Say a Swadian Caravan is ambushed by the Sea Raiders. Only two sides can exist but multiple armies may band together. There can only be two sides, and depending on how many characters you allow to spawn, it's usually 20 v 20 on lower comps and can be up to 100 or 500 v 100 or 500 on good ones. Both factions start at opposite sides (or varying angles to throw you off). Think of joining a game of Halo and dropping down into the world. We haven't even got to the battles, which take place in their own little contained screens. That's just the world-map, riding in it and visiting towns. For the purposes of showing you, here are some screens:вЂ‹ But this is just the map - when you actually battle it's different. 808, it's a bit like Civilization IV's map. You appear on the map and you travel to various cities. Then you're pretty much kill-on-sight to half the map and you better be careful when traveling there.

If you want to truly experience the lands you'll be exploring, you need to pick a side - there are two in. But there are quests (some ridiculous, some tedious and some genuinely enjoyable) and there are some very obvious objectives. I'll explain how Mount&Blade works in a nutshell. It is a medieval game and what would a medieval game be without knights, archers, crossbowmen or various bandits and mercenaries that you can recruit to your side?ДЇor instance, I rarely work on cavalry.

Good Hosts or Party's (the thing you command and build from scratch) have plenty of cavalry-based units. Getting back to the game: Mount&Blade is cavalry involved. That's irrelevant really everything else is spelled correctly, spaced correctly and works magnificently. Why it's named so is because the game was developed by two Turkish people (now by a lot more) and I'm going to go ahead and guess that in Turkey, they don't have space bars. Some use archers, some use lances some use long swords and some just run your ass over.Д«ut that's just one facet of Mount&Blade that catches you from the get-go since the game is in fact named, Mount&Blade. There are many types of horses, their features are different (speed-involved, armor-involved, maneuverability-involved, etc.) and there are many types of riders that one can collect. The closest you probably get is to horses such as mounts but lets not go into World of Virgincraft. Cavalry was one of the most important things in 'medieval times' and yet it is underscored in almost every game you've ever played concerning the Dark Ages. Perhaps the biggest thing about Mount&Blade is the fact that it has cavalry. it's a pretty realistic and awesome medieval game. Automatically you think of knights, priests, paladins, mages, magic, potions and a bunch of other shit that's blown-out-of-proportion to catch your pathetic, short attention span-riddled mind.

Ramun the slave trader