Nov 26 2008
Mount & Blade Is Awesome
I’ve just discovered the coolest game ever for PC. Mount & Blade.
Horrible name, that in my scanning for a new PC experience, almost made me disinterested before I even bothered to find out more about the title, but I’m happy I did because Mount & Blade is fantastic. I’ve never played a game before that offered the depth of horseback combat that Mount & Blade does, with an unparalleled level of realism and control as you spear enemies on massive battlefields. The graphics won’t receive any real awards, but that hardly matters when a game controls this smoothly, or offers this much fun sword fighting.
Did I mention you can fire arrows from horseback as you’re moving across the battlefield, really hard to get good at, but awesome to have the opportunity.
M&B takes place in the fictional world of Calradia where you are thrust between five warring factions, and forced to make your own way throughout the world. You can become a lone swordsman, or a commander of armies leading great battles over the games rolling hills.
Coolest thing ever.
M&B is fairly new, and an indie game, so you can pick it up cheap, if you haven’t already. And I would definitely suggest you do, because M&B offers the sort of sword swinging action packed experience that I’ve really never played before.
Oh, btw, Halo 3: Recon got a name change today, to the much lamer Halo 3: ODST. Because Bungie feels that the name Recon was misleading, and as you play a lone ODST soldier in the new campaign, Halo 3: ODST is much more accurate for the game’s content.
I think it’s lame, because if you say Halo 3: ODST it sort of rhymes, and that makes it sound lame. Not like a badass fps where you fight alien invaders with vicious weapons and absolute malice. Halo 3: ODST sounds more like something with bunnies, and the covenant comes to play with the bunnies, and as an ODST soldier you see them and join them in playing with the bunnies. And you know, that’s what Halo is all about.
