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Mount & Blade: Warband (2010)

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What is Mount & Blade: Warband?

Welcome, adventurer, to Mount & Blade: Warband, a game that sees the player, a recent arrival to Calradia, going off on quests, raising an army, fighting in numerous wars between the kingdoms of the land, and fighting bandits.

Creating your character through a series of questions, they determine how wealthy or poor, famous or unknown your character is, as well as their starting stats, their starting equipment, and the like. After that, you then manually invest a few points here and there into your character's stats yourself. You choose your character's dashing good looks and then you choose your starting kingdom, and then you're off on an adventure!

As Calradia is a land in constant warfare, that means that bandits are becoming bolder and attacking merchants and other travelers frequently, as the kings and other lords of the realm are too busy fighting in wars to pay them any attention, and as you'll discover in Calradia that combat and warfare are inevitable, you're going to want to learn how to defend yourself. Combat in Mount & Blade: Warband sees the player and his army charging at the enemy's army and clashing head on. You can use swords, greatswords, axes, clubs, maces, hammers, two-handed axes, staves, spears, bows, crossbows, throwing weapons and even your fists, if you should so desire, although fist-fighting isn't really recommended in Mount & Blade, for rather obvious reasons. Eventually, though, all the combats that happen during a playthrough devolve into just massive maelstroms. Depending on what weapon you use to defeat an opponent, you can knock them out instead of just killing them outright.

Graphics-wise, Mount & Blade: Warband is not a very pretty game. The graphics are barely PS2 level, heck, I'd go father and say they'd look just about right on a PS1 console game, but whatever. I don't really care too much about graphics.

The music in Mount & Blade: Warband, I find, is very fitting, you have music for each of the kingdoms that plays when you're out and about in the field, you have different music for combat depending on whether you win or lose, the list goes on.

There is no story in this game. Backstory for each of the characters you'll recruit, yes, but no main story.

There is a TON of replay value in this game. Or at least I like to think that there is. As I said earlier, the choices you pick during character creation determine how your character starts off, in terms of stats and equipment, but that's about it. Eventually, you wind up joining one of the six kingdoms in game or founding your own in your attempt to reunite Calradia like you do in Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors games or rather in Luo Guangzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Mount & Blade: Warband is a good game, but one that does tend to wear out it's welcome after some time has been invested into it. However, Mount & Blade: Warband is a very moddable game, and I actually plan on covering two more mods on this game at least before I move onto to another one, however they will all be very heavily modded themselves.

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