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Mount and Blade (PC DVD) | 
| From: Paradox
Category: Video Games
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 2624
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1
EAN: 7350042840014
ASIN: B001BTPRLG
Release Date: September 19, 2008
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FANTASTIC!!!! November 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Brilliant! Fantastic! Love it! Graphics on full looks awesome! Armour shines well, weapons gleam. You end up blood stained (If like me you like to use the balanced morning star :) Tutonic nights armour and helmets to use! round thick steel sheilds (So you can pretend to be a spartan) lol Great love this to bits! been playing it for about three weeks non stop every chance i get! Choose archer, lancer, etc etc all stats available so no fixed class! Hero units that you can upgrade too! Castles to invade/Own/Defend etc! 3rd person view as well as 1st command your units to specific things in battle ie, blunt weapons, any weapon etc press back space. Some mods coming for 1.03 version some available now. Not finished the game yet, takes that long! Trade gods to collect money etc! Brill game!
My specs: Vista Ultimate 32 bit
Asus p5n32e sli board 1333fsb
2.4 6600 Stock
Inno 9800gt 1 gb memmory
600w psu
4gb OCZ Reaper 800mhz stock
Plays like flowing water at 60 frames a second! Brilliant waether changes etc Just down load the demo!
Different, challenging and extremely addictvie... November 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an impressive game from an independent developer. My initial impressions of a slightly rough-edged game rapidly gave way to a growing addiction.
Graphically the game is okay without being stunning. Characters look slightly clumsy and faces are pretty ugly. This probably accounts for the first impression. However, once you start on the combat you realise that this is not so important and the gameplay is a whole different ball game. On the plus side graphically the environments all look good, and combat is generally rendered quite well.
Fighting a single opponent one on one it rapidly becomes apparent that this is not just a click-fest combat so readily presented by most RPGs. When you decide to strike is important. The left-click attack, right-click parry or block combination works really well. Attack at the wrong moment and you may open yourself up to take a hit or your opponent may block. Get it right and your blow will hit home. There are no healing potions here and you don't automatically gain hit-points by leveling - so blocking and good armour become increasingly important.
The game has two main views. The rendered 3D world which is used to explore towns and castles and for combat, and an abstracted map which is used for travelling. The latter shows your party and other parties within your line of sight. It helps to improve your spotting ability so you can see and assess bandit parties before they spot you and make a decision as to whether to engage or avoid.
The game makes no concessions for the beginner. Travel alone at your peril. Bandit parties of varying size and quality roam freely and will not hesitate to attack, rob and carry you off. Horse archers are particularly frustrating to engage, if you don't have sufficient cavalry in your party. The fact that the world is so dangerous for the beginner helps create a feeling of realism - but it can be frustrating at times.
Quests may be picked up from NPCs and can be a good way of earning cash. You do need to be careful what you take on as the quests appear to take little account of your abilities and may send you across very dangerous terrain with goods to carry which slow you down and make it difficult to escape from pursuing villains.
To aid you on your way you can recruit heroes, mercenaries or peasants. The latter can be trained relatively rapidly to become useful assets on the battlefield. It is very satisfying to train up a party and then watch them grow in skills to successfully take on tougher foes in larger numbers. As your party grows in numbers and experience your wage bill will also grows - but so does the potential for profit. The game gives you the ability to issue commands to your troops during the fight (whole party at once or by type). Good tactics can carry the day - but unsurprisingly battles can get pretty messy. The battles generally are immense fun once you get the hang of them.
The open-ended nature of the game allows you to forge you own path. Swear allegiance to one lord and fight his wars for him. Act as mercenary and sell your sword to the highest bidder, or just head out to pillage or protect as it takes your fancy.
There are a lot of positives to this game. It is well thought out, generally well executed and very, very different to the mass of RPGs. But there are frustrations too. The hand-to-hand combat system is intuitive but once mounted it seems harder to predict when a blow will land or fail. The archery targeting is very hard to get used to, particularly at longer ranges. There are a number of display bugs and the usual issues of path-finding and getting blocked by terrain features which are all too common in 3D games. On the large map bandit parties may be obscured by town symbols and appear without warning ruining a carefully plotted approach. The method of managing your troops inventories and skills is not intuitive and results in a lot of unnecessary clicking. But all of these are minor niggles for a game which has so much potential and so much charm. Definitely worth a look, not least because you can play it (with full features) to level 7 before you buy it by downloading it from the Taleworlds website!
I fear my evenings will be spent riding the plains of Calradia for months to come!
brilliant October 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent! the best and only simulation of medieval combat, i have played this for weeks and it just keeps you hooked, the first game in a long while that has been worth every penny and more.a small developer with little money has made this and should bee applauded for it.the graphics are not as average as some people have stated my ati card played a face at the direct x 9 but played well on dx7! and it still looked better than morrowind which is ancient in comparison.This game points the way to a potential game in the future that has better npc speech, great in battle strategy and even more depth and variation sieges too could be much more intense with the addition of boiling oil catapults etc . By buying this game you contribute to these improvements for the future by allowing this small company to invest time and effort in bringing us the customers a great game in the future.Its so refreshingly different a story from the greed inspired debacle at EA games .perhaps pc games are not doomed after all..
The most fun you can have with a horse October 14, 2008
This game is great for so many reasons. Sure, it has it's downsides but when you bear in mind it's from an indie developer without megabucks you can really appreciate the concepts here; fresh ideas, thrilling gameplay and, for me, utter addiction.
The combat has been touted as some of the best real time combat yet seen and I have to agree. It's faced paced, thrilling and as you get better immensley satisfying. It's great fun charging yourself and your steed into a pile of enemies and seeing them crumple. It's also great trying out new weapons, be it ranged, polearms, axes, swords, halberds, etc. they all handle differently and you can really pick one to suit your playing style. Also, the combat system itself is deceptively simple. The idea of using the mouse to control where you deliver the blow makes more a more immersive experience.
I also like the whole building up an army thing. It's great to recruit some heroes and watch their skills grow. Taking humble recruits and turning them into hardened veterans is satisfying also. As you progress through the levels you can end up with huge armies clashing, with you controlling yourself and your men, in real time. So much more satisfying than Total War.
Also, the graphics, despite getting some slating, look fine to me. Particularly if you fight at dawn or dusk - lovely lighting effects (reflections on water, etc). I love the way the animation is so fuid and the little detailsare great, the puffs of dust from horses' hooves, the unconcious enemies being carried on their horses for a few seconds before falling.
Perhaps a weakness is the quests, they can be a little repetitive, but you don't have to do that many of them - you can do loads of stuff instead: Fight in tournamnets, hunt down looters, raid enemy villages, seige towns and castles.
Also, you perhaps don't get the sense that the world is 'living and breathing' as it could be. Villages and villagers look a little repetitive - It would be nice to see them doing all sorts of tasks rather than just wondering aimlessly.
However, now that this is out at retail, we may see some of these issues addressed. And to be honest, all of the good stuff outweighs these minor quibbles a hundredfold.
This game deserves to reach a wide audience, so try the free version (you can get to level 7 i think) from the taleworlds website. But if you want something totally different to the tedious games by numbers we often recieve try this! Create your own story!
 PATCH NEEDED October 9, 2008
This game requires an online activation to work. If you plan on running this game on a non internet computer then you need to download (via a different computer of cause) a 380md patch v1.003 in order to get the manual activation tab. (The game version 1.00 has had this removed dispite what the handbook says) Update the game then enter your code number from the handbook, this gives you a 2nd code go back online,enter this to get your activation code for the game.Then ENJOY. The game is fantastic fun ok the grapics are dated but who cares it's all about gameplay so hire those soldiers mount up & get stuck in.
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