This strikes a chord with me especially, having come from Manchester. The game then has you fight a man in the street, to learn combat and how to defend yourself. A multitude of stats and abilities – Living the RPG fan dream. You begin by creating your own backstory and character, which decides the stats you receive initially (these can be changed to suit the kind of character you want, say, an archer, or swordsman, or trader). It essentially gives you a continent, Calradia, a medieval feudalistic country that is in a state of continual civil war between five rival factions, plus bandits, looters, deserters AND pretenders to the throne/lost causes that you can fight for. Not in a ‘I dreamed a dream way’ but in that it is a very free-form game. Here’s why I loved, and still love, Mount and Blade: Warband!įor those that don’t know what Mount and Blade is, it is whatever you want it to be.
No matter what we as gamers try and do to get through the backlog of titles that have come out over the last God knows how many years, there are always those old gems that pull us right back and glue us to the screen for hours on end.
