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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Spooky on June 06, 2005, 07:24:20 AM
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This one made a huge impression on me, guys...
check out this blog review and the game itself : best 11 bucks I ever spent on a game !
Review by Bill Harris (http://dubiousquality.blogspot.com/2005/05/mount-blade.html)
Official site (http://www.taleworlds.com/index.html)
excerpt from the review :
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Mount & Blade offers a few fundamental departures from traditional role-playing games. For one, there’s no magic.
No magic missiles, no healing potions. There’s no way to miraculously heal your wounds in combat, and that alone is a terrific design feature. Two, the skill tree is unusual.
Skills like surgery, scouting, and tracking are available. It’s a multi-tiered skill tree, with three different categories of skills, and some of the higher-level skills “feed” the lower ones; i.e., some lower-tier skills can’t be increased beyond a certain percentage of a related skill’s level. It’s thoughtful and well-laid out.
What is it specifically, though, that has kept me playing for such a long time? In a word: combat.
Regular readers of this column know that I’m not a combat guy. In Mount & Blade, though, combat is so brilliantly handled that I can’t call it anything else but sensational.
To begin with, the geography of the combat regions is so well-designed that it is both visually and tactically beautiful. Mountain passes, deep streams, and generally hilly terrain provide a wealth of tactical opportunities, and they’re beautiful graphically as well.
Second, and I can’t stress this enough: horses. Horses have never been as thoughtfully and beautifully represented as in this game. Combat on horseback is absolutely unforgettable, and since the primary camera is slightly behind and above your character, you get to see it all.
The animations for the horses are stellar and entirely convincing, and in rare moments you will see some spectacular things—a fallen enemy being dragged by his horse looks amazing, and a horse collapsing and throwing its rider is one of the best animations I’ve ever seen in a game, period."
I started to play just to see what it was, next thing I knew the afternoon was long gone and I was fumbling for my credit card so I could go past level 6 !!!
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Downloading now.
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Playing it. Its pretty much Morrowind but lease purty, no magic, and less articulate. Game to kill time with tho.
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That looks interesting... the screenshots have the same look and feel as Hidden & Dangerous.