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Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades PC
  • Publisher: 1C
  • Release Date: Nov 18, 2011
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  • Summary: Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades is the next installment in this series of realistic real-time strategy games covering various periods in the development of the present day civilization from the Middle Ages to today. This new title helps players witness the key events in the history of the Teutonic Order in 13th century, namely conquering the pagan Prussia. All battles form a single storyline campaign. The player will act as a Komtur of the Teutonic Order as they relive the battles of the crusaders, regardless of the low manpower of the Order and the strong resistance of the heathens. The project perfectly comprises two types of gameplay and owing to that the objectives of the Komtur are not simply limited to participation in battles. The strategic map involves the gamer into a colorful and integral world and allows them to travel around the map in the real time. The mode features full freedom of movement, dialogues with locals, RPG elements, quest system and much more. However, sooner or later, the players will have no other choice other than engage their faithful warriors into a battle. And this could be a combat with other armies, large-scale sieges of towns and castles, using various special assault weaponry and tools and fight right on top the walls and fortifications.… Expand

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  1. PC Gamer UK
    Feb 26, 2012
    71
    An engaging and enjoyable take on medieval strategy. [Feb 2012, p.107]
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  2. Strategy Informer
    Dec 23, 2011
    60
    We're off the opinion that the worst that can happen to a game is it being uninspiring – Northern Crusades isn't a bad game, but neither is it a particularly good game. It simply is and it's hard to give a passionate answer either way as to whether it's worth your time.
  3. Absolute Games
    Dec 23, 2011
    50
    Real Warfare 2 relies heavily on gameplay gimmicks, eschewing some crucial features that should have been a no-brainer to implement.

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  1. mitra76
    9
    A great game with realtime strategic campaign; real tactical battles very realistics. Is like to live in a real world like for the M&B campaign, but this time you manage a army, fighting pagans, mongols and russians.… Expand
    • 2 of 4 users said yes
  2. magicscion
    5
    Good game with some nice visuals. The upgrade system and battle mechanics play rather well but the graphics are at best comparable to Medieval Total War 2. The main problem with this game is the large number of glitches and the fact that everything but the battles is UTTERLY BORING. This "game" is just battle, sell garbage, refit army, read poor dialog/nonsensical uninteresting story bits, new battle, crash, reload, sell garbage.... Since your not in control of the mission assignments and since battling outside the proscribed boundaries yields horrible cost/benefit ratios, i.e. you just took down a whole castle but hey this merchant caravan IS PACKING EVEN MORE guards and and elite units, one quickly grows very bored. Top it off with consistent "game engine error" crashes after every 2-3 battles which require you to reload and REPLAY the same battle this game is about 10 years past its expiration date because man does it STINK!… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. BadAtDuesEx
    1
    This game is easily the worst thirty dollars i spent (i think. pre-ordered on steam and got RW 1242. haven't played much of it). MW3 is worse, but i got that for christmas, luckily (no 60$ from me). Anyways, The things that killed me about it are, in a nutshell, Buggy, lvling does... what?, combat, economy, and THOSE FREAKIN ROBBERS!!! and a few other irksome things. going sequentially in order of mention, the bugs: when i first launch it from my desktop, the load pic comes up and... what? has it crashed? there are no moving parts on it at all. not exactly reassuring. its also takes a while to boot, so im left at my desk wondering if it crashed or not. when it does bott, im in the game, so on and so forth, i get into a fight, and the loading screens show up. No, it's not a tendency to crash, or obscenly long loading times that i hate. No, its that the screen fails to update the still images(as in, the game doesn't update the loading screen at all. Deosn't make sense, does it? example: loading screen pops up. rather than show you the progress of the load, its frozen, and the only way is to show progress is pressing the windows key. alot.), so i have to press the windows key at least 4 time every fight. not fun. the next thing: the lvling with no point (practically). so you're playing the game, you finish a fight AGAINST ALL ODDS(more on that later) and you lvl up. so a screen pops up and you see a bunch of stuff to spend a skill point or two in. how ever, none of them have any real use. taxmaster: increases taxes marginally. Warlord-or-something-similiar: decreases price of recruiting marginally. Pray before battle: increases morale ... marginally. see a pattern? Combat: hate hate hate hate HAAAATE! getting soldiers to move: after you tell them to do it, it takes five seconds to start diong it and the formation commands (wedge,line,etc.) rarely work. I have also rarely encountered a battle where i am grossly outmatched. another note: the game has a somewhat skewed perception of enemy strength relative to yours. lot's of units at half-strength when there are at least 2-3 time more units are apparently more dangerous than full strength units with a unit count equal to yours. Economy: ignorable, until you need to repair a unit after battle, which is all the time, thanks too those freakin robbers. it take alot to repair your special cavalry at the beggining of the game. and since i never got past the missionn where you had to take an enemy castle by sneaking in and opening the gate, i never got to expeirence the wrath off powerful unit repairs. And those ROBBERS keep stealing all the cash you really need. and kill a few units sometimes to. next to last theing: morale. before we get into it, lets talk about online multiplayer shooters. your team is winning by alot. the other team has basically nothing at all. then they win. its usually because all of the good players on your team leave, other team gets good players, etc. In RW2NC, there is morale. if you are winning, but one of your units is getting beaten like there is no tommorrow, they will run away. then that sets off a chain reaction that causes you to lose. last thing: FREAKIN ROBBERS!!! i never got to a point of the game were i could beat them. never. They steal all my gold, kill units occasianaly if i dont give them my gold, if i try to fight them, they were always overpowered, and they are everywhere. EVERYEWHERE. THE END… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes

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