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- Taleworlds Entertainment
- Taleworlds Entertainment
- Taleworlds Entertainment
- Taleworlds Entertainment
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Released On: Oct 25, 2022
77
8.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
77
68% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
16% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
77
68% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
16% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Overall Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a great game. It’s a case of if it’s not broke, don’t fix it, but it’s been improved on with some beautiful graphics and refining of basic gameplay. TaleWorlds continues to polish it with patches and listen to their community about it. This is hands down one of the best games that let you charge with your cavalry archers while you charge ahead with your lance to end banditry in the area and everything in between.
Grind and jank aside, there is nothing else like a Mount and Blade game, and Bannerlord is undisputably the best one yet. Its uniqueness alone makes it worth playing. To talk about it that way is to do it a disservice though; the true marvel of Bannerlord is that it actually delivers on what is an astonishingly ambitious concept. The two halves of the game complement each other perfectly. It may be on a slow boil, but once it gets up a head of steam, you won't be able to put it down.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 277 User Ratings
8.0
73% Positive
201 Ratings
201 Ratings
19% Mixed
53 Ratings
53 Ratings
8% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 277 User Ratings
8.0
73% Positive
201 Ratings
201 Ratings
19% Mixed
53 Ratings
53 Ratings
8% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
A truly unique game in which you play as a warrior, a strategist, a trader, a mercenary, a husband, a king, a criminal… The medieval world will let you do as you please - mainly to lead huge armies into epic battles. But it’s obvious how much better everything could have been if the game fulfilled its true potential.
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is a game that can swallow you whole and make you forget about everything else - including its own flaws. That's the beauty of this series - the gameplay, and particularly the large-scale, real-time combat, makes us shrug off ugly face models, underdeveloped diplomacy, or dumb AI.
Despite some shallow ancillary systems, Bannerlord is the master of medieval warfare
I’ve never been a big fan of games that require you to invest huge amounts of time before they get good. Our time is valuable and while Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord does eventually get good, the uninteresting grind along the way and lifeless world didn’t do much to pull me back. Fans of the series will still have a great time and if you are willing to invest your time you’ll definitely be rewarded for it, but its frustrating to see so much potential for an even better game left unrealized.
Though Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord provides a fun outlet with its battles and the strategies you can employ within them, everything else is lacking in comparison. You might get a solid 5-10 hours of enjoyment out of the campaign before you it dawns on you that there’s not much else to discover but a disappointing realisation.
A unique experience. Bannerlord has a completely unique gameplay style. The game is moddable and becomes incredibly enjoyable with mods. I think it's the best game in the world.
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Overall Bannerlord is an improvement on the original Mount & Blade (including Warband). That said I feel that for a 10-year gap between games, the list of improvements is shorter than I would expect it to be and the list of questionable Taleworld design choices is still longer.
What has improved:
++Sieges are a fleshed out experience with equipment and many possible strategies. This was the most enjoyable part of the game for me.
+Combat graphics feel nice
+Fairly sophisticated command system
What needs improvement:
-Character models and animations are in the uncanny valley and graphics-wise make the game feel like it came out in 2005.
-The economy is poorly balanced. Owning the maximum number of workshops or trading makes maybe 2-3k gold a day, which won't even support a mid-size party. The only real way to make money is to defeat another lord's party and get anything from 10-300k's worth of equipment which is more than any city can even buy (making it a chore to get rid of). There are also taxes from owning settlements, but maintaing a garrison will get rid of most of that. Also settlements can't even manage their own food and will often starve themselves.
-The first-person perspective is fun in battles and **** in the overworld. You can't really control multiple parties, you can only converse with lords in person (has no one heard of messengers?) and cities can only be tasked to do new things in person as well. It makes the overworld map very tedious and micro-managey.
-Dozens of other gameplay choices and minor bugs that make me wonder how much the game was actually playtested.
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unfinished buggy game, the multiplayer servers keep crashing. Has been in early access for 2 years with the same problem.
Even in single player they have not added all the skills and the game is buggy.
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Summary The horns sound, the ravens gather. An empire is torn by civil war. Beyond its borders, new kingdoms rise. Gird on your sword, don your armour, summon your followers and ride forth to win glory on the battlefields of Calradia. Establish your hegemony and create a new world out of the ashes of the old. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is t...
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox Series X
- PlayStation 5
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
Initial Release Date: Oct 25, 2022
Developer:
- Taleworlds Entertainment
Publisher: Taleworlds Entertainment
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