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4 stars
Version: Mount & Blade 0.960
"Nice but expensive"
Pros: Nice to play, with a great interface. While I've never jousted, I have ridden horses and this FEELS like you're on horseback. Nicely done. I like how they give you different options to help improve the graphics because it's definitely heavy and my poor little computer couldn't take it. Due to slow graphics (even with the downgrades) I totally suck at hitting someone while on a moving horse but it's still pretty fun to play.
Cons: Way too expensive! They want $35 for something they're hardly doing any marketing for? Seems like they'd sell tons if they offered it at $19.99.
Also, I don't feel I get a good chance to really try out the game. You're limited to BOTH 30 days (game time) or level 8. First time I played, I ran out of time, the second I ran out of levels by day 12. They ought to make it an either/or not both.
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Updated on Aug 27, 2008Another Con after playing this for awhile... there's very few quests and they're always the same. You either: 1. deliver a letter; 2., hunt down a murderer (whose responses are always identical to the last murderer you hunted down); 3., collect taxes; or, 4. train soldiers.
It would be nice to have future incarnations have varying levels of responses and more options (say the murderer elects to change his ways or you convince him to come back and in combat you could have the options of disarming an opponent or knocking them out and not JUST killing them (and only by accident knocking them out). And more storyline would be nice.
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Incidentally, the CNET page (and several reviews herein) state that this is $25 to buy. That's not correct. When you go to their site, it's $35 to buy, not $25. Either they've raised their rates recently or CNET has a typo.
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