Paradox Interactive and Taleworlds Entertainment today released several new videos for upcoming action RPG title, Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword.
This title will bring the Mount & Blade world into the European Renaissance. Costumes, armor, and weapons will be included which depict the era, including muzzle-loading handguns and rifles. Otherwise it’s the same cruft.
Well… They added a bunch of new multi-player features apparently, but that’s confusing because this is not a multi-player game—I mean: They put a multi-player mode into Warband, but it wasn’t really multi-player Mount & Blade (which would have been awesome) it was, instead, a bit of uninspired deathmatching in the Mount & Blade environment. Without the politics and team-building, Mount & Blade is just a crappy battle simulator. Playing the single player campaign, I usually would just let the computer determine the outcome of my battles without actually fighting in them.
Some of you may be familiar with my love/hate relationship with the Mount & Blade series (I’m talking about the actual game here, not the multi-player anymore). It’s an excellent idea, which is mostly well executed, and even attractive despite its aging engine, but it has a couple of seemingly minor flaws which make the game frustratingly impossible to play. If those issues are addressed, I will cry out “Huzzah!”, and renounce my former disparaging marks, but I’ll have to see it to believe it.
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