This game is just phenomenal, i missed the whole Mount&Blade era but a friend insisted that i tried the Warband demo a few months ago.
Oh boy, how much this thing addicted me, so much that even i that don't play much games went out and bought it.
I was not happy to discover that unlike the file that is the demo (and unlockable into the full game by buying online a serial) the dvd box has a forced install of Steam, but fortunately thanks to the Taleworlds official boards, there was a way to enjoy the product i bought without the steam thing wasting my ressources uselessly in the background :
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.p...sg2597527.html
Once i was setup, how much fun i had with that piece of genius game.
And when i think it was originally a husband and wife that coded this awesome masterpiece !
And i only talk about the single player nearly infinitively replayable sandbox, i have not even tried multiplayer as i simply don't care at all about online gaming.
It's been a -very- long time i did not played and been addicted to a videogame that much, since Operation Flashpoint that i play since 2001 and continue to play in fact
I hope it will gain much more popularity that it seems to have, as unlike all the useless piece of fast food that are called 99,99% of the games nowadays, this is complete quality and so fun and replayable that it is enjoyable for years to come.
If there is a game nowadays that deserve to be bought by everyone to support good developers, this is the one.
My favorite mod is Diplomacy, it does not modifiy the visuals or the original setup, but it adds some features that i can't play without after having tried it.