I was pretty impressed with the video out earlier this year, yeah but I should of known better. :haha:

The heck? Warband is almost nothing like the total war series.

Warband is an RPG sandbox game, with sorta realistic combat. You can recruit people to form armies which you can loosely control, join a kingdom and gain a fief to support your armies, do quests, trade, and what ever the heck else you want. It also has limited skirmish type multiplayer if I recall.

Simplest thing is just to download it from taleworlds.com and I think you can play to level 5 to get a feel of it for free.


As for AvP from playing it at my friends house i don't think it has much replay value to speak of.

Borderlands is fun but rather repetitive after a while. Best played with friends though, and not pickup groups.

If you want a single player game, Just Cause 2 has a ton of stuff to do (its a huge sandbox world) and you can do lots of crazy things in it, but its not realistic.


Anyhow some reviews for the last 3 from ZP
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...ns-vs-Predator
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...48-Borderlands
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...2-Just-Cause-2

Even though I only own the Original Mount and Blade, I'd suggest Warband.


The mods for the original mount and blade ranged from Feudal Japan, to Star Wars, to the Wild West. Modding greatly improves the replayability of this game.

Combat is realistic, and fun.


In fact I feel like buying Warband now. :haha:

+1 for Just Cause 2, actually think it's the most fun I've ever had on a game, ever, seriously. It's awesome.

For the record: it isn't crippled by OSP. Ubi didn't even make it, just publishing, but obviously it's their logo you'll see first. They're trying very hard to make it look like they made it. :nope:

Apart from that, yeah, RUSE sucks imho. :lol:


I think Warband would be the best choice from the options I've seen so far. Don't ask me why, it just is. :DL

I say wait a week for Fallout New Vegas. :cool:

Or that. :hmmm:

Kinda wondering how Obsidian did though. Alpha Protocol was not exactly impressive on the technical level, but I think in this case they were more tightly supervised by Bethesda.

I've got it purchased and preloaded on Steam. We'll know on Tuesday. :yeah:

Bingo. My hardcopy has been preordered for about a month.

Well, then we'll be expecting some in-depth reviews shortly. :D

Yep :yep:

I can't. I made the mistake of specifically mentioning a couple of titles to my Fiancee as ideas for christmas gifts. This means, that i can't buy it for myself, and I have to wait tell xmas. At the least, i'll miss any prepatch frustration. If it wasn't for this, waiting for new vegas is a no brainer.