Upon playing Mount and Blade there were two older games that immediately sprang to mind, firstly the Cinemaware classic Defender Of The Crown and secondly the much more recent Skyrim, but for totally different reasons.
It turns out that the game was first released on Steam in 2010, and boy does it show! To say Mount and Blade is dog ugly is an understatement, I don’t think I would be at all off in saying that it looks like a PlayStation 2 game! I was also interested to read that this game became somewhat of a cult classic, and despite its problems I can see why, so I shall endeavour to explain further. As huge and involving as Mount and Blade is, it’s a title that I made some very quick judgements on, which held strong in reflection when I did eventually read up on it. I picked up Mount and Blade without any prior knowledge of its history or where it had come from, which is often good as it allows you to form opinions on a game without being swayed by other factors.
