The new “Captain” style multiplayer mode pits you against other army commanders in large scale battles. The guns are good, balanced and an interesting new wrinkle for the franchise. There is a definite balance to the weapons, but it is still satifying beyond belief to head shot someone with a rifle while blazing past them on a war stallion. The new guns in this game are all flintlock style single-shot, high-damage slow weapons best used in emergencies. With Fire and Sword’s guns are somewhat similar, with the addition of being completely deadly in the hands of seasoned riflemen. They are heavy, hard to aim, loud, and usually more for show than anything else. As anyone who has ever owned or fired a gun before knows, they are actually not the most reliably functional items in the world. The good news is that With Fire & Sword has more than its fair share of awesome battles in store for the avid gamer, with some interesting surprises as well.Īs mentioned before, the three largest additions to the gameplay in With Fire and Sword are guns, a new multiplayer “Captain” mode, and a completely different “real” world setting. Mount & Blade’s bread and butter has always been fantastic medieval combat, two or more huge armies clashing in epic bloodbaths for honor and glory. What About With Fire & Sword’s Gameplay? (4 out of 5) Still, the introduction of actual plotlines to the Mount and Blade universe is a good, and quite addiciting addition. Features like village management, vassal micromanaging and the importance of taverns are now almost completely gone or trivialized. While the writing is passable and sometimes engrossing, the unfortunate truth about the new epic storylines in With Fire and Sword is that they take away a large amount of the open ended gameplay of the original Mount & Blade. The writing is well done and believable, and on more than one occassion may make you look up at the clock and suddenly realize its 4 in the morning. They span the whole of Eastern Europe and are actually cloesly based off of the best selling Hungarian novels of the same name. My first thought when I encountered this feature was something along the lines of…“So its a fan-fiction Eastern European setting mod?” I could not have been more incorrect about the plot lines Taleworlds has included in With Fire and Sword. When you join a nation, you automatically are given direct access to your storyline, which includes several different *interesting* characters.
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With Fire & Sword is quite a bit different. In regular old Mount & Blade you could support claimaints to the thrones of nations, but that never amounted to anything more than gallivanting around Calradia with their useless butts in tow. One of the biggest new additions to the Mount & Blade franchise is the inclusion of an evolving epic storyline that changes depending on your allegiance to different kingdoms.
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Is With Fire and Sword’s Plot Any Good? (4 out of 5) With that said, there are some absolutely great things about this game that made this Mount and Blade With Fire and Sword review enjoyable. Unfortunately, the absence of any real improvements to the computer AI, graphical quality, and battle formations may make customers a little wary of dropping an extra 20 bucks on what amount to not much more than a glorified expansion pack. It really has nothing to do with the quality of the improvements to the game, but rather the lack of any new, real substance that differentiates With Fire and Sword from its predecessors. Well, fans of the original Mount & Blade may be left a little wanting with some of the new additions in With Fire & Sword. Sounds great right - who doesn’t want visceral medieval combat set in the backdrop of a beautiful storyline? The second new feature is the balanced inclusion of post-medieval period techonology that fit the Eastern European setting…aka guns, grenades and mines.
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The first new feature in With Fire and Sword is the inclusion of 3 coherent, epic storylines of political, economic, and physical strife. Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword is the second sequel to the Mount & Blade indie game franchise, and brings with it some exciting new features. Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword Features