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ORIGINAL: Jim_H
I could never quite work out whether it was a good game providing you'd never played LotR II or whether it was just a mediocre game in its own right. Gog have III for $5.99, so I might just buy it for that price and judge for myself [:)]

Well, i belong to the very small, even tiny, group of Lords II players who do enjoy Lords of the realm III. As i knew about the game only shortly before it's release, i didn't build up much expectations and played the game with a fairly open mind. Now with this in mind and considering that the game isn't the newest anymore, some points:

- AI is good and you'll have a hard time to win some scenarios
- It's an RTS and you cannot pause the strategy map when you fight a battle so you'll have to chose which battles you want to fight.
- Don't expect anything close to Lords II...there's absolutely nothing similar.
- There are 4 campaigns based on history: Lords of the Realm III
- Most maps can be played between 1 hour and 1 hour and a 1/2
- It's not a great game but it's fairly good if you take it for what it is.

Cheers

ORIGINAL: Anguille
Well, i belong to the very small, even tiny, group of Lords II players who do enjoy Lords of the realm III. As i knew about the game only shortly before it's release, i didn't build up much expectations and played the game with a fairly open mind. Now with this in mind and considering that the game isn't the newest anymore, some points:

Thank you for the info Anguille. I'm not bothered about the age of the game if it plays well. The screenshots look reasonably good. Does it have a skirmish mode or random maps in addition to the campaigns?

ORIGINAL: Jim_H

ORIGINAL: Anguille
Well, i belong to the very small, even tiny, group of Lords II players who do enjoy Lords of the realm III. As i knew about the game only shortly before it's release, i didn't build up much expectations and played the game with a fairly open mind. Now with this in mind and considering that the game isn't the newest anymore, some points:

Thank you for the info Anguille. I'm not bothered about the age of the game if it plays well. The screenshots look reasonably good. Does it have a skirmish mode or random maps in addition to the campaigns?

You don't have a skirmish mode per se, but you can choose any nation on every map (the largest maps being England-Ireland or France if i recall correctly). So the starting position is very open. You also have a large number of battles you can play but there aren't that great (though i played them all at least once) because the AI will tend to rush.

An interesting aspect in the concept is the link between inviduals (if you choose the rights persons in your realm, you may get Robin Hood for instance) but frankly, i never had enough time during my campaigns to find out these Eastereggs.

Cheers

ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

When I wanna "go medieval", I fire up Medieval:Total War (with the excellent XL Mod). I played a game earlier today, and my Volga Bulgars, an Islamic faction, got stomped by the infidel Kievan Rus within 30 years. My first-ever complete destruction, and the first time I saw the ending video, with my capital in flames. Next time I'll take a wholesome Catholic faction, like the Holy Roman Empire. [:'(]

Same here as MTW with the XL mod is my favorite. Sadly I can't get it to run on my Vista 64 system with 9800GT graphics card. Any suggestions for fixes "that actually work" would be appreciated. [&o]

ORIGINAL: killroyishere

Sadly I can't get it to run on my Vista 64 system with 9800GT graphics card. Any suggestions for fixes "that actually work" would be appreciated. [&o]

Running it in "Windows XP sp2 compatibility" mode doesn't work?

ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm

ORIGINAL: killroyishere

Sadly I can't get it to run on my Vista 64 system with 9800GT graphics card. Any suggestions for fixes "that actually work" would be appreciated. [&o]

Running it in "Windows XP sp2 compatibility" mode doesn't work?

No as it's more of a video card issue when I get to the battle screen I get these mouse tracks that color the screen in mouse pointer swirls as I move it around.