Granted, I haven’t encountered that many games that focus on realistic medieval mounted combat. Though the Mount & Blade series lacks the polished feel of other sandbox-like games, they are probably the most accurate RPG representation of a medieval world I have encountered. When I say semi-realistic, I mean that there’s no magic, and that the characters mostly stick to what we would consider the societal norms of a medieval realm. The games prior to With Fire and Sword took place in a semi-realistic fictional medieval land called Calradia. You create your own character and lead a band of heroes and soldiers in a world wrought with war (you get to decide who makes up your army and how many soldiers you take along). For those of you that are not familiar with the Mount & Blade series, they are a set of open-ended RPGs focusing on medieval mounted combat (hence the “mount” in the title).
I have been quite a fan of TaleWorlds’ Mount & Blade series for some time. I just play ’em and sometimes have opinions.
Also, I am not a video game developer, nor am I a critic. I think I’ve played over 50 hours in Warband, and I still enjoy running around the map doing my thing and definitely have not seen every aspect of the game.
With a game like one of the Mount & Blade series, you have to spend a lot of time playing the single-player campaign to really experience it all.
#Mount and blade fire and sword any way to take all loot full#
I say a “reaction to” because I’ve logged less than 10 hours and therefore I have not gotten the full experience yet. This is the first time I have actually sat down to write a review of, or rather a reaction to, a video game.