BEST RTS 4 THE GBA!!!!!!!!!!!
933852
This game iz awesum! It is SO much fun! I've spent MANY hours playing this game! It does get pretty hard. Its kinda like chess. And like in chess, wenever u lose 1 of your people in battle, they're GONE! (well, 4 some u can see L8R and ask 2 come bak, but lets not get there;)And to let ya know, Marth and ROY (from Super Smash Bros. Melee 4 the gamecube)are NOT in this game! I think that they are descendants of Eliwood(Roy look-alike) and Hector(Marth look-alike only w/ a cool 2 sided axe!) this game requires you, like in chess, to make sure that your troops won't die in battle by making a careless mistake. Trust me, if u like ANY RPG on the GBA you will be hooked on this game 4 dayz!
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The Sega Saturn was and still is the BEST 2D, console ever. Thanks to Sega President Bernard Stoler. Who said no RPG's and 2D games for the Saturn. Well Bernie, you just killed the Saturn. All of the great 2D and RPG's are import games. And since the system had two graphic chips only a few developer company's knew how to handle this system like Capcom, SNK, Acclaim, Sega and a few more. My opinion Capcom was the best developer for this system. Check out Xmen vs Street Fighter and Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter those two required a 4mb ram cart. Trust me it's worth getting. I've this system only for 2D fighters, shooters and beatem' ups. I love Sega Saturn this was my first CD ROM system and it bring back my child hood memories. You made a great decision reading my review and buy this Great system and Action Replay 4 in 1 cart and purchase import games only!!! SEGA RULES, my Friend...Have a great Day.
4316114
I'f Your Looking For A Great Sega Dreamcast Game This it It I Love this game and I think you should buy it NOW!!!!
4543160
OMG!!!! Im in LOVE with this game!!!!! its sooooo much fun!!! The graphics could be better......its still sooooooo much fun!!! BUY IT!! ASAP1!!! (((coming from a 14 yr old))
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If you're a Seiken Densetsu fan like me (I'm the biggest on this planet!) then you'll love this game!!!!!! (though most people are disapointed with it and don't appreciate it)  It may seem a bit more childish than the other Seiken Densetsu's at first, but its a great game that has a "pretty" good non-linear storyline.  This is the first Seiken Densetsu to have a world map, it features a new system where you place the lands in the world as you get them, you can place them wherever you want but its more than what looks pretty, it takes strategy and planning (ex. you want to keep water based lands close to each other so they can share their water essence and make the water in eachother stronger).  Also depending on when you place a land in the monsters will be stronger or drop better items.  The characters are all so lovable (most of them... besides Escad, Daena, and Lark!) each with their own storylines to follow, there are three main storylines.  Legend of Mana also introduces a really cool and advanced blacksmithing system that almost literally gives you no limits to what you can create!  The magic system is a different from the other games, but it gives you a bunch of different styles.  You make instruments to have magic.  You can also Raise Pets or Make Golems for a 3rd NPC!  Square even added in a feature so that you can paint your golem...  this requires produce which you grow with a scary treeman in your backyard.  Legend of Mana has the old weapon style again so that you can use more than one different kind of weapon, only they went over board and made over 20 different Special Techniques for each type of weapon!  There are normal skills too like jump, roll ect.  When you beat the game you can do something similar to Chrono Trigger's New Game+ feature, when you do this you have to option to go into a harder mode of the game.  The graphics are very well done watercolor style, which is a really cool looking graphic style.  The music is great too!
Connectix VGS and Bleem! both support this game too, so if you don't have a PSX but you have an emulator you can still play it.
Overall I'd definetly give this game 5 stars!  Its not the best in the series, but it definetly one of them and it deserves a spot in every Console Role Player's shelf.
Well that pretty much covers it!
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this game promises everything you might expect from a game boy game on steroids! never gets old shoting stuff awsome level design,cool consept,tight controls, and FUN! drivable veichles are cool this game is a master piece and if you like action games this is for you. IN OTHER WORDS IF YOU DONT BUY THIS GAME I WILL LOSE ALL RESPECT FOR YOU AND PUNCH YOU. BUY THIS GAME NOW!
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The Stronghold series is, in a word incredible, but there are a few negetives. I'm a HUGE fan of RTS (real time stratagey) games like this. It all started when I got Age of Mythology at a elementary school a few years ago (I am only 13)then I got Age of Empires Gold Edtion (Age of Empires, Age of Empires The Rome Expansion, Age of Empires II the Age of Kings & Age of Empires II the Conquers Expasion)and then I got this. This game trumps ALL OTHER GAMES I HAVE!! (don't get me wrong I still love the Age of Empires series.) Ok so enough about Age of Empires, lets talk about Stronghold. I am going to give you some info about each gam in the series ( except Stronghold III since I don't have it yet.)

Stronghold
This is the first game in te series, as you might have noticed. This is the game that started it all. There are 2 campaings to chose from, Military or Economic. I perfer the Military campaign for 2 reasons, 1. Its the main campaign, 2. I am better at military stuff like that. The story is that you are in England (naturally) and there are 4 lords that are in control, (you will find out these guys real names in the campaign) the Rat, the Snake, the Pig, and the Wolf.  And you must wipe them all out & at the same time keep a strong hold (no pun intended) on your counties.
Troops
This is a guide to all the troops you will be useing in the games.
Archer: standard long-range troops, pretty good versus spearmen, other archers, some siege engines, monks, and ok against macemen. Don't use archers against pikemen, swordsmen, and espicially knights. Do not, I repeat DO NOT use archers against knights unles you have A TON of them. I would recomend putting them on towers with braziers to light pitch diches and fore fameing arrows at seige engines. But if you are storming a castle I wuld suggest getting a large force of archers and useing them to kill the defenders on the walls or useing the them to kill civilians during a raid.
Spearmen: Pretty useless, but you can use them to fill a moat or find traps if you want, but I wouldn't suggest useing them to storm the enefy's castle if you have other units availible. What  usually do is produce spears and sell them for profit.
Crossbomen: Better than archers and still serve the same prupose with more armor and attack but less speed and range good for killig armored units like knights.
Macemen: A BIG improvement over the spearman, combines a good amount of armor and attack with great speed to match but a big weakness to missle attacks. Still not as strong as the swordsman though.
Pikeman: EXTREMELY tough to kill slower but stronger than the maceman.
Swordsman: AWSOME to say the least. They are slower than the maceman but a LOT tougher to kill and devestateing in combat.
Knight: A mounted swordsman.
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I thought that this game was soo good because they now have made the races more equal in power.  The zerg have 2 new characters, 1 which is called a lurker and gets in the ground and attacks, I love that guy.  The Protoss  have 1 new warrior and the terran have 2 new units.  I would definately buy  this game if you are starting to get sick of the same old levels and  characters from the original Starcraft.  I would recomend this game to  anyone that likes to play strategy war science fiction games like Command  and Conquer, Age of Empires, and Warcraft.  This is a defiante buy though  if you have the original Starcraft.  Thanks
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Really amazing game at a great price(cannot believe it's so cheap)!!!
I'm so excited after playing for 3 hours and addicted!!
Besides, this game run smoothly on Win7(choose compatability to Win98/2000)!!
Still,Best strategy game I'll recommend!!
1227494
The best Game Boy game I've yet played!  After many tries I've been able to win (barely) two of the 'battles', but they keep getting harder!
2080672
3 years ago I saw this game advertised and I thought it would be the coolest game ever! It may be a little hard for some people but you could just get the stadagey guide. I've got all the action figures and I just can't wait fot the second one to come out I also have chain of memorys but I did not complete it yet. Anyways you must get this game it is the best game ever!!!!
594540
Old school keyboard and mouse player here.  Can honestly say this is the best functioning RTS on a console.
4145372
Wow!!! this game is really cool, the story is the best of all and the game play is excellent compared to the other 2 POP`s, the other 2 seem to have been created to be played with a control pad, in this one with the keyboard and mouse you`ll be all set.
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First off, if I can address the review about the game lacking single player modes... The guy doesn't even have the game.
Not only does the single player mode have the mode he discussed...but it has two other modes as well. There are campaigns (which can also be created by the user) and there in fact is a mode where you can play as many computer opponents as you want. It's called quick play mode. It's **RIGHT ON THE OPENING SCREEN**
In any event, I must tell you that this is absolutely without a doubt the BEST RTS game that's ever been developed. Big Huge Games did an incredibly good job with this game.
This game isn't for the mindless C&C, Starcraft, and Warcraft players. This game is for intelligent players who can handle managing multiple cities and armies at once with the economy as well.
If you want to mass a bunch of tanks and rush your opponent and have a large cluster of nonsense in the middle of the map, buy C&C or Starcraft. If you want to gather a bunch of stone and tower rush your opponent into oblivion and build 3 barracks outside their base.
You can't do that in RoN. You can only build within your city limits...and you add more cities and expand like a true real-world scenario.
BHG added *JUST* enough upgrades, resources, and ages to make this game the best RTS ever. As an avid RTS player, it also makes this the best game I've ever played.
Please also don't listen to the complains about system issues. Very many new games are going to have them and the patch is out now. All is well...and you're insane if you don't have this game.
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This game is an excellent choice for kids of many ages. There is an array of weapons for you, and your enemies.  The Nazi Germans you fight in the the game use vehicles including Panzer 4s, motorbikes with MG42 sidecars, half tracks with three MG42s, one in front and one in each side (these men cannot be shot), and in one level they even use a JU87 that cannot be shot down. If you do purchase the game, there are many codes for it. I noticed few defects, while playing the game on a desert level I fell off what seemed like a castle wall and got stuck on top of a German Panzer 4. It was cool until I died.  Over all, I rate this an awesome game with some very strange final levels (when you get there you'll agree). A must have for video game enthusiasts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am a James Bond nut, so i totally would recomend any form of James Bond to any1 who loves action. i think the graphics are O.K. for the GBA but the weapons and people look good from the screens i have seen from review sites. i don't know when it comes out but I will buy it!
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Greeting people. Home World 1 is one of the best RTS (real time strategy) games that I have ever played. It is absolutely awesome and I think that everyone should have it. I will most definately rank this game 5 out of 5 *****. This game is worth its money. I am looking to purchase it again because I have played it for so long that my original CD I bought when the game came out 5 years ago is so scratched up. I am even using a burned copy of my original right now and even my burned copy is getting scratched up.

  I at the moment in Home World1 am in the Lost Souls clan. My name is ViciousLS. I design and develope strategies for the game. I have designed over 5 strategies within the past year. One is SSS known as Sphere's Scout Strategy. The other is VGS, the VicaGaran Strategy. I have gotten more than my money's worth of this game and I can assure you that everyone who plays it right now has as well.

  The people of Home World range from ages 10 all the way to 60. They all get along. There are also many clans. One clan consists of just people 35 years of age and older. They are known as the OMO (Old Men Online) They however, play many many games besides HW1. HW1 far out ranks HW2. Many of us HW1 people do not like HW2 because of its lack of strategic planning and the skills needed to rush the enemy and over come what he or she might have in store for us. Some of us HW1 players get on TeamSpeak, a voice chat. We play the game and stay on the voice chat to coordinate and plan attacks in the game. I myself have voice chatted with many of the people from HW1 and many from other countries. These countries include: USA, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, UK, Holland, Bosnia, Belguim, France, and Russia. As you can see, it is indeed a wide variety of countries and it is very fun to chat with people of different cultures and to experience how they play on HW1. I a 16 and have chatted on voice chat and played in HW1 with many many people throughout my career. In time we grow and learn to respect eachother in the game. There are some wiseasses and morons in the game yes.. But most of us still have respect for others. New players are allways welcomed by most and I hope that if you get this game, to PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! Learn the basics of the game... Play the single player missions... Read the manual, it provides a good knowoledge of the game.

 I hope to see you soon playing HW1!

 <Salute> ViciousLS (ViciousHomeWorld)