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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Released On: Oct 25, 2022

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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.

After many updates, it is now the successor to Warband that it should be. Well worth picking up.

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.

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.

9/10 Unmodded 11/10 Modded Great base game with an awesome modding community. It has overtaken Skyrim as my favorite game with mods. Checkout Nexus mods for various game mods.

The first few hours are enjoyable, but after a certain point, it becomes repetitive.

Güzel bir oyun olsa da selefinin özelliklerini dahi taşımıyor, pek bir şey eklemiyor.

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.

The original game was made by a couple and was the jewel in everyone eyes because we all saw the potential, but 14 years later and supposedly with a publisher and everything now, this isnt any better.

Few games can go years after their original releases and have sequels as good as the first. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is one of them, developed and published by Turkish game developer TaleWorlds Entertainment. Best described as a strategic kingdom war simulation slash action role-playing game, Bannerlord is the sequel to the beloved PC game Mount & Blade: Warband which later came to Xbox One (and Game Pass, at some point). Players play as their own custom-made character to build an army, fight large scale battles, build your own kingdom, and so much more.

There’s a reason it popped up in my game of the year article. Bannerlord is a game that will keep you involved for hundreds of hours, especially if you like sandbox simulation games.

Picking up from where I left off, in Bannerlord players are responsible for their caravan. In the beginning you start off with a few pieces of gold and the stats you picked from the character creator, which builds a toon for you based on a questionnaire in conjunction with your starting location. From there, you build your own story: recruit troops, take on quests for villages and lords alike, and make a name for yourself in the world of Calradia, 210 years before the events of Warband take place. Of course, you’re not the only one running about—there are many, many other lords and armies that are running about and wreaking their own havoc on the place. The chaos caused by maintaining your reputation, fending off attacks from others, and so many other aspects always keep a playthrough interesting.

Bannerlord is played via a top-down open world map of Calradia, where players guide their armies around and about to their next destination (or chasing a band of looters for far too long). But when visiting settlements or in battle, gameplay switches to a third-person camera, setting the player in a large variety of maps that take in account of the player’s location, time of day, and weather. If you’re visiting, you can talk to the locals and make deals or take on quests. If you’re fighting, you’ll lead your army into fights against others. Fighting is simple yet very fun and there are many weapon types and fighting is dictated by the direction of your swing via your right joystick. Same with your blocking, although archery and throwable weapons are based more on stats and timing. Alongside you fight with a computer-controlled bots that aren’t the brightest but can hold their own in battle, and they can easily swarm you if given the chance.

This is where the game really shines. Those battles can have hundreds if not thousands of troops fighting against each other, multiple armies if the situation is calling for it. These fights are hectic as are sieges on castles and you don’t realise how much danger you’re truly in until arrows start flying towards you in the hundreds. Being able to set troop positions and delivering the right commands is key to making sure your best units don’t run in head-first and get slaughtered by tonnes of mooks. And although the game centers itself around battles, managing your resources and building towards your kingdom are ultimately some of the game’s end goals. There is a voiced campaign story about avenging your family but it’s not necessary in order to start a new save file.

The game also features a multiplayer mode specifically if you just want to run about and fight. But on PC it’s a bit hard to find a game much less on Xbox. Feelings amongst the Mount & Blade community have always seemed mixed on this mode, but it’s not the worst bout if you’re solely looking to fight. There are also custom battles against the AI, however, and I prefer to do just that.

The map is sizeable and give plenty of room for armies to clonk each other. (TaleWorlds Entertainment)

Despite a fun gameplay loop, I have a few frustrations with Bannerlord. Namely, the UI on console isn’t all too intuitive on a controller. As a PC first game, that’s not all too surprising and there is mouse and keyboard support for those interested. With this final release I haven’t run into any big bugs (although tactics and sieges don’t fair too well), but I have had my fair share of crashes and, in turn, lost a good chunk of progress. And lastly, end game hasn’t really got much to do once you have your kingdom set up. At times I really felt like I was playing a higher definition, more streamlined Warband, which isn’t a bad thing per se but considering the development time of the game I would have liked to see more substantial content, such as naval battles or giving more functions to villages and lords.

Bannerlord, in spite of its shortcomings, is a great game to play for tactics enthusiasts and players that love huge battles. Its simulation style of gameplay is fairly unique and keeps me coming back. An easy recommendation to all that love their sandboxes.