For example, playing as a rich nobleman will make your route to power a lot shorter and easier than deciding to play as a peasant woman with a thing for upward mobility and communes. Your gender and social status have real impact in the same way they would have done in the actual Medieval era. Sound easy? The road to rule is a long one, fraught with dilemma and tough choices, and even when you finally take the kingdom, it ain’t easy being the new King/Queen/Tyrannical Despot.Īs with most RPGs you start by creating your character, and with it some pretty hefty decisions that will greatly affect how easy the road to the crown will be. This achieved by raising an army and uniting, (or subjugating) the lands warring factions.
Players are tasked with ultimately ruling the realm of Calradia and becoming its ruler. Its functional visuals aside though, Mount & Blade: Warband is one of the most ambitious, challenging and open-ended RPGs I have ever played.
With hundreds of archers, infantry and cavalry all busily massacring each other, last gen consoles probably would have thrown a fit and burst into flames upon attempting to run Warband, which is probably why it has taken so long for the series to make the leap to consoles. That being said, I doubt my PS3 could have dealt with the sheer amount of bodies and the ensuing carnage going on during one of the game’s huge battles. While most ports to the PS4 get the ol’ remaster spit and polish, Warband is straight up port. If you’re the kind of person that can only enjoy a game if it looks ‘next gen,’ then you’re going to want to claw your eyes out. If I’m feeling kind (and I am, because the game is cracking overall), graphically, Warband looks a little dated. Mount & Blade: Warband was originally released on the PC six years ago after having several friends go missing for months at a time, only to turn up at my door raving about their exploits as the emperor of Calradia, I thought it was about to time to see what all the fuss was about when the PS4 version landed on my desk a couple of weeks ago.
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