Mount & Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest Reforged Edition

But mostly just awful: a glorified mod with poor textures and high overhead, which will eat your memory and reward you with bugs, inconsistent textures and jerky gameplay. Learn from my mistake. Do not fall for the lure of Viking-ness. Stick to Warband and play as a Nord. It's still the best option out there.

Good game. I like this game. It`s very opened ended allowing you to explore a bit of Europe and Britain as a Viking or even escaped slave. LOTS of options (with one caveat, see below). You can explore or start banding togther a small army, speak to villagers to do odd jobs or even try to reach for the crown. The villages are more spread out and there are more varieties of people. The graphics is good and mostly functional. You can even have a poet dog. Dogs look weird, the Devs they need to work on their animation. Battles are still great, plus horse riding and now you can even battle on ships. It can be quite hard. My only disapointment is you cannot play a dark-skinned character. You can be female even with the same strengths as a man, but for some reason black men need not apply. This is very unusual for a Warband game and seeing as I like to play as a Black man is a thumbs down for me in immersion. I will amend this if it changes.

I bought this game for Mac, but for now is unplayable, the characters are invisible, i hope this bug and others will be fixed soon

WARNING :Please don't buy this total scam. I once played a quite early version of the Brythenwalda mod for Mount and Blade Warband and since they put the mod-teams name on this product, I expected this to be a version of the mod, improved by the teamwork of a mod team and the original developer. You can't be more wrong. This product is just made to rip some money out of us stupid fans of the M&B series. They milk me like a cow, and for that I more and more hate this scum. Dare them fucking up M&B 2. The game is totally broken and unplayable. I could list all the bugs and technical issues, but others already did that and the steam reviews are a good source too. If you want to play Mount and Blade in that area and time-period, get the newest version of the original Brytenwalda mod (e.g. the "refined" edition avaliable on the steam workshop for Warband) and have a shitload of fun with it. Nearly every aspect of this product is found in the Mod but less buggy, plus some features not even touched by the product. Further it's a mod for Warband, so you can add more smaller warband mods with little afford. Many of you guys accept the flaws of this game. Most of the time because of ignorance (you don't know the mod or the original M&B and don't bother to research) and a lack of feeling for the relation between price and quality of a game. ALL of the features in this game which are not buggy, are features from the M&B core game. Even the new ones (like Naval-Battles) are included in some mods and work without bugs. Therefore you buy the same bunch of data again. Thats okay if there is a iteration of that core mechanic or (more likely for a DLC) a spezialisation in a specific direction. If the base-product is developed as open for modders as M&B is, DLCs and new official versions HAVE to deliver something the mods lack. This could be new features, items, etc. and it HAVE TO BE production quality ! So don't tell me I'm whiny. You're just too ignorant to get it.

Awful- no balance in weapons, bugs everywhere clearly evident from even basic play testing, just an awful product that was advertised and released as a 'full product' not something on par with very early access. Shame on Talewords and the makes of this mod. I want a refund!