It also has eight AI characters which you can find in the Custom Skirmish mode. Unlike its predecessor where the conflicts takes place in England, the main focus of Stronghold Crusader HD is the conflicts in the Middle East. All of these game editions are fun to play even though there are differences between them, but gamers who always thirst for challenges might like the extreme edition better because it has a higher level of difficulty. As an HD release, its graphics quality is better than the original version, which was popular enough that the game developer decided to release an expanded version of it under the title of Stronghold: Crusader Extreme in 2008.īefore the extreme edition, there was another one called Stronghold Warchest which contains additional characters, but it was distributed only in certain countries. Stronghold Crusader HD was released a long time ago back in 2002 for real-time strategy game fans.