Stronghold Crusader Review

 Stronghold Crusader... The legendary strategy game to me. Old, yet still quite fun and challenging. In this thread, I will review the mighty real time strategy game, Stronghold Crusader.

 The game is made in 2001 by Firefly Studios. It can be said that the game is the eastern, *crusader-ish version of Stronghold. The game is a quite simple strategy game. You start in a map with your allies - enemies, build your castle, gather resources, interact with your ally lords - generals, fight and win against your opponents (You must kill the lord of the enemy to do so). The most important reason that I really like the game is, I love to defend. I love to make strong, big castles and build traps around it, defend it with my archers. If you like to defend like me, you should give the game a try.

 If you get tired of the skirmish mode, try campaign. To talk about the campaign, there are 50 linked crusade missions that you need to complete to finish it. You can use 3 chickens (The chicken thing is about bypassing a mission that you don't want to complete or you couldn't complete), after that it still leaves you 47 missions to complete. As you proceed, the enemies get more crowded - stronger and you get less - weaker allies fighting with you. Quite a challenging and addictive campaign to be honest.

 About the resource collection, there are iron, stone mines, trees, grass fields (To build farms on) and clay pits. Build mines, farms, ox transportes to transport your stones, windmills, bakeries breweries, weaponsmith workhouses and a lot more to gather and produce. You will need food to keep people happy and make them join your army, wood to build buildings, make bows - weapons and stuff, iron to make weapons - armors, stone to build your castle walls - towers - gates, beer to make your people happy.

 There are two types of soldiers. First type is crusaders. They require low gold to hire but you must provide their armors and weapons. Second type is mercenaries. These arabic warriors will fight for you and you do not need to provide their needs. The problem is, they require much more gold than the crusader type soldiers. If you are in a rush and need couple of archers before start your attack, just go get 'em from the mercenaries. If not, I'd prefer the crusader army which will cost much less gold and will be cheaper both in gold and resource long term.

 Stronghold Crusader, the game that true strategy game players must try...

Amnesia: The Dark Descent Review

 Have you ever left your computer and ran to the living room because the game is too scary? In this review, i will introduce you to the scariest game i've ever played, Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

 The game is a survival-horror game developed by the Penumbra Series' developer Frictional Games. The game is about an amnesia man named Daniel. Daniel wakes up in Brennenburg Castle, as he finds the notes that he wrote to future himself and vitnesses events, he rememberes about his reason being in the castle and his purpose. Here is a video of first 10 minutes of the gameplay.

 The main reason that the game is the scariest game ever is, you can't fight back against the monsters. Yes you heard it right. You are literally desperate. All you can do is to run and hide. In these desperate situations when you are being chased by the monster, you can't think healthy, you literally go crazy, in the end just leave your computer and go back to a safe place where your family is or just run from that room and hide in the blanket. Here is a chasing scene from the game. This pal is brave though. I usually close the game and dont play again in 2 days.

 I guess you have some idea about what i say ''Desperation''. When you go deeper in the story, you will think like Daniel, move like Daniel, be Daniel. As you read his notes to himself, you will discover the reason of being there and your goal. At the same time you will want to finish the game and won't be able to play more than 30 minutes in a row (Happened this way for me).

 About the physhic motor of Amnesia, the game is very simply developed according to it's coevals but very succesfull. It is possible to interact to almost every single objects in the game, such as books, shelves, chests, stones... Anything. The lightening and vision is very succesfull too. The ligtening helps the game to make you feel very uncomfortable. The vision when you stay in the light is clear. You can see the lightened places clearly but you can't see the dark places. When you stay in the dark for a while, you will get used to it and slightly see the dark spots of the place. But beware not to stay in the dark for too long! You will lose your sanity and in the end you will pass out for 15-20 seconds and when you fall, you will attract the nearby monsters attention.

 Dark corners, creepy sounds, creaking doors, perfect atmosphere for a survival horror game in all ways. Your mind is challenging you. If you think you are brave enough to overcome every horor movies and games, i dare you to try Amnesia: The Dark Descent!