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Summary: I'm an optimist
Review: Since Lords 2 Royal Collection with Siege Pack is one of my all time favorite computer games I have always had high hopes for Lords 3. I placed my advance order in April 2003. On March 7, 2004 I was delighted to discover that it is finally going to come out March 16 for only $20.00. However, when I checked the Sierra website to see what they had to say I discovered that the stated minimum system requirements are Pentium III with 800 MHZ and they recommend a Pentium IV with 1.5 GHZ. Since this exceeds the capabilities of my computer system and I have no plans to update soon I am forced to regretably cancel my order. I gave it 4 stars anyway out of gratitude for Lords 2 and because I want it to be a successful game. I'm an optimist.
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Summary: The Gameplay
Review: First and foremost, the completely new gameplay of this compared to Lords of the Realm II is something to marvel at. Not having stone, wood and iron and instead only caring about crowns, troops, food and christianity is a pretty radical change of gameplay. Once you conquer a territory, you must place a vassal (four options) on the land in that territory. This will determine whether the territory is used to recruit troops (this comes with a castle of varying size), harvest food to support troops, pay crowns to the treasury (this comes with a town hall of sorts in the county), or gain you favor in the eye of the church (eventually allowing you to start "crusades" on your fellow christian nations). This means that land is the most important resource. If you don't have enough land: for food, your troops starve; for taxing, you go bankrupt; for troops, enemies invade; for christianity, you lose favor with the church and eventually they will coerce your fellow nations into attacking you. The other important aspect of this game includes chivalry, honor, and christianity. These are aspects of you, the noble, in the game. If you are chivalrous (you ransom off captured soldiers and nobles as opposed to executing them), the type of soldiers you get will be the courageous type, not the scoundrels you get otherwise. If you are honorable, mercenaries are cheaper for you to hire- keep in mind that you need to have a tax collecting vassal in one of your counties so that you have a towncenter from which to hire mercenaries. If you are christian, you gain favor from the Pope. There are more ways to become a christian noble than just designating certain counties for churches (some random events). Lastly, the price- this is probably cheaper than expected because the creators wanted to pay us back for constantly delaying the release and because there are many other games coming out at about the same time. Hope this review was helpful.
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Summary: For cost I am sure it will be great
Review: But this is actually about compatability problems for part II with XP that another user alluded to. Use the Microsoft compatability wizard under start->programs->accessories. It will help you change default resolution for the individual game (which causes most comp in my experience). I can get Lords 2 to work on XP home with this tool.
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Summary: IM HOPING FOR THE BEST!
Review: I own every single "Lords" game I, II, and siege pack. I also own Pharaoh which is also an excellent game. I play Lords of the Realm II Siege Pack every week and the sequal has to be much better (I have been waiting half of my life for it :p). If this game is anything close to what I expect it to be it will be a huge hit in all stores and never be on shelves for more than a day. Also Lords of the Realm II Siege Pack (expansion for Lords II) Is THE best game for computer I have ever played, second total....... nothing beats Vice City (Grand Theft Auto),
well.............I hope this article helps someone find a good gift for their child or themselves. If you buy this game, believe me there will be no regrets, well back to playin Pharaoh(4th fav. game). P.S. If you ever see a game that says sierra on the box, its worth it.
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Summary: Regrets
Review: I'm a little disappointed about the fact that Sierra announced the release of LOR III in 2002. The latest review states Spring 2004. I hope the game will be released before summer holidays. If I was to work like that as an independent engineer, I would have been bancrupt by now.
Please release this game, I'm disappointed in the other games that were announced as the successors to LOR II (and I can't get LOR II startet on my new PC with XP Pro!)
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Summary: Disappointed but hopeful
Review: I have read several of the reviews on this sight and must agree that it is disappointing when a game is delayed. I enjoyed Lords II but found it lacking in both depth and replayability. I was delighted to here that Lords III had much more depth of play and a more refined story line. It is unfortunate that the game was delayed. I have been waiting for the sequel for years now so, no one is more disappointed than I am. But, we must realize that very sofisticated and detailed games sometimes have setbacks. We can only hope that this setback will produce a better product...with excellent playability and free of bugs. However, I remain sceptical. The studio had better put out an exceptional product...BUG FREE...to justify such a delay. I gave the game Three stars only because I cannot rate a game based on a one minute trailer.
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Summary: Just a thought
Review: I am really looking forward to this game (Huge fan of the Lord of the Realms II) and I think that with these changes it might even improve a great bit on the first two. But lets not make our judgments on the game when it hasn't come out yet. I was reading other reviews where people had already decided not to buy the game just because it had been delayed(admittedly a very long time) but its a game folks, if it had been released earlier we all would have been very disapointed. Atleast this way although I had to wait for the game, I can feel pretty confidant that Impressions is just trying to make sure they release a good game.
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Summary: I've had it with them
Review: That's right, I am sick and tired of getting a little excited about the game release and now it was pushed back until 2004!! While I am a hugh LOR2 fan (...). (...) have let me down for the final time.
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Summary: i love LOR and LORII !!!!
Review: man the only thing that sucks about this game is the time it took those guys to release the game!!!! this game is a kind of like the Total war series, except, this game is much more deep in the management part of the game...in other words, this isn't a game where you just build an army then pummel the other guy n2 pulp.....superb graphics from what ive seen, and a great buy because of its replayability! as i said before, the only thing that is bad, is the wait i had to endure for the game to be released!
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Summary: Hope springs....
Review: Like others who have written, I'm a big fan of Lords2 and eagerly await the sequel. But I am NOT pleased to see it as RTS. Not only that, but I was a big fan of Master of Orion 2 and eagerly awaited a much delayed sequel. What a dissapointment!!!! So I will reserve judgement and read reviews here and elsewhere before I rush out and buy. I hope for much but am prepared for a big letdown.
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