Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword – PC Review by Brash Games

The Mount & Blade games have crafted themselves a nice tiny niche. The grand scope of TeleWords to combine Total War's global strategic conquering with the vast openness of a free-roaming Role Playing Game hasn't always been successful, but has developed a series unique enough for it to rise above it's shortcomings. Previous outings favoured the Medieval landscape of Calradia, a 'made-up' land consisting of several nations each fighting one another for territory. Subsequently, wars were fought face to face, with swords and pole-arms taking the brunt of an attack while arrows rained down from a distance. Battles were up close and personal.