Daav from NoobFeed.com takes his chance at glory in this open world where nations may rise and fall at your own discretion. There is a decent game to be found in Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, with some unique traits, but the novel-based standalone from a Nobel Prize winner does suffer from several issues.

daavpuke via www.noobfeed.com »

"As much as it pains me to say it, the graphics are what you would expect from an indie game. They aren’t bad, but far from cutting-edge. The have chosen to go for the realistic approach rather than an artistic or cartoony style, which works at a glance but after a while you might become fed up with the stupidly small trees and lack of anything not made from stone. The models are still rudimentary at best and the animations are slower than a slug trying to climb out of a greasy bin bag."

KrisWB via electronicfarmyard.com »

"You can amass a legendary army and establish your empire if that's what you want, but the beauty about Warband is that there's never any pressure on you to do anything in particular. Players can spend their time as an aspiring merchant, a wanderer doing odd jobs for survival, a manhunter, the vassal of a king..."

tknation via tk-nation.com »

"We've known about Mount & Blade here on the Codex ever since the game was called "Way of the Sword" and then later "Warrider" before finally getting the name it's known by today. It was originally touted to us as an "Action-RPG" by armagan, the game's Turkish developer so naturally, we paid attention and tried it out. That was back in the heady days when the game was at version 0.2 something and was available for sale on a "buy the BETA" process. That is, you could pay about $12 USD on the pr..."

Mishtram via www.rpgcodex.net »

Calling all adventurers once again, I bring to you to a new journey It’s time to throw down your mage robes and spell books for a tale of truth and realism as the indie developer’s strike another blow to the corporations with Mount & Blade.

SuperGuido via www.gamersdailynews.com »