The landing point is very well chosen. Immediately after arriving you get an impressive view on the castle, its many towers rising up high above you. The position on a hill top and the half-timbered house remind of some typical German castles in the atomic world.
The gate at the end of the bridge opens with a loud rattling of chains and you'll enter a cosy court. From there many squeaking doors invite you to explore the castle. The doors are not the only sounds in the building: when you climb to the higher parts of the fortress, you can hear the wind howl around the crenels.
The rooms inside are scarcely furnitured; just enough to give an impression of their use. There's a King's Hall and an office. Next to the defence walls are rooms for the guards with a table to play the dice. The cellars are not hiding a BDSM dungeon - as too common in SL - but filled with stock.
The best thing of this castle however, is that you can go everywhere. The towers and buildings are not just massive prims, but real buildings that you can enter with doors and stairways. One easily gets lost in the many corridors. All the windows - also the observation-holes in the walls and towers - are real: not just textures on the wall, but actual holes that you can look through.
Besides that, most corridors and stairways are built with enough headspace to cam around easily. The camera seldom gets stuck. Nonetheless the fortress has realistic dimensions. Someone's done a very good job here.
SLURL: Knights Templar Fortress
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