Lords of the Realm 2: siege pack by sierra is expansion of lords 2 which was probably one of the first strategy games I think I ever played. That was back when I only had a 3 GB hard drive. Now we are in the age of 200 GB hard drives along with 3D graphics and loads of other games out there which are much better visually but still the originals always seem better. Lords 2 is as I said before a strategy game but also has some simulation mixed in as well.
You are the lord of a country and are trying to conquer the other countries around you until you become the Lord of all the lands. Its a fairly straight forward game and has a good mixture of simulation and strategy that fans of both genres should find appealing. For the simulation part you have to feed your peasants mine iron and wood and for the strategy part you have to use the iron and wood to create weapons to arm you armies to beat your opponent.
The AI in this game is okay they are just really repetitive each of your AI opponents do slightly different things like the baron loves his cows and countess loves her siege engines and the knight
loves his knights so with each AI you need a slightly different strategy to defeat them. The problem is that once you figure out there strategy they hardly deviate from it so it’s a lot of repetition in the combat its only really challenging when you have 3 of them attacking you at once. There is also no options to change there intelligence level.
In Lords of the Realm II: Siege pack you get 10 new castles, new battle maps and an editor to customize them or make your own, new terrain types and weapons, and new country map with over 20 new realms to conquer.
Lords 2 is probably one of the best strategy games I have ever played and the expansion just makes it better. Which would have been a better sequel then Lords 3 was which was just a mistake for sierra to release and was a sad sequel. The graphics for the time are very well done the storyline while being simple is a very good storyline. Lords 2 has many hours of game play plus loads of replay value especially after beating the first level as it’s never the same game twice.
