
The GBA edition even records progress to the cartridge after every turn, which is an absolute godsend since a campaign can last more than an hour or two. But because of the GBA's powerful gaming hardware, the jousting, mace combat, and storming-the-castle mini-games are much better tuned on the handheld. The GBA version uses most of the same art and sound assets used in the original title, tweaked ever so slightly. This Game Boy Advance version is exactly the same game that appeared on the Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS, and the other umpteen systems back in the day. During a turn, you can even raid the castle of a neighboring faction in order to snag a large sum of gold, or to rescue a maiden in distress. Between turns, players will be asked to participate in a jousting tournament between the factions, and they can fight for either fame which will increase your leadership skills, or land which can easily cause an upset in the balance of the factions in Britain. In a sense, it really is a more micro-managed version of Risk. By taking over all the territories, you will become the new King of England. By capturing territories, players will earn more gold per turn, which can be converted into the army necessary to conquer territories controlled by one of the four opposing factions. It's all about learning to manage resources, as in each of the player's turn they'll have to choose to either spend their hard-earned gold on soldiers, knights, and catapult, or move a mobile campaign into a neighboring territory in order to capture and take control of it. In the game, players assume the role of a leader of one of five different factions set out to conquer England.one territory at a time. It's not going to give anyone in a Western Civilization course a hard lesson in history, since all of these events are loosely based on happenings during the medieval times. Defender of the Crown takes place in the dark ages, during a time when the King of England is slain and all the territories are fighting to conquer the land.to become the new ruler of England.
