Played STK for 1 year with 2 IRL friends. Moderators cheat in game. Don't waste your time and money.
595285
My friends and I played Stronghold Kingdoms for about a year. We just won the glory round and reside in a top 5 faction on our world. A moderator banned my two friends 2 nights ago for no reason and no explanation given. They banned them as we were getting ready to push hard on another world against our enemies. Not 5 minutes after the bans our enemies started excommunicating the banned players. There is no way that our enemies would know what we were doing without a moderator interfering. Because of those bans we lost at least a month's worth of work and wasted god knows how much real money. The company is stonewalling us and we are being forced to deal with the same moderator that we think is cheating which just closes our tickets and insults our intelligence.

Don't waste your money here. You cannot win when the company employee's are cheating.
3870540
This is an arcade type game.  The  player  'drives' the tank from a viewpoint that is behind the tank.  You constantly get a view of the back end of the tank.  In the game if you run thru a bush or over foliage, it pops up between your view and the tank, obscuring  your view.  It gets you killed quick.  The graphics are fine.  The game makers have egregious advertising constantly dinging you to buy premiuim service.  You can not do much in the game without spending 'gold'.  Unfortunately, you must spend your money to obtain this 'gold'.  This money-grubbing aspect knows no boundaries.  Upgrading the initial tank costs gold which must be purchased from the game makers site.  I have discovered the game will not function on my Xbox 360 without being signed in to Xbox Live.  So, if you don't keep a current subscription it is unusable.  The game is oriented towards playing on line.  If you have a connection less than 25Mbps  it is too slow.  There are two U.S. servers you must keyhole thru to play the game online.  It seems that at least bi-yearly upgrades are necessary and with a connection that I have (1.5Mbps) you will be running the Xbox all night to obtain the upgrade.  This game is worth less than a dollar.  The game makers have a limited few scenarios, that can be played against the computer.  This changes from time to time as upgrades are downloaded.  Currently there are five.  This is not any kind of simulation that I wanted to purchase and play.  I will return this for refund.
2209850
Yep another one star gaming company. No start up info. You are expected to know everything from day one. Can't look up info through Google because everything you find is out dated and no longer applies. Petitions are not answered. The community ignores new players questions. I get stress working in a hospital. Don't need it when I get home and login to a game to play. Based on the reception in AO there is 0% chance I will try any of their other games either.
3502646
Like many others, I bought into the hype when this game was released and bought it at full price. Easily the worst gaming-related purchase I have made. Endless micro-management of your worshipers, clunky and awkward controls, and boring missions and objectives. Stay far away from this waste of money and time.
1438628
This game was a hame is working properly, actually playing it is a slog. The horrible fleet management system and severely imbalanced tech costs for improving your ships means that any game is going to stretch out an incredibly long time before you can even get near getting into action. Offensive gameplay is virtually impossible due to a long slow slog of  needing to deploy station after station to supply your fleets-- which must be tediously rebased to each new station as you work your way towards your enemy.

Worse, any discussion of problems with the game are hampered on the official forums by the lead designer, Mecron, and a bevy of toadies and hangers-on. Mecron screams and rages about any criticism, real or imagined, to 'his' game, and will cheerfully lock and delete threads about legitimate technical issues. He flips out even when 'his' game gets bad reviews.

So, in summary: avoid like the plague. Slow, slogging gameplay, combined with a head dev that has an ego rivaling that of Derek Smart = not much fun at all. Stick to Sword of the Stars 1. Or even go down to your thirft store and buy an old space board game-- it will play faster and be more fun than this.
2707333
This game gets progressively worse the higher up you going to tears. I know several people that have wasted a lot of money on this game. Don't be that next person. The programming takes control of the game and keeps you from doing certain things. Sometimes when you shoot a tank you will penetrate three times in a row and then on the fourth kill shot it will bounce and then that tank will kill you or your teammate. Other times you will position yourself to wear your vulnerable spots are blocked by a wall or mountain and somehow the enemy tank can shoot through the mountain. If you play in tear 10 matches you just about have to have an auto loading gun. If you do decide to play it absolutely stay away from the artillery tanks. The program has total control of your ability to hit or miss a tank. It's very frustrating. Then you will run into those people that do not have a clue how to play the game. That makes it even more frustrating. I could go on and on about the many things that are terrible about this game, but I'll save you the time.
618712
If I could give this product a "0 stars" rating or lower, I would.  My husband and I are avid gamers and have played multiple MMORPGs for the past 10 years.  We both played the beta, took a break, and then both bought copies of the product as a PC download.  Downloaded the product with no problems, played for one day with relatively few/no glitches and then when we went to log on a second day, both of our accounts were suspended and then banned permanently.  Our characters were low levels (below 10) and we had done NOTHING to violate the Terms of Service.  After multiple attempts at trying to un-ban our accounts the ESO-Customer Service representative refused to tell us what had happened to prompt the ban and refused to answer further questions.  So now I'm stuck with a game that I can't play.  I should have spent my money somewhere else.  I would never recommend this product to anyone based on the customer service I received and advise all to stay away or waste your money.
2854932
Choppy hosts, SMGs dominate every other gun class, hip firing is better than aiming with sights, no recovery time from jumping or climbing, sound effects sound like they're from an atari game.

Don't waste your money, I would refund if I could. However Steam will not allow it.

PS. There's hackers in multiplayer and Activision is trying to hide it by reporting youtube videos that show the hacks as copyright violations.
4457772
I can't handle how horrid this game is. Don't waste your time, and don't waste your money.
3581011
Got this from Game Stop and returned it's the next day because it just took us 3 to 4 hours to win or lose the game. It would not going past year 2100 before you would win or lose the game. We were never able to get to the space age. When I went to see if I was the only one I wasn't. There was tons of people saying this so it was not the disk like I first thought. Don't waste your money on this game!
3942563
I gave this book one star because, though it's a normal book full of tips and cheats, the game it's informing you of kinda sucks. I won't carry on about the game, but really... don't buy this book and don't buy the game. It's a WASTE of time!!!
1783735
If you guys played saints row 3 then this is the same game in all aspects,except for the fact that they give you superpowers. That is it. They completely gave up on the game. They didn't even try to change the clothing, tattoos,cars, car customization options, character customization options. NOTHING!!!!!!! its all the same. 95% of this game is the same as SAINTS ROW 3. I bought this game for the 360. It crashed countless of times. Playing co-op was the worst experience ever, in some missions the other player would die for no reason so he had to quit the game and I would have to finish the mission without him. Don't waste your money if you already played saints row 3 and you own crackdown you own this game. If you are lucky enough to have a ok computer just find the game online for free and save your money.
2319887
In video game years, 10 years is ancient.  That's what this game is.  I knew there would be some repackaging of Diablo 2 - but with 12 years between sequels, this is absolutely disgraceful.

Personally I hate cheaters and hackers, so I understand why online play is required even for "single player" mode but the problem with this single player / MMO blend is, you get the worst of both worlds.  The real money auction house means that loot drops will be horrific because people will be paying real money for drops and distributing them to the community at large. Unlike single player games where you can expect to get good loot specific to your character, the drop rates of this are going to be like an MMO without ANY of the benefits of an MMO, simultaneously eviscerating any of the benefits of a single player game.

I loved Diablo 2 and played it up until this release so it took me a while to reconcile how disappointed I was.  I wanted to love this game.  I wanted so badly to love this game but I utterly wasted my $60.

They didn't even make the game mechanics better.  You get a number of powers sure but you can only fight with one of each type.  And if you want to change those powers to adapt to the fight (not like the fights differ at all) you are hit with a cool down.  What?  Why?  Maybe the guys I just fought are slow and now a bunch of leapers come along and I need to slow them down before doing big damage - and you want to punish and discourage that kind of adaptation?  The game is one dimensional hack and slash as it is and you want to make it less versatile than its 12 year old predecessor? It makes no sense!

It's so very sad when games like Dungeon Siege 2 from 6 years ago surpasses Diablo 3 in graphics, game play, story, customization, absolutely everything - and DS2 wasn't a really good game.

I just don't understand what the heck took so long to make this game.  There are free to play games on Steam that are far superior to this and made by independent game companies with a tiny fraction of the budget.

There are far too many major production studios - nearly all of them - repackaging old games, spending the whole budget on advertising, and then sticking the community with a piss-poor product.  Modern Warfare 3 or as I call it, Modern Warfare One's third expansion pack comes to mind.  Send Blizzard a message and don't buy this game or better yet wait till this game's price free falls (and you won't have to wait long - just look at the 2 star rating on day 3 of the release) then try it out for a laugh.

You failed Blizzard and you failed us.
3776065
I have been playing Super Smash Brothers games for 10 years. I've played SSBB -- this game -- competitively in person. I never won any cash prizes, but I did play the best in my Southern California region in BIG tournament with over 100+ in each. The last one I went to I placed 17th out of 200+ entries. I go by ERS++ or Edward ERS, idk if this link will work, but you can see me in action a lot in this video. I've been a Wario beast since late summer 2008, but have retired because of my circumstances..... and Meta Knight. I now just play online with friends when requested to.

Wifi-Stadium - a Super Smash Brothers. Brawl Montage
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That was my credibility, now I will tell you how this guide is BAD.

Possibly it just comes off as common knowledge because I'm a veteran of the series, but the general tips they mention in this guide of how to play are really shallow. The main thing thing to mention is that for everything they tell you that is true or might help you, there are 2 things REALLY wrong. The character data in the back of the book is EXTREMELY dated and flawed. The book considers Marth to be the best character in the game over all, when in all credible tier lists since the summer 2008 have racked WITH OUT QUESTION Meta Knight and Snake as the 2 best characters in the game in that order. Sure the tier list is based off the best players in the world in 1 vs 1, no items  playing on overall neutral stages, but to call Marth the best is a joke. What's even stupider is that they rated Meta Knight a 6/10 -- Meta Knight is the most over powered, easy to pick up and play and otherwise broken character in SSB history--. There are really bad tips is how to play the characters too and some of the move data is incorrect. The guys behind rating and explaining the characters were idiots on short notice to rush this out.

The only reason to buy this is if you don't have internet access, because everything important in this book can be read on gamefaqs.com. What's important is unlocking the 35 total characters and all of the stages, which is like 40+. The guide to the subspace emissary-- single player story mode-- is better than online, but has no significance. Doing 100% of the subspace emissary is a waste of time.

Save your money and don't buy this dated trash. Go to gamefaqs.com cheats/hints section to unlock everything and smashboards.com forums to learn how to play better. There are active social networking sites devoted to this game like allisbrawl.com; join to hopefully meet some friends to play online and gain more knowledge of the game. You will not get better at smash from reading this unless you are INCREDIBLY new to the series, in which case you should do your reading online still.

The game is a must have and can be enjoyed on all sorts of levels, but this guide is stupid.
3450485
after 3 days i realized i wasted 38 dollars on a game that is beyond horrible. Just setting up an overview can take hours. The game age is really showing now with terrible development. Some one needs to go to CCP and show them what an interface looks like these days.
3387516
I played this game for 2 years and 3 months, which is basically a couple months after it launched. This game was so unique and diversive. I never remember a dull moment in the early times. They revamped the game in late April/early May and although it retained a lot of it's charm, some of the things I loved about the game were gone. But NOW, they have completely wiped this game of everything that made it unique. It's no longer fun. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, not only because it is no longer worth the $15 a month, but also because SOE does not care about their customers.

Do not waste your money. If you want fun, this is not the game you're looking for. Adventure? Excitement? This game contains not these things.
1883338
Don't waste your time or money here.. I've been counting the day to release, anticipating for the biggest Xbox one release all year AND get a broken online experience. The multi player game options are also bad, even if the game worked as they advertised there would be disappointment. I have requested a return label for a refund and will be purchasing COD.. Sad to say.