YouвЂ™ll start with just a small plot of land, then open up more of the map as you accomplish three of those XвЂ™s: exploring your lands, expanding your territory, and exploiting the resources you mine, farm and acquire. Of course, your main goal - be it a full-blown campaign or a simple skirmish - is to conquer an entire map in your kingdomвЂ™s name. Now that CastleStorm IIвЂ™s eXploring, eXpanding, eXploiting, and eXterminating (the four XвЂ™s of 4X strategy, if you didnвЂ™t know) have been fully, uh, eXecuted, I think itвЂ™s fair to say that CastleStorm II is a kingdom-building - wellвЂ¦ kingdom- crashing! - strategy game above all else. And yeah - we really wanted to play that! We know literally no one else out there would think to make this game but us. But here at Zen, we like to say we make what we want to play. But would it be too much? Kingdom-building strategies are huge enough as it is without a whole вЂnother gameвЂ™s worth of combat included. Being huge fans of franchises like Civilization and Heroes of Might and Magic, we knew 4X strategy was a good way to accomplish that. We love what we accomplished and we remain very proud of it, but we felt we could improve things by adding more depth. We got a lot of great feedback about this formula - ultimately, our biggest critic was ourselves. Backed entirely by a charming - wellвЂ¦ charming ly violent - medieval setting that takes itself about as seriously as Monty Python and the Holy Grail does. The strategy of who to send outвЂ¦ the precision of ballista shotsвЂ¦ the hack-n-slash combat going on in the middle of everything. Troops - not always necessarily human - enter the fray to bloody things up even more. Defended by ballistae, they hurl javelins, chunks of rockвЂ¦ even sheep at each other. Picture this: Two castles on a battlefield.

ItвЂ™s been a long time, so letвЂ™s take a step back to remember what made the first CastleStorm so popular to begin with - thereвЂ™s really nothing else quite like it out there. The new game includes all the crazy cartoon carnage you loved from the original (even more!вЂ¦ вЂcause thatвЂ™s what sequels do!), adding to the mix a full-fledged 4X kingdom-building metagame that turns our unique super-genre-mashup into a super-DUPER-genre-mashup.Д«ut how did we come upon that decision? And what does it really mean for gameplay? And today, weвЂ™re proud to finally bring CastleStorm II to your PS4. Seven years ago, we at Zen Studios introduced CastleStorm - our most popular non-pinball video game, wellвЂ¦ ever.

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