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Mount & Blade

Mount & Blade is an immersive medieval action/tactics game taking place in a fictitious land named Calradia. Enriched with RPG elements, Mount & Blade offers a captivating environment, beautifully detailed…

65 30 September 2008

Mount & Blade is an adventure developed by Taleworlds, released 30 September 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 45 hrs to finish.

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What Mount & Blade is

Mount & Blade is an adventure game developed by Taleworlds and released in 2008. It was published by Paradox Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mount & Blade is a 2008 medieval action role-playing game for Windows, developed by Turkish company TaleWorlds Entertainment, and published by Swedish company Paradox Interactive. In the game, the player controls a customized character to battle, trade, and manage a fief in the medieval land of Calradia. The game was developed by Armağan Yavuz and his wife İpek Yavuz, the founders of TaleWorlds Entertainment. The game was fully released on September 16, 2008, though alpha versions of the game were available prior to the full release.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Mount & Blade holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 69, across 132 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 45 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 96 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 512 MB of RAM and Graphics card with at least 64 MB memory. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

Mount & Blade launched on 30 September 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut and World of Goo. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, World of Goo.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Mount & Blade — frequently asked questions

When did Mount & Blade come out?
Mount & Blade was released on 30 September 2008 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Mount & Blade?
At minimum, Mount & Blade needs 512 MB of RAM, Graphics card with at least 64 MB memory graphics, 700 MB of hard disk space. of storage.
How long does it take to beat Mount & Blade?
The main story of Mount & Blade takes around 45 hrs, or 96 hrs for 100% completion.
How many GB is Mount & Blade?
The PC version needs about 0.7 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("700 MB of hard disk space."). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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