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Has anyone tryed this game yet?

There's a 400mb demo on their website: Mount&Blade

You start out as a person with a sword and a horse, attacking looters and saving/looting villages, and you eventually grow in power to where you command your forces to seige castles and wage war against the other kingdoms in a medival nonfantasy setting.

Here's a few videos:



And those most interesting thing about this game is that it was made by two people in Turkey!

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Lokus

I love this game but to really get the full benefit of it, you need some mods. Without them, there's no real storyline or ways to effectively control or create a kingdom/empire. They also add a lot of different units, weapons, armor, quests etc. My favorite ones are Calradia at War and Native Expansion. Couched lance is still overpowered though.

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Baraka_Guru

I tried it out but was afraid to get into it (i.e. fork over the money to buy it). I might just wait until the expansion is released this fall. They're supposed to be redoing the graphics and adding to the game's AI and diplomacy, all the while adding a multiplayer component.

Maybe I'll play the demo a bit more to really get a feel for it. I liked the combat gameplay on horseback; it had a cool feel to it...if not a bit of a learning curve. The momentum of the horse seems well done (especially compared to World of Warcraft's grossly unrealistic mount physics).

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Lucifer

I liked it, easy to get into, but I'm with B_G in that I'll wait for the expansions before I drop the money. One thing I didn't like, hopefully it will get fixed, is when you speak to someone, you can only ask where the nobility is. I spent half the demo wandering into half the villages trying to track down some ruffian a lord had tasked me to find.

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