i grew up playing crusader and I've tried most all the stronghold games, people complain about graphics but that's not what any of
the games were made for so i don't understand why yall feel the need to complain about it the new dynamic added with diplomacy and the control of ai brings much more needed life and substance to the game and the addition of gunpowder makes for a different playstyle i realy enjoy the campaign has a good story based off of real history and fun levels, the only critism i have with the game is that there are very few lords and they are all relatively similar with the same sort of castle nd play styles but there is a new update on the way to add another and if they keep up the updates and maybe do some changes to the current lords I think you'll love this game too.