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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Released On: Oct 25, 2022
77
8.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
77
67% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
17% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
77
67% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
17% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 221 User Ratings
8.1
73% Positive
161 Ratings
161 Ratings
19% Mixed
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
9% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 221 User Ratings
8.1
73% Positive
161 Ratings
161 Ratings
19% Mixed
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
9% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 ashes of the old. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is t...
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox Series X
- PlayStation 5
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
Initial Release Date: Oct 25, 2022
Developer:
- Taleworlds Entertainment
Publisher: Taleworlds Entertainment
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