Where the 8-year-old Lords of the Realm II was a rudimentary city-building sim where you had to put smiles on the faces of your peasants, the follow-up is a straightforward RTS that's spread across a strategic map interface and a combat screen. This is a very different game, which is a fact that shouldn't surprise anyone since its predecessor was released in 1996. Those looking for a straightforward sequel to Lords of the Realm II, however, will be disappointed. Medieval kingdom management is streamlined and easy to pick up, yet at the same time, the scale of play is epic enough that you can conquer whole nations and besiege numerous castles simultaneously. All of the typical elements from the developer's creaky city-building series have been dumped in favor of a real-time strategy approach that goes heavy on tactics and light on resource-gathering. Lords of the Realm III makes some pretty major changes to the formula. You have to fight at three or four places simultaneously, and you must make hard choices about which battles to manually control and which to turn over to the computer. Lords of the Realm III is one of the freshest, most satisfying games produced by Impressions in years, and it's a great real-time strategy game in its own right.Įverything is in real time here. So you'd be forgiven for assuming the game to be something of a disaster.
Given the usual state of most budget-priced PC games these days, this usually isn't a good sign.
Then, just a month before the game was finally due to hit stores in March, the publisher announced that it would ship at a $19.99 budget price. Last fall, Sierra abruptly yanked the game from the November shipping schedule and postponed its release date until spring. The road to release for Impressions Games' latest, Lords of the Realm III, has been a bumpy one.
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