New Mount & Blade game!

[Aus_Snow]

Not sure how many of you also liked the first two M&B PC games, but I'm quite looking forward to this one, I must admit.

The combat system is interesting, even if the graphics let it down a bit, compared to some recent titles. Personally though, gameplay will always trump such things as eye candy and, um, ear candy (?) ...

So - anyone else going to be playing this one?

Oh, linkage.

 

[Bluenose]

Mount and Blade is two awesome games. I'll certainly be looking hard at this. On the other hand, there are several firearms mods, and several historical mods. I'm pretty certain there's one which already does 16th century eastern Europe. So if that's what it adds I might not bother with this. If they add other useful features, that's much more likely to get me buying.

Also, five factions? Less than in Warband seems a little odd. And it's not as if there weren't several nations able to intervene in the area.

 

[GreyLord]

I tried the demo but couldn't get that swinging and killing from a horse right...so the bands on foot would actually kill me if I tried to engage them.

After that I really didn't buy the game or look at it again. Is it worth looking at again?

 

[Bluenose]

I tried the demo but couldn't get that swinging and killing from a horse right...so the bands on foot would actually kill me if I tried to engage them.

After that I really didn't buy the game or look at it again. Is it worth looking at again?

It takes a little practice to make mounted combat work. Direction and especially timing is very important. Foot combat is a lot easier. Still, stick with mounted and get competent at it, and you can be really as unpleasant as you like to foot troops. I've taken on bands of Sea Raiders solo with beginning characters before now. And once you've got a lance, and can charge couched - Lord Death-on-a-Horse rides!

One suggestion I'd make is to start with Warband. It let's you pick where to start, so you're not going to be in Khergit territory facing mobs of mounted archers as your first fight. It also gives you a very early mission, assuming you take it, which encourages you to recruit troops early on. They can do a lot of the fighting, while you concentrate on learning the controls. Once it's completed you earn a bit of money, you get a bit of reputation, and you have a small party of troops with you. After that, it's up to you.

 

[Katana_Geldar]

And it's good when you can finally be a king or queen of your land.

I was at war with the Khergits, and sued for peace as I was tired of the war and my relations with my subjects were waaaaay down. They refused so I took a city. And then they sued for peace.

This game is Total War in first person, can't wait for a new game!