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I am very pleased to have this highly addictive, turn-based medieval strategy game again. The game's addictiveness comes from being able to truly control an entire government with the ultimate goal of ruling all the lands by destroying your computer-controlled or online enemies. It was a difficult game to find in working condition and I was able to buy it for a very good price. The game comes with a CD-rom and an autoinstaller program, but being DOS-based and late 90's, I was unable to install it on my Windows Vista computer without a program called DOSbox. I downloaded and installed DOSbox and it runs just fine, although it will skip just slightly when the in-game voice-overs occur. Just make sure to read the wikipedia entry on DOSbox and the instructions and it ends up being pretty simple to install. For the game, basically you chose your name and banner then start off in a region on a map along with the enemy players whom you can strike alliances with, send gifts, compliments, or insults. You then moderate the region's food, industry, trade, castle construction, army mobilization, taxes, land reclaming, etc., trying to bolster your forces, population and revenue. You produce wood and iron to make different weapons and stone to build or repair your castles. Choosing from a list of maces, swords, pikes, mail, crossbows and longbow, you can then decide when to make an army and what weapons to equip. You use your armies to garrison your castle (which you build) or to destroy enemy lands, armies, and castles. Best of all, you can either allow the game to compute the winner OR choose to go into battle yourself and decide which troops to send to demolish your opponent! Achieving this is not as complicated as it seems and the game provides great in-game written instructions and tips as well as audibly telling you. The sound effects are pretty good for a program of that timeframe and while the music does loop, it does coincide with that era's style. Additionally, the game has many voice-overs when commanding your troops or interacting with the enemy, giving the game a more realistic feel of the fighting that's occuring. After defeating all your enemies you become king of that land and are sent to another land for your next throne. With unique maps and more enemies and problems to overcome, you can enjoy many, many hours of gametime. There is also the option of online play, although I have not tried it myself. The only dislikes to this game for me were the diffulty to install on windows vista, the ever-looping background music, and the occasional bug or frameskip (most likely due to the install using DOSbox). So, if you enjoy making armies to conquer lands, building castles and controlling the land, money, and population, or like ordering your troops into battle to lay siege on an enemy castle, I highly recommend finding a copy of this game. Death to the Knight!!!Read full review
This game holds a special place in my heart and remains on my hard drive to this day. Like many people I was anxiously waiting for Lords of the Realm 3 to come out because of this game but of course like alot of games never lives up to the original great game. This game is a good mixture of castle management (but not too much thankfully), castle sieging, alliance making and breaking and territory domination for the crown. It does all these things by a turn-based system for the world/territory map and real-time battles for sieges. Your ultimate goal of course to take over all the enemy castles. This brings me to one of the major problems I had with this game. Sieging an enemy with a large castle with a moat and all the fancies and a billion archers (you really didn't need anything else for the castles) was nearly impossible after awhile. You would have to hope to get lucky and attack the castle when the units were out fighting or be stuck. Also the game shows it age by now graphics wise but of course graphics aren't all what make a game fun. It is also very time consuming, if you've played any Civilization games or Heroes of Might and Magic (Oh how I love those games too!) you will have an idea of length. Those potential gripes aside, it is a very fun game with its hillarious voices and sounds! "Welcome, to Lords of The Realm Two! Please select your shield!"Read full review
One of the best games I've ever played. Theres just something about the gameplay that makes this game very addicting and rewarding to play. It came out around 1994, so the graphics are awful, theres no music during regular gameplay and the voice acting is laughably bad, but these faults don't ruin the game, it has a sort of endearing effect. Its a turn based game where you manage your empire, make sure your serfs are working to make enough food, weapons and resources, and you draft them to make armies to conquer other lands. a great game, i reccomend you buy it for any price, but especially since this game doesnt seem to sell for anything over 5 dollars.
This has got to be one of the best strategy games ever created. Requires both resource management and battle tactics, which can occur in a wide variety of environments ranging from Castles to places that remind one of high brush walled European Gardens (like the one Harry Potter was trapped in.) There are also dozens of different locales for the game, ranging from a Rubix Cube to the World, and including, but not limited to The US, England, Germany, India, China, Africa, The Crusades, etc. Seven different types of warriors can be manipulated, each of which has strengths and weaknesses.
LDR2 is one of the GREATEST strategy games of all time. The graphics aren't as good as todays modern games but it doesn't need them. There are problems with trying to run LDR2 on Vista but you can get around them. It's worth the trouble; YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!!