“Sire, your brother is plotting to have you killed…” came as a shock to me, doubly so as he was my Marshal (the chap that deals with your military). It even manages to convey some pretty unsettling imagery with fairly simple text. It weaves plots, stories and basic human madness into a tapestry that even Mr George R.R. CK 2 manages something quite special, in that it plays like one big, brutal game of The Sims. The first Crusader Kings game passed me by without me even noticing, and let’s face it – most of these historically accurate games are boring as hell. Now, before you start snorting tea all over your keyboard, I do have an excuse – aside from a few games of Europa Universalis in the past, I have never played a strategy game quite like this. Eventually surrendering, I was then henceforth banned from making any monarch-income-boosting laws ever again. Thanks to the fact that I was the King of Scotland, and I didn’t have much experience with combat yet, I received a severe kicking. Then, as anyone with half an orange between their ears could have predicted, the few dukes that vehemently opposed my decision banded together and attempted to rip my head off. With a bit of cuddling, a few winks and a streak of shame a mile wide, I managed to gain my tax increase.
Yes, you have to actually ASK your sub-ordinates if it’s okay to ASK for more taxes. I learned this the hard way early on as I attempted to increase my gold income a tad by introducing a slightly higher tax… and to do that, I had to persuade my subjects to bequeath me with a little bit more power. A brutal feudal-mentality surrounds you, and even your own vassals will take no funny business. Treating CK 2 as a standard grand-strategy game is akin to sticking your head in a badger and yelling “LIGHT ITS TAIL!”. Six months in, my bloody brother has already tried to bump me off and my kids absolutely hate me. Crusader Kings 2 has pretty much dissuaded me of any notion that I could be a clever, witty, urbane monarch – with the intellectual prowess to not only secure my country, but to fend off any number of attempts to usurp and destroy my mighty lineage. Not that I can think of any off-hand, as I think I may be remembered as one of them.
CRUSADER KINGS 2 PLUS UBUNTU SERIES
This is not surprising, because not only the creators themselves, but also the most loyal fans of the series took part in the development of the project, which is why, with such close contact, a very good game turned out, which will certainly appeal to all fans of historical strategy games.History is replete with tales of idiots. The global scale of the strategy is impressive, as are the well-developed game mechanics. Battles take place in real-time mode, while right during the battle, there is a pause, during which you can decide on the tactics of the battle (step-by-step mode woven into the process). We are given a choice of one of the factions (peoples and dynasties), which we must lead to victory, by skirmishes in real time with the enemy troops. In the second part of Crusader Kings, we are transported to the times of Medieval Europe and the Middle East.
The core of the whole gameplay was the hardcore game mode, which was released thanks to the fans of the series. In general, the studio decided to continue creating RTS strategies with a focus on medieval times. Not only the best designers and game devs of the studio worked on the development, but also the fans of the series, whose opinions were listened to and recorded by the developers personally. Crusader kings 2 - strategy that has become a cult sequel to the first part.
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