The Good:
-Game is functional and has little completely FUBARness like wolves climbing ladders.

The Bad:
-AI cheats up the wazoo, but is not actually more challenging
-The graphics. The game only barely looks better than Stronghold 2, a game released in 2004. The models are off proportion and rather amateurish, and the art ranges from passable to horrid.
-Random events negatively impact your popularity. Who honestly thought this was a good idea?
-No real innovation. The only new things here are the Templar Sergeant, the Slave Driver, the Arabian equivalent of the Crusader Knight, that stupid ass dude with the dreadlocks, the War Wolf (which is just a catapult with more HP) and the Hussite Clown Car. Weather is new, but it serves no purpose other than to hinder progress.
-No collision detection in an RTS. As a result, melee fights degenerate into blobs of stacked units flailing about.
-The UI. Why whoever designed the UI chose to ignore the perfectly sensible UI seen in the first two games and decide that the best solution would be spread all relevant information to the far corners of the screen is anyone's guess.
-The game is missing quite a few things from the first(Siege Towers, etc)

Conclusion:
This game is bad buy Stronghold Crusader HD

The Good: -Game is functional and has little completely FUBARness like wolves climbing ladders. The Bad: -AI cheats up the wazoo, but is not actually more challenging -The graphics. The game only barely looks better than Stronghold 2, a game released in 2004. The models are off proportion and rather amateurish, and the art ranges from passable to horrid. -Random events negatively impact your popularity. Who honestly thought this was a good idea? -No real innovation. The only new things here are the Templar Sergeant, the Slave Driver, the Arabian equivalent of the Crusader Knight, that stupid ass dude with the dreadlocks, the War Wolf (which is just a catapult with more HP) and the Hussite Clown Car. Weather is new, but it serves no purpose other than to hinder progress. -No collision detection in an RTS. As a result, melee fights degenerate into blobs of stacked units flailing about. -The UI. Why whoever designed the UI chose to ignore the perfectly sensible UI seen in the first two games and decide that the best solution would be spread all relevant information to the far corners of the screen is anyone's guess. -The game is missing quite a few things from the first(Siege Towers, etc) Conclusion: This game is bad buy Stronghold Crusader HD