Stronghold 2
Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you joust over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay. Will you entertain…
Stronghold 2 is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Firefly Studios, released 18 April 2005 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Stronghold 2 is
Stronghold 2 is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Firefly Studios and released in 2005. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Dragonfly.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Stronghold 2 is a 2005 real-time strategy video game developed by Firefly Studios and originally published by 2K for Windows. The third installment of the Stronghold series and the sequel to Stronghold, the player again develops a stronghold in the Middle Ages.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, historical, sandbox and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 33 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Stronghold 2 holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 63 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.6 GHz Intel or AMD Processor, 512 MB RAM and 256 MB Video Card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Stronghold 2 launched on 18 April 2005, within three weeks of Psychonauts, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, SWAT 4 and Guild Wars. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, SWAT 4, Guild Wars.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Stronghold 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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