The sight of hundreds of horses mashed into individual tiles, and creeping tides of twitching, meshed-together catapults, genuinely approached cosmic horror as an aesthetic. So difficult it was almost funny, in places.īut what makes me sort of love it, is that out of nowhere, the formerly fairly mid-scale battles of the original game could now include TEN THOUSAND units. What made it extreme? Well, it was gruesomely, near-unplayably hard, for a start. But it was a meaty old game in its own right, cranking up the RTS element of the Stronghold formula, moving the action to the Middle East, and cracking open a massive tin of campaign missions.Ĭrusader Extreme, by contrast, came out in 2008, and was somewhere between a remaster of Stronghold: Crusader, and a fever dream. Stronghold: Crusader v1.3 HD Patch (+21 Trainer) AzKat. This was the last downloadable patch for Stronghold Crusader before the HD upgrade. Location Games: Stronghold Crusader: Files. Battles such as Nicea, Heraclea, siege of Antioch, Krak des Chevaliers and the Siege of Jerusalem all feature, as do the Crusader Trails from the Stronghold Warchest and Stronghold. Add file Report Stronghold Crusader v1.1 Patch. Stronghold Crusader HD features several campaigns documenting the First, Second and Third Crusades, as well as conflicts within the individual Crusader states. Because it was made in the same engine, and because Stronghold 2, actually the third game in the series, came out in 2005, it’s easy to mistake Crusader for an expansion pack at first glance. 2 Demos, 1 Cheat, 2 Fixes, 8 Trainers available for Stronghold: Crusader, see below. This was the last downloadable patch for Stronghold Crusader before the HD upgrade. Stronghold: Crusader, of course, was the 2002 sequel to the original Stronghold. We have compiled a few key cheat codes to make playing the game a bit easier for you. But other than the fact that “Crusader Extreme” sounds uncomfortably like some kind of fash energy drink, I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for it. Stronghold Crusader is a real-time strategy, or RTS, PC game that transports you to ancient Arabian lands full of castles and warriors.

It truly is the Sonic The Hedgehog of RTS/city builder hybrids, eh? For a lot of people, Stronghold: Crusader Extreme was the nadir of the franchise. Over the two decades and nine-ish games of the series, Stronghold has been on a right old rollercoaster, quality-wise. What with Stronghold: Warlords coming out the other week, I’ve been revisiting a few of the Stronghold games in my collection, and… crikey. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.

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