The game itself is simply fantastic...c'mon guys, it is Warband all in all! Plus it covers one of the most interesting events in the history of central/eastern Europe. Collapse of poish-lithuanian commonwealth, Swedish deluge, Tsars, the rise of Cossacs... plus it has pretty cool bonus - 3 storylines for each eastern european faction. So what is wrong? Bugs, bugs, bugs...! Bugs everywhere, and what's awful, many of them simply don't let you finish the game! Try to imagine spending tons of hours, following the storyline, expanding the kingdom and...crash! Some wild bug in the storyline appears and as a result - dead point. Or 'minor things' like enemy kingdom still resists even if they don't have any towns nor castles. Glitches during battlefield is just a piece of cake here, but the bugs that cannot let you finish the game...sometimes even backup save games will not help. If you have mild gaming OCD, you love to complete the game and feel that kind of satisfaction of completing sth from A to Z, than avoid this game. And I tried to play finish this at least...5 times?6? Twice with commonwealth, Muscovites, Cossacs... Maybe it is great for multiplayer but for single player gamers, like me, it is simply unplayable. Even after so many years after the release and fixing some bugs. Shame!
For me it was extremely boring, maybe because I'm more into older games (well, not so old maybe, Im PSX, PS2 generation). Very, very schematic, and shallow game. Boring main character, boring other characters, boring land, being evil in this game is so... washed. Zero emotions. Immersion= 0. Maps looks okay until you realise that they are built more like a labirynth (invisibles walls everywhere). I don't even like the graphics...it's not about the number of polygons but about the design. Pretty cheesy for me. Good points? Hm, sense of humour is pretty fine...and that's all. For me - wasted money. I'm going back to Warband or Arcanum...
