Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Reviews

there is a bit of a learning curve, but if you played the first one, it's not too bad. The mods make it great

i look forward to the day that the studio for this game hires programmers or at least people who have seen a computer to fix every single mechanic and make it playable. ill be around 182 by the time that happens, but at least our great, great, great, great grand kids can enjoy a fully functional game

honesty its a good game and you will get many hours playing it, but with mods just makes it so much better I love the RBM mod, and there is a huge modding community definitely check it out.

Combat = Great time Rest of Game = Repetitive and boring

Used to love this game when it was new and starting early access but it's been years and the development is terrible it's barely been improved in that time I can't play it without mods there's very little in the mid to end game, the story is nearly non existent and all the features they do have feel like they are only half finished. It feels like a skeleton of a game, it was fun at the beginning but the more I played it the more I realised how weak the features of the game were. A mile wide and an inch deep. Id only recommend if you're going to use mods

I reinstall this every few months in the hopes that something has changed or improved, but despite the $50 price and years of development it is the EXACT same game as Warband.

The core gameplay loop is great, battle are awesome. It is also a very shallow game though, and late game gets really tedious. I use a lot of mods and the devs frequently break them. I still recommend it.

This game is very addictive as I have been playing this game on and off for the past two-three years. The quests and diplomacy in this game is very shallow, and the main quests doesn't feel necessary at all, and is more fun to start off in sandbox mode. The troop design and armors in the game is horrible, and does not fit in with the time period of the game at all. The troops you fight with in battle also looks very poorly designed and cartoonish, and even its earlier installment Mount & Blade Warband has more believable and better looking armor and troops. The battles and sieges feels amazing, and is the appeal of the whole game, as you can fight alongside and against hundreds of troops onscreen which feels very cinematic and cool. My main complaint with the battles in game is that is feels to short and unrealistic, where your army doesn't have any proper formation when moving or fighting in the battle map. Another thing is that when two armies clash, it just forms one big messy or scattered blob, instead of two formations fighting and exchanging blows to each other, this is most commonly the case with infantry and cavalry formations, which makes it very hard to perform any tactics on the battlefield when your troops are all disorganized. Overall Rating: 7/10

A unique blend of 3rd/1st person melee combat, RPG, and 4x. Combat and RPG elements are very enjoyable. The 4x experience is more shallow than I would like and the main quest was a bit of a chore. Overall though I have really enjoyed my time playing. The number of NPCs on screen for battle is impressive. Watching 40 horsemen trample 100 archers is amazing. The mod support on steam workshop gave the game more life than I had expected as well. The game is definitely worth picking up, especially on sale.

okay im gonna be honest here i tried to love this game i really did m&b warband was my childhood love and bannerlord was my childhood dream but that dream never came true 5 years later the game still feels empty still feels grindy it lacks the motivation the story mod itself is a mess // SPOILER ALERT in the story mode, after you talk to those random people to either destroy the empire or to save the empire, the game puts you in a literal gameloop it gives you limited tasks that repeat themselves and you need to do like at least 20-50 of them or something which means, if you become a vassal of the empire, which you need to do, your main objective becomes to conquer the other 2 empires but, here is the thing the game puts you in a dilemma of choosing between either losing a castle/town and interfereing with whoevers conspiracy or letting the conspiracy grow and save the castle, which means you need to do extra 3-5 quests to not let the conspiracy grow it's literally shit the ai also fucking sucks the rival empire is literally sieging one of the most important towns of the kingdom and you there trying to fucking raid villages? siege a town that doesnt even matter with too many troops when you can siege another with way too less garnizon inside? the game just drives you crazy seeing the town you just besieged get retaken by the other kingdom literally throws your HOURS away just because your empress was sieging another unimportant castle they treat land like it's nothing all of this just drives me back to playing warband again with diplomacy 4 litdum THE GAME SUCKS THE AI SUCKS IT IS UNFINISHED ECONOMY MAKES NO SENSE MANAGING TOWNS MAKE NO SENSE THERE ARE MECHANICS THAT ARE PUT IN THE GAME JUST TO BE THERE NOT TO BE A WHOLE WITH THE GAME ITSELF GET YOURSELF TOGETHER TALEWORLDS