• Strategic fun like you’ve never seen before!
• Command Aztecs, Vikings and Chinese in 30 missions!
• Endlessly challenging singleplayer skirmish battles!
• Earn Steam achievements!
• Vibrant HD graphics!

• Windows XP/Vista/7
• DirectX 9c
• 1 GHz
• 256 MB RAM

Game Play :
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Swords and Soldiers HD is a fascinating strategy title, suitable for both casual and veteran players alike.

The day we were informed that the Vikings didn't really wear helmets with huge horns sticking out of either side was the day our fascination with the Norse warriors diminished a little - suddenly these avid and ruthless explorers didn't seem so intriguing anymore. Fortunately, Swords and Soldiers HD has restored our faith in these Norsemen, and given us a good laugh to boot.

Swords and Soldiers HD is a simple side-scrolling cross between a real-time strategy and a tower defense game, allowing players of all skill levels to build up armies and conquer the enemy. The gameplay can be a little too straightforward at times, especially for RTS veterans, but in general there are enough great ideas and humour packed in to keep you playing for hours on end.

With three campaigns available from the start - the Vikings, the Aztecs and the Chinese - the game recommends you start with the aforementioned aggressive Norsemen, although the story paints a very different picture. The Vikings are celebrating a recent victory with a great feast, when the pirate Blackbeard steals their barbecue and takes off.

Gameplay-wise, leading your troops to victory is kept very simple, with a single click spawning a soldier into battle. Once a minion has been purchased, they will usually walk in a straight line from your castle until they meet an enemy soldier, at which point they'll turn their attention to hacking the baddie down. Once the opponent's unit is dead, your soldier will continue to walk towards enemy lines.

Apart from balancing your money and soldiers, there are also magic godly powers to play around with. While Swords and Soldiers HD is great fun, it can feel a little too simple at times, and rather reliant on being able to click really fast. Once you have lots of gold rushing in from your mines and a few different units to choose from, winning a level then usually becomes a case of spawning units over and over again as quickly as possible, and completely overcoming the enemy with sheer numbers rather than tactics.

There are three main campaigns to play through, each with its own characters, armies and levels, and a skirmish mode for setting up your own customized games. You also have a variety of challenges to complete, which reminded us strongly of the challenge mode in Plants vs Zombies - you're asked to play the game in different and unusual ways to normal, for example, leading a single Viking soldier as far as you can before he dies.
You've also got a lovely online multiplayer mode to get involved with. This plays out like a normal campaign level, except that the enemy is in fact another player. The multiplayer mode houses the most epic back-and-forth battles you'll see in Swords and Soldiers HD, as both players rain terror down on each other.

File Size 50MB




Patch 2

Update Patch 2 ( Portable Version ) :
- Fixed an issue that would magically appear and disappear where the launcher couldn't start because of some error with "connect_lobby"
- Fixed an issue where some people couldn't play online because the game thought they were cheating while they were not
- Fixed an issue where you would have to click a lot of times to skip a dialogue if VSynch is turned off
- Fixed an issue where the German keyboard showed one empty button
- Keyboard support in the profile screen
- Added extra logging info to gather more info on some other issues that we have not found a solution for yet

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