Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come

[h1][i]“To Jerusalem, we pray It's time to meet you there~ 🎶”[/i] ~Alphaville[/h1] In June 2000, something cool happened – Creative Assembly released Shōgun: Total War. Why was it so important? Well, because Creative Assembly finally made it absolutely clear – one genre is just not enough anymore. Nowadays, games that combine different elements from various genres are rather common. Action games, for example, often include stealth parts, while real-time strategies incorporate a lot of the RPG elements. We take it for granted today, but even despite the fact that there were tons of the experiments before, the mainstream gaming was pretty strict. This here is, say, Sid Meier's Civilization with its grand strategy map, while this here is BUNGiE's Myth. Which is strictly tactics. Now, Shōgun? It combined both. The grand strategy screen allowed us to recruit units, manage the economy and taxes, deploy ninjas, trade, etc. And when the diplomacy failed (it a-a-always does), there was a time for tactical battles. People loved that, and up to this day, the Total War franchise is doing really well. What's funny, though, is that Creative Assembly wasn't the first to make such a game. Say wh…

Worst crusader game ever. Archers refuse to fire when commanded to do so. Melee combat is slow and no way to flank enemies, they just stare at the enemies. Hard to pick a faction, no indication on what their strength or weaknesses are.

The pace in battles is painfully slow, and gamespeed can only be increased to 2x. I feel like they did this on purpose to draw out the game. Had amazing potential especially for the time, sad result.

Terrible game, units walk extremely slow, not even fast forward makes a difference. Game crashed 2 times in the first hour of playing and i didnt have a chance to save so all progress lost.

Cant be played anymore because of drivers issues.

I love these games by Neocore. The camera is a bit wonky.