Mount & Blade: Warband

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8.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1353 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,216 out of 1353
  2. Mixed: 89 out of 1353
  3. Negative: 48 out of 1353
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  1. SoulLessbot
    Oct 30, 2013
    0
    Game is totally broken. No servers load so I can't play. I tried to fix it by turning off firewall and changing the ini but nothing works. Don't buy this broken game you will be wasting your money, it's broken and unplayable.
  2. DeCombatWombat
    Jul 18, 2013
    0
    This game is absolutely awful, boring, no direction, awful graphics for a game released in 2010, the gameplay is clunky and unresponsive. The game is an overall mess, even at £4 this game should not be brought.
  3. carnivorCactae
    Jan 3, 2016
    0
    Good Ideas, but man are the trailers, screenshots and positive fanboy-reviews misleading!

    This "game" just doesn't work at all! It doesn't work on a "simulation"-Level and it doesn't work as a "open world"-RPG-RTS. It's just a clunky mess of half-a**** ideas and bad implemented everything! But let me start at the beginning: The (optional) tutorial is pretty useless, since it    Good Ideas, but man are the trailers, screenshots and positive fanboy-reviews misleading!

    This "game" just doesn't work at all! It doesn't work on a "simulation"-Level and it doesn't work as a "open world"-RPG-RTS.
    It's just a clunky mess of half-a**** ideas and bad implemented everything!

    But let me start at the beginning:
    The (optional) tutorial is pretty useless, since it doesn't explain most important basics to you.
    Yes you learn "fight" with different weapons, cope with a unresponsive control-system that was clearly designed with a motion-control in mind or a not-thought-through-idea of ... erm... "realism" in mind.
    But it doesn't introduce you to so many important points like commanding your troops, cope with multiple enemies, give you feedback ... nada!

    If you expect combat-mechanics like in Skyrim with a mix of Dark Messiah of M&M or Chivalry, put your expectations far away!
    You are in for a unresponsive and buggy mess.
    Arrows can go just through your enemies without even hurting them, hit-detection of your melee-weapons is right off buggy and you can't even run!
    Since there is no gore you just have to rely on a little text that tells you how much damage you actually deal.
    This buggy mess tries to give you the impression of a medi eval-battle-sim, and can't even manage to add gore by default!
    Prepare to get backstabbed a lot.

    You are NOT travelling through a huge world like trailers and screenshots might suggest. No! You are just slowly moving on an overwold map, clicking with your mouse and waiting sometimes for a response.
    The (often random) battles are fought in a relatively small area with invisible walls everywhere!

    The OST. A mess like everything else in this game. The most random, unepic and generic "medi-eval"-songs shoved into low-quality .ogg files, you can imagine.(Hell! They even put in a Hallelujah-Chorus! WTF?!) Looped of course!
    No way getting mods for music replacements!

    ("Dialogues" are presented in an ugly interface and are at least interesting to read, but your choices are totally irellevant, since yourt options often give you random answers.
    For example: A Guy at the bar talks to me about joining my army. Why would I ask hima bout a kidnapping I never even heard of before in response?! ANd man, why isn't it at least half-way voiced - like BG managed years ago?!)

    It's a shame you are expected to pay 20 bucks for this unpolished waste of time (and 20 another bucks for a DLC with guns...)!    … Expand
  4. Grafonn
    Feb 2, 2014
    0
    Тупое дерьмо, эта игра сосет член.Мне дали квест пойти и освободить сына одного пиздюка и я тихо пробрался в замок подхожу к темнице ну и там стоит стражник его надо уебать и взять ключи, но у него меч и броня пиздатая,а у меня палка и броня и олений кожи,а все потому что в замок с крутой броней и мечом нельзя зайти потому что тебя с палят ну и этот пиздюк тебя убивает все время.Тупое дерьмо, эта игра сосет член.Мне дали квест пойти и освободить сына одного пиздюка и я тихо пробрался в замок подхожу к темнице ну и там стоит стражник его надо уебать и взять ключи, но у него меч и броня пиздатая,а у меня палка и броня и олений кожи,а все потому что в замок с крутой броней и мечом нельзя зайти потому что тебя с палят ну и этот пиздюк тебя убивает все время.
  5. gcd872000
    Mar 18, 2014
    0
    the graphics are **** controls suck...and for the love of god there is no voice acting. Its 2014 I shouldn't have to read every thing an NPC says in a game....
  6. Broyax
    Jan 1, 2017
    0
    Mais qu'est-ce que c'est que ce "truc" ? un jeu de rôle, ça ? une (mauvaise) blague, ouais !

    Passons sur les graphismes datés, certes vilains au possible mais là n'est pas l'essentiel. Parlons plutôt du système de sauvegarde -unique- qui ne permet de sauvegarder que lorsqu'on quitte le jeu (!), une hérésie dans tout jeu de rôle qui se respecte. Or, clairement Mount and machin ne se    Mais qu'est-ce que c'est que ce "truc" ? un jeu de rôle, ça ? une (mauvaise) blague, ouais !

    Passons sur les graphismes datés, certes vilains au possible mais là n'est pas l'essentiel. Parlons plutôt du système de sauvegarde -unique- qui ne permet de sauvegarder que lorsqu'on quitte le jeu (!), une hérésie dans tout jeu de rôle qui se respecte. Or, clairement Mount and machin ne se respecte pas, y compris dans son interface tout droit sortie d'une poubelle. Les menus sont atroces et l'ergonomie la plus élémentaire n'est même pas respectée.

    La maniabilité est tout sauf maniable, les contrôles sont une plaie et la jouabilité est aux abonnées absentes : "Madame Jouabilité est actuellement indisponible, veuillez ré-essayer ultérieurement, et accessoirement, allez vous faire foutre."

    Tout est à l'avenant dans cet erzatz de jeu programmé avec le fion (même le menu des options est buggué sa mère et la moitié des dialogues sont en anglais... lol !). Cette erreur de la nature a été conçu par une (war) bande de trisomiques. On se croirait revenu 15 ans en arrière. Et encore.

    Une grosse merde infernale comme on en voit (heureusement) assez peu... mais là c'est le pompon !    … Expand
  7. RawDisk
    Nov 14, 2019
    0
    Muito ruim
    Gráfico ruim
    Jogabilidade ruim
    Nem um pouco dinâmico
    História ruim
    Áudio ruim
    Resumindo, ruim
  8. igruprohodil
    Apr 1, 2020
    0
    Multiplayer looks like mordhau and chivalry, but worse visually. Single player with outdated graphics, all npcs look the same, with buttons instead of eyes, combat is primitive, i don't see how this game is worth 50$, i refunded the game. This is literally false advertisement, screenshots and trailer videoes look much much better than the game is, so many fanboys giving it 10s and 9s it isMultiplayer looks like mordhau and chivalry, but worse visually. Single player with outdated graphics, all npcs look the same, with buttons instead of eyes, combat is primitive, i don't see how this game is worth 50$, i refunded the game. This is literally false advertisement, screenshots and trailer videoes look much much better than the game is, so many fanboys giving it 10s and 9s it is unbelieveable.....… Expand
  9. 2ran
    Jul 8, 2020
    0
    You can play this game for many years. You can play this game for many years. You can play this game for many years.
  10. OriginaleUser
    Nov 4, 2022
    0
    I love this game. So immersive for 2010 game. Too much interesting mechanics, for example - "Lord Defects",when your favorite lord defects, u got negativ emotions and memories when you capture that fief. Economics in game is broken, buying dye houses and you so rich. But you can be a trader. Buying cheaper at region number 1 and sell it in region 2. When you travelling, you can meet theI love this game. So immersive for 2010 game. Too much interesting mechanics, for example - "Lord Defects",when your favorite lord defects, u got negativ emotions and memories when you capture that fief. Economics in game is broken, buying dye houses and you so rich. But you can be a trader. Buying cheaper at region number 1 and sell it in region 2. When you travelling, you can meet the deserters, sea raiders, taiga bandits, looters, mountain bandits, steppe bandits. desert bandits. Too much obsctacles for travelling, but every battle unique in its own way.… Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#53 Best PC Game of 2010
11
#11 Most Discussed PC Game of 2010
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#7 Most Shared PC Game of 2010

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. PALGN
    80
    Although there is still room for improvement, Warband's excellent combat system, respectable multiplayer and a lifespan that will prove to be a total timesink means that the game is well worth the USD$29.99 price tag on Steam. Fans of the action RPG genre and medieval games in general would do well to pick this one up.
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  2. RPG Fan
    80
    All in all, Mount and Blade: Warband is a great game, even despite its flaws. The overall concept is satisfying, and with a more heavyweight publisher behind the team at TaleWorlds, this is one game that could be absolutely great.
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  3. GameStar
    68
    On the one hand, there are the open world and the freedom to do what you want to do, on the other hand, the world is lifeless. It's a great game for some people, but the opposite for most.
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