The King's Crusade - PC
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Platform:PC In the 12th and 13th centuries, the expansion of Christianity sought to extend its outreach. Asia had shifted from Zoroastrianism to Islam. As the area where Jesus roamed, it became the target for repeated conquest. The Muslims were broken into several groups most of which were called Saracens. Soon after the death of Muhammad these groups began raiding and conquering Arabia and then Africa, and later into Europe. Spain was under Saracen rule in the 11th century. The Saracens controlled most of the Muslim land, but still remained ununited until the Turks, another Muslim group attacked the Byzantine Empire and started the Crusades. The Europeans wanted to destroy these infidels and attacked the Holy land that was controlled by the Saracens, and won the prize after the first war. The Crusaders felt pretty full of themselves and left several major kingdom-colonies controlled by each of the European powers. The Muslims didn't like this and began some minor raids on each, which only infuriated the Europeans enough to have another Crusade. The next Crusade had less success, since this time more Europeans died and less Saracen-Muslims, and some small fiefs one the boarders were destroyed. But, it was enough for the Crusaders. Richard the Lionhearted asked for peace and a treaty was signed by Saladin. The treaty was short-lived, Richard the Lionhearted ordered the citizens of Acre to be killed. But after more fighting the Crusaders left never to return. The Saracen kingdom in Spain was taken by the northern Christians led by El Cid, and the Saracen Empire slowly dissolved back to the deserts from whence it came, over the next few centuries. In Lionheart King's Crusade, you undertake a strategic rematch between Richard's forces and the Saracens. Can you change history? The time has come for you to assemble your armies and take back the land as Richard the Lionheart, or to
J**H
Not as Bad as Everyone Says
I enjoyed this game. This game will appeal to history buffs and strategy game fans. In many ways this is a sequel to Crusaders Thy Kingdom Come . In Lionheart: The King's Crusade (LTKC), you control King Richard (Lionheart) of England and his army as they conquer the Holy Land during the Third Crusade. You can also control Saladin and retake the Holy Land from the Crusaders.The best way to describe it is a clone of battles from Medieval II Total War without empire management. There is no expanding an empire and running cities and an economy. In battle, you can find armor, weapons, potions, and elixirs to improve the effectiveness of your units. Units gain experience from combat which improves the units abilities and give you access to special abilities every three levels. In between battles, you can add new troops, replenish weakened units, improve their equipment, increase skills, upgrade them to more advanced troops, and other such things. Your hero can also obtain relics which provide benefits or you sell them for money or donate them to the church for increased faith. Basically lots of units with lots of specialization.When launching a battle, you get to select your battle plan and can also pay for several bonuses (extra engineering points for siege equipment, lower morale of enemies, sabotaging an enemy siege engine, etc). The battle plan you select increases your reputation with the crusader factions. This provides you with benefits like access to new units or heroes, reduced upgrade or recruitment costs, etc.Campaigns have more replayability than normal as each mission objectives are affected by the faction plan that you follow. There are side missions that are optional. In general, all the decisions, specialization, and options can make a campaign play differently.You can also play as the Saracens. The Saracens campaign is more difficult. It also operates differently. There are no Crusader factions, instead you can get upgrade points which gives you access to special feats, additional units and other bonuses. There is also no ability to borrow funds, which makes it difficult to overcome a poor battle performance.There are some changes from Crusaders Thy Kingdom Come (CTKC). You get to select the mission you want to play instead of going through a linear storyline. However, LTKC does not follow real historical events. When playing as the crusaders you conquer all the way to Bagdad, while in reality King Richard didn't even assault Jerusalem. In battles in LTKC, you now have an option to withdraw from combat (though you take a hit to morale) and units can be driven to flee or even panic (leave the map) due to low morale.The game is rather buggy. Playing more than one battle in a row frequently lead to crashing the game conveniently right after you complete the battle before you can save the results. I was able to get through the entire Crusader campaign except the last battle for Baghdad. No matter what I did it would still crash after the battle. I did not experience any crashes in the Saracen campaign though I have not completed it yet.I played both on Windows 7 (Intel i 7, 12 GB RAM, 2GB Nvidia Video Card) and Vista (Intel Core 2 Quad, 8GB RAM, 1GB Nvidia Video Card) with the same results in regard to bugs. My Windows XP machine is not connected to internet so I couldn't try it on that machine.This game requires Steam to activate and play which means you need a reliable internet connection. The initial setup is rather painful with long download required to update to the current version. Also since this is a Steam game you don't have the flexibility to use workarounds to fix the bugs. Steam does offer downloadable content (for a price) which includes more units and special artifacts. I didn't get these.
C**N
avoid
Didn't work. Crashes to the point of playability. Others have had problem.
D**N
hey jack
this game is terrible I wouldn't recommend for anyone to even think about buying it. graphics, gameplay, action, just about everything awfully sucks.
G**G
Utter Crap
This is a most useless game and an absolute waste of time. The company that makes it will hopefully go out of business for their crappy products as well as poor customer service. They make products with invalid CD-Keys and tell you to F-Off when you bring it to their attention. I should probably go to Chinatown and buy a pirated version as it would probably work better than than the official product. Nonetheless, I shall avoid ANY games made by PARADOX. Unless you just like giving money to shovelware manufacturers, I wouldn't waste my time. I'd rather buy an email subscription from a spammer.
B**T
Lionheart
Game takes hours to install "Steam" and after all that, it doesn't work on my XP or Win 7 systems.
C**N
Muy mal
Ya van como 5 veces y siguen borrando mi opinión, para empezar el embalaje, el juego viene muy muy mal, la caja es de carton y me llego en pésimas condiciones (no subiré fotos por que igual y me borran esta opinión de nuevo), el juego es una key de steam, el cual tiene malisimas notas en dicha plataforma, viene en ingles, NO comprar
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