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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

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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 ashesThe 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 the eagerly awaited sequel to the acclaimed medieval combat simulator and role-playing game Mount & Blade: Warband. Set 200 years before, it expands both the detailed fighting system and the world of Calradia. Bombard mountain fastnesses with siege engines, establish secret criminal empires in the back alleys of cities, or charge into the thick of chaotic battles in your quest for power.    … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. GameSpace
    May 12, 2020
    90
    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.
  2. GameWatcher
    Nov 23, 2022
    85
    Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is very much a superior sequel in so many ways. It’s still a bit of a brick wall to get past in terms of understanding its finer points, but keep hammering away and you will find them.
  3. Riot Pixels
    Dec 31, 2022
    81
    Mount & Blade 2 transports us into an endless chaotic world full of events, battles and amazing adventures. At times it feels like a victim of its own complexity — some of the game's intricate systems don’t mesh together or never work as advertised, the economy is flawed, there’s a frightening dearth of conventions… Yet this elaborate medieval world will eat up at least a hundred hours out of your life.
  4. Ragequit.gr
    Oct 31, 2022
    80
    Slightly or greatly improved in most areas, still lacking in a few others when compared to Warband and its essential mods, Bannerlord is an altogether updated version of the Mount & Blade series' addictive gameplay and the undisputed king of Sandbox RPGs.
  5. MGG
    Nov 2, 2022
    80
    Mount & Blade II Bannerlord is a perfected version of a medieval sandbox game concept where you alternate between territory conquest, large-scale battles and the progression of your character and your kingdom. The few AI wanderings and the repetitiveness of the quests and dialogues do not detract from this exhilarating sandbox where your story is written as you make decisions and take actions.
  6. Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey)
    Oct 30, 2022
    79
    Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord takes you to the Calradia and then makes you drink wine from someone's skull. Good game but still has the potential to be better. I can't wait to see it.
  7. GameGrin
    Nov 15, 2022
    55
    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 38
  3. Negative: 8 out of 38
  1. bkaramursel
    Feb 19, 2023
    10
    Warband'ın üzerine büyük eklemeler yapılmış. Oyunun kendi alanında tek örneği yok. benzersiz bir deneyim sunuyor.
  2. Multeciisavar
    Nov 9, 2022
    10
    Excellent game. Everyone should definitely play. Let the baby who says this game is bad, should play the tame.
  4. GGEZNICETRY
    Oct 28, 2022
    10
    This game is amazing completely fleshed out systems all around good
    1000 hours will be put into this with mods at least
  5. Maerhin
    Jan 30, 2023
    9
    Un jeu dans son genre, un équilibre entre combat, stratégie (politique et bataille), gestion et jeu de rôle.
    Le jeu est plus complet que    Un jeu dans son genre, un équilibre entre combat, stratégie (politique et bataille), gestion et jeu de rôle.
    Le jeu est plus complet que Warband, les sièges, la forge, la politique, la vente, la culture des peuples amélioré ainsi que tout ce que cela apporte est vraiment un plus sachant que qu'il y a d'autres choses encore.
    Le jeu doit encore avoir des mises à jour je pense mais il est dans la bonne direction.
    Bonus : Les mods vont rendre le jeu meilleur    … Expand
  6. Palmcton
    Feb 26, 2023
    8
    Jogo ótimo demonstrando como e a vida onde você tem incríveis 5 minutos de glória e depois e preso por estar em guerra com seu exército de 40Jogo ótimo demonstrando como e a vida onde você tem incríveis 5 minutos de glória e depois e preso por estar em guerra com seu exército de 40 pessoas contra 1400
    Além de ser preso outras 7 vezes tentando escapar    … Expand
  7. Connolius
    Dec 23, 2022
    7
    330 hours in, played throughout the early access phases as various kingdoms. Needless to say, Ive enjoyed playing.

    7/10 with a    330 hours in, played throughout the early access phases as various kingdoms. Needless to say, Ive enjoyed playing.

    7/10 with a recommendation to buy the game, in fact I want you to buy the game.

    This isn't a deep kingdom management sim, don't expect intrigue as such. There are periods of peace and then war, that's the diplomatic extent. There is little in the way of character development other than trying to get nobles too like you to join your armies, or you develop influence so it doesn't matter.

    What is most disappointing is the sheer potential if they were able to bring the combat and kingdom management together. Could be the best of this genre -ever- so may you lament that but then as your wading through pitch battles you forget all that too.

    Their family system has a ton of potential, and you feel they are on the cusp of something great here in a CKIII style. Hopefully there are mods for this, or DLC. If they do MB III and dont get this right then the devs have failed.

    Finally, there are some bugs. Only once did I have one break the game but id recommend keeping a few running saves going. Haven't had a problem since full release.

    Id 9/10 this if the above were addressed but Ill give it a 7 with a strong buy the game recommendation. So many hours and only a 7? Yeah, its been a really fun 7 and worth the time investment. You may buy a 9 and not find you play it as much, that is how fun this game can be so the financial investment is well worth it.

    One battle my infantry were getting pushed back hard and we were about to lose the fight and maybe the war so I brought back my remaining horse under my command had to make a quick choice to head hunt their leader who was in their rear with nearly unprotected archers or help our infantry, I shored up our inf and took a plunge into their flanks, they must have been wavering themselves despite their success it turned the tide in battle. Sure you say, sounds "fun" but we had been fighting in waves across the map for quite a long time, tide of victory going back and forth, bodies strewn about the landscape, my health was near zero and they had the numerical advantage. When the battle was over it was such a relief and buzz that other games of this genre just cant deliver, in fact its rare for any game to be honest.

    You can go archer heavy, play a defensive shell and in a massive battle watch your opponent drop while your archers arrows look like locusts descending upon your foe then smash their first wave with your infantry while you circle behind with the cavalry to stop enemy reinforcement.

    Maybe you decide to go Mongol hoard on horseback and nip the Roman-esque Empire like legions into pieces, till all they are doing is standing on a hill cowering under their shields with your horse archers wearing them out into a full rout.

    Its super cool and fun.

    If you want to experience major medieval style combat this would be the game for you, 9/10. It can be very rewarding and addictively fun. If you want a kingdom management sim, maybe still buy it as Id bet you'll have more fun than you expect.    … Expand
  8. shemaforash
    Feb 13, 2023
    0
    The TaleWorlds team has deserted multiplayer development and left us with a barren and soulless experience. A game that has taken roughly 12The TaleWorlds team has deserted multiplayer development and left us with a barren and soulless experience. A game that has taken roughly 12 years to release as an "improvement" upon warband. This is pure lies and not true. Warband was leagues beyond bannerlord, it had better combat, better equipment selection and better gamemodes. In fact, the game is new and multiplayer is mostly dead. The only content that exists is multiplayer mods, those are made by reverse engineering code that TaleWorlds hasn't released for public use. it took almost 3 years for us to get custom servers so we could host. This game is not "new", it just released but it's been in early access for better part of 3 years. We were invited to alpha test the game and the developers flat out told us that things were not changing and this is the direction upper management had chosen to go. I am deeply disappointed in this game.… Expand

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