Since the general awesomeness of Mount & Blade has been well established, this review shall focus on whether Warband is worth it for new players and existing players. Honestly, I never thought Mount & Blade: Warband was a bad looking game, especially for an independent title, but the added improvements here do let you take advantage of your fancy PC. Welcome to the future! The game also includes new motion-captured animations for more realistic killing and/or dismemberment. Mount & Blade: Warband includes all sorts of fancy new processing like HDR ( whatever that means), anti-aliasing, soft particles, and tone mapping. The game map remains largely untouched, though. The textures have gotten an overhaul, upping the detail from the individual soldiers to the landscapes you’ll be battling in. Mount & Blade: Warband features significant graphical enhancements for a standalone expansion.

Is it worth it for newcomers to the series?Īll these questions and more might be answered in the following review!.

Is it worth it for existing owners of Mount & Blade.

This raises a couple of important questions:

Well, it’s time for the publisher (and, to a lesser extent, the developer) to make some money through everyone’s favorite plague: the standalone expansion! Yes, you too can charge an exorbitant price for a couple of new features! What we do get here is sixty-four player online chaos and a revamped single player campaign. Skill-based things are always better than luck and die rolls in my opinion, and the unique aspects of the original game made it one of the very few RPGs I enjoy. What drew me towards Mount & Blade was its effective mounted combat, which made the game far more interesting than a traditional role-playing game. What say you? This standalone expansion to the excellent mounted role-playing game is $10 too much, despite the occasionally pleasing multiplayer bedlam: 5/8

The Not So Good: $30?, multiplayer is typically unorganized chaos, no cooperative modes, slower weapon times are frustrating, minor single player enhancements The Good: Chaotic 64-player multiplayer with seven game modes, shiny new graphics, can become king and marry sexy ladies Mount & Blade: Warband, developed by Taleworlds and published by Paradox Interactive.

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