GamingUnion.net: "Those who have never experienced the Mount and Blade series before may be taken aback by quite a few aspects of the game. The graphics aren't quite top notch, and the general framework of the game can feel a little strange for those who aren't quite familiar with a similar series like Might and Magic. Similarly it's latest expansion With Fire and Sword can be equally hard to simply pick up if one is not accustomed to an older style of game design. But despite all these issues, Mount and Blade remains to be an extremely engrossing series, one which has an amazing amount of depth to offer players."
Dash Bomber writes, "Blast the face off your enemies with a musket that’s about as accurate as a blind man firing from 200m! This is what With Fire & Sword brought to the table when Mount & Blade got its current expansion out. Mount & Blade are a series of games about a random man, controlled by the player, trying to conquer the world. He can do this by aligning himself with one of the current super powers available or he can say “screw that” and create his own kingdom. If you have ever wanted to be the random guy that conquered the world, then this is the game for you!"
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M. Arda, who has been moderating TaleWorlds forums and helping out Oyun Fest for a long while, found out an important secret by the new “Badge” system that has been integrated to Steam. The thing has been found revealed a new “Badge” in the profiles of TaleWorlds’ developers. The important part about this “Badge” is simple, it is only and only given to the people who are registered to the Steam Workshop.
Hope they make it a little more intuitive and presentable than the others. Their great games and all but a good budget would really kick them into gear.
I wish they would of given the game a graphical update, that'd be the best.
It's unlikely that I'll enjoy a game like this. Despite the glowing praise for the gameplay mechanics.
Warband was much, much better. They have managed to do what big developers do and add new features that just break the game instead of build uppon their awesome original idea properly.
They need to revamp the menu system and add more intricate and unique content.
As for graphics, look at how much it is rendering... The graphics are very good considering that, zoom in to the ground on total war and it looks worse than mountain blade. Though the architecture is in dire need of improvements, likewise with faces while talking to characters. What they have done with the graphics is basically: "well.... we have proved that we are able to make them great, but we will leave everything bad because there are only 6 of us". The actual rendering system seems very good, but the assets themselves lack quality.
Oh yeah, the AI is completely broken in this too.
Haven't tried the single player, but I find the multiplayer in both this and Warband to be tons of fun. I'll find a siege server with 75+ on each team and jam on it for hours and hours..