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- Paradox Interactive
- Paradox Interactive
- Paradox Interactive
- Paradox Interactive
Mount & Blade: Warband - Napoleonic Wars
Released On: Apr 19, 2012
Metascore
Generally Favorable
83
7.9
All Platforms
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
83
100% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
83
100% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Napoleonic Wars shows that future is the wrong way for shooters to go. Excellent Napoleon-era gameplay has totally new, totally fresh dynamics. [May 2012]
Mount & Blade game system has been successfully adapted to Napoleon era. Guns, uniforms and other equipment from that era are nicely portrayed as well. The Game has a low price and that too is another plus.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 100 User Ratings
7.9
73% Positive
73 Ratings
73 Ratings
13% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
14% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 100 User Ratings
7.9
73% Positive
73 Ratings
73 Ratings
13% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
14% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
Best multiplayer FPS game I played so far.
I don’t know why exactly, but the Napoleonic Wars DLC for Mount & Blade: Warband is the best multiplayer game I have ever played. It is simple, silly, repetitive but I had so much fun with it and can play it anytime over and over again.
I skipped the main game Mount & Blade: Warband completely back then and tried the Napoleonic Wars DLC immediately, to play with some friends. The whole atmosphere the game offers, the setting, the community, the mechanics, it is just great.
In the core, it is just Mount& Blade, with the same awful shooting mechanics, the same stiff movement and the horrible graphics, but you can now play with 200 freaking people on a map, making for some intense battles. You choose a faction, join the team, select your style of musketeer or cavalry to play and lets go. Most of the maps consists of a fortress or strategic location, that one team defends, and the other tries to take over.
The graphics are the same as Mount and Blade: Warband, and are ugly as hell. In this game however, I don’t give a flying ****. It is functional and that is what matters.
The animations are also hilariously bad but again, I don’t care. The smoke from musket fire and canons do enhance the graphics and overall atmosphere greatly, and bodies stay on the ground for a fair amount of time.
The classic renaissance soundtracks in the background are great, and really gives you the feeling that you are fighting in France, in the year 1780.
The controls and aim mechanics are horrendous, but this is the whole charm of the game. You try to aim as accurately as possible, and pray to God that you will hit. When it happens and you see the enemy go down, a feeling of euphoria is washing over you.
Because of the huge amount of players, battles are intense and feel very realistic, despite the God awful graphics and animations. You see a bunch of players approaching when the wall is finally breached, and immediately, fifty other players set up defensive positions near the breach and try to stop the incoming attackers.
Speaking of realism, everything from running to reloading your musket is as tedious as possible, just like real life. It takes ten thousand years to reload your musket and when you miss, it is either poke the enemy with your bayonet, or accept your death.
The best aspect of this game is the role playing of the community. One player takes on the role of an officer, commands several other players that are grenadiers, to follow him, form a line and stand their ground. Meanwhile, some idiot with a flute is walking back and forth while the bullets fly around across the field. On a mountain, you build fortifications, the officer commands you and your squad mates to stand behind it and wait for the orders of your officer. Meanwhile, a full squad of enemy cavalry is rushing toward you, finishing you off one by one. A moron with a drum meanwhile, is trying to run for his life, while playing a catchy beat.
It does not get any better than this game and I can play Mount & Blade: Warband – Napoleonic Wars any day, any time.
Definitely recommend this game.
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Best online mass shooter & war game out there. Setting is awesome, combat system is good.
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An excellent mod commercially distributed for the Mount & Blade: Warband game is brutal and full of vivid wars of the Napoleonic era. All of you tacticians, strategists, artillerists and even sharpshooters, you must rejoice because it's a great gaming piece that's been obviously made by people, who love it, understand it and who know its players.
Don't trust the bad first impression. Napoleonic Wars is not a
re-skinned version of Mount & Blade, but a self-contained game. Give
it a chance, if you're interested in the 19th century history.
This is the greatest DLC I've ever bought for a game, I absolutely love It!!! brings a whole new aspect to Mount & Blade as the regiment vs regiment have just gotten 10 times better, and maps Included on the DLC are amazing.
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I’ll admit this is a very interesting theme, as there are not many video games in Napoleonic era, except maybe the strategy ones. The idea is good, the music is great, the execution is also interesting but it did not hold my attention for too long. Playing a multiplayer shooter with muskets and bayonets is a neat idea, but I have found the shooting and overall gameplay rather dull.
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If you're looking for a great single player campaign like Mount and Blade original, DON'T BUY THIS. It has no single player campaign. Granted it's my fault for not researching this enough before buying it off Steam, but I'd just like to get that out there to anyone in the same situation as me BEFORE they waste their money on this game.
There is no real roleplay experience involved here, just a pretty mediocre multiplayer FPS. What made Mount and Blade truly enjoyable for me was the campaign, this expansion is like stripping the best part **** and leaving you with a mediocre product.
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WOW the weapons in the game are way too inaccurately portrayed. Those flintlock used to be rather inaccurate (with today's standards), but they were not THAT INACCURATE! You can not even shoot a soldier standing 10 meters away from you. That is not accurate at all. If you do not believe me go and read a few military history papers about the subject (preferably written be real historians, and the more up-to-date ones). Those flintlock were accurate minimum to 25 meters (effective range), and could shoot to hundreds of meters (though inaccurately). Nobody would use guns (not even in volley fire) if they could not shoot someone standing 10 meters from them...
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I don't know why people are giving this game such high reviews. I've been a fan of M&B since it came out, but I hate this one. Half the servers are no shooting allowed, just lame bayonette fighting. Seriously? I cannot fathom why, since this game has the exact same melee mechanics as the original M&B, except that it just has the god awful almost always 1 shotting bayonette, that has terrible physics.
The original M&B was a 9/10 for me, it was just missing multiplayer. M&B warband was a 10/10 for me. Fire and Sword was alright, a 7/10, but this is a well earned 1/10. The uniforms are good, that is about it.
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Summary Napoleonic Wars is a multiplayer DLC expansion pack for Mount & Blade: Warband featuring the final years of the French Empires struggle to remain the dominant power of Western Europe in the early 19th century. Experience the thrill of Napoleonic warfare first hand - Take part in the invasion of Russia or fight the French at Waterl...
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Apr 19, 2012
Developer:
- Taleworlds Entertainment
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
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