shape of special abilities for more units – something which was fairly rare in the original game but adds even more depth to an already strategically rich game. This is done by implementing grids in a 3D world, which creates a 2.5D feel that will feel familiar to fans of the original. Most strikingly, they are now using a 3D engine even though they are keeping the original look of the game intact. There will be moments of frustration, but also moments of great satisfaction, when you finally outsmart your adversary and realize you’ll be bringing him to his knees – even before he realizes it.Ī lot of these elements can also be found in the original game, but Firefly Studios has updated their game in several ways. You’ll also find yourself drifting off into defeat, second-guessing your earlier decisions and trying new tactics upon loading that savegame you were holding on to. Stronghold: Crusader II is far from being a casual game, and the average battle might take you more than an hour to complete – or even several hours, during which the momentum will often shift from one army to the other. However, you’ll also be on the other side of the battle and creating and maintaining your defenses is just as important as taking down those built by others. ![]() If you prefer a quicker and more daring tactic, you can use the same catapult to try and take down those same walls before storming the fort. Having a lot of heavy siege weapons might mean you’ll eventually tear down the walls of the enemy’s keep, but you might still lose the battle if you are lacking in ground troops.Īnother tactic could be to spread disease and starve out the enemy, a process that usually starts by using your catapults to launch dead cows over the castle walls. Resource management becomes crucial, and balancing your troops can be the key to success. After the tutorial, the story takes a back seat and grand skirmish battles take center stage. It’s this group of gamers that will profit hugely from Crusader II’s tutorial missions, in which all the basic gameplay fundamentals are explained in a way that also draws you into the game’s campaign modes by providing a backdrop story. This is part of the charm of the game, but also somewhat daunting to those who are Stronghold novices. The depth of the gameplay also means that slight changes in your economy can sway the tide of battle in your favor down the road – or against it. It was an excellent formula for the original games and Firefly Studios has kept that entirely intact. Those familiar with the original games in the series will also know that a careful balance between your economy, your warfare tactics and the way you govern your people is the key to success. Read on to find out why we liked Firefly Studios’ reboot of their signature franchise.įor those not familiar with the Stronghold games, it’s still no surprise that this game takes place during the Crusades. Stronghold: Crusader II stays true to the original 2002 game without feeling dated, and brings back a brand of strategy games we don’t see that often these days.
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Looking past the cave-monster drivers (which you pretty much have to do in order to protect your retinas), the game sports some low-end Playstation One-era 3D visuals. At the very least, the original art designer needs to look for a new field of work, such as the custodial arts. They make a decent case for regulating art and turning the world into a dystopian police state, if only to protect gamers from having to see such horrid things. The character designs of the two playable cavemen are so atrociously, heinously bad. The fault here lies mostly with the original developer, as the game has always been an affront to the eyes. Cro-Mag Rally is hands-down the most hideous 3D game in the mobile Xbox Live lineup. I can frequently enjoy games with simplistic graphics or awkward art styles, but even I have limits. ![]() You don’t reload in this game, so you never worry about that, and if you run out of ammo you get out your trusty shovel to smack people with. 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Trains from Napoli to Roma, Roma to Campiglia Marittima, Campiglia to Piombino Marittima, a ferry from Piombino to Portoferraio, and a bus from Portoferraio to Lacona were all it took to get me to my second WWOOF farm. It was pretty wacky to have such a hilarious small-world moment while traveling! Kaelee and I found ourselves out late enough to see the sun rising, a jolting reminder that my train would be leaving within the next hour but, most importantly, providing us a quintessential travel story that I had imagined unfolding since childhood.Īs with most great adventures and memories, lack of sleep was a small side effect of my Napoli romp, making quite a haze of my nine hour journey to Elba. At one point late in the evening, a young boy stopped me on the street and told me he recognized me from a few weeks prior when I had been playing some beach soccer in Salerno. 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