About Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword is a standalone expansion for the Mount & Blade series, developed and published by TaleWorlds Entertainment and released on 3 May 2011. It moves the series' famous mounted combat into seventeenth-century Eastern Europe, a turbulent era of Cossack uprisings, Polish-Lithuanian hussars, Muscovite armies, Swedish soldiers and the Crimean Khanate. The story draws on the cult novel With Fire and Sword by Nobel Prize-winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz, and the setting was carefully researched to give every army and town a believable historical identity.
The game is an open sandbox. You begin as a lone adventurer with a horse and a few coins, then choose your allies and enemies, which provinces to conquer, which castles to besiege and which quests to accept. Three main story-driven quest lines open once you become known in a faction, and multiple endings make each campaign different. Political intrigue, colourful factions and additional quest types give the land plenty of adventure between the large battles.
Combat builds on the highly regarded physics-based system of the earlier games, where speed, angle and timing decide every blow. Firearms change the battlefield: pistols, muskets and grenades sit beside sabres and lances, and pistols can even be used as sidearms in close combat. You can fully customise your army, equipping each soldier with weapons and armour, recruit mercenaries, and choose new siege options before attacking a town or castle.
Multiplayer adds ferocious online battles that pit old weapons against the rising power of gunpowder, including the original Captain mode, in which each player commands a small squad of bots. New maps support team deathmatch and other modes. The game contains realistic violence with blood and is rated 16 (Germany USK 12, PEGI 16).
Key Features
- Open sandbox – Choose allies and enemies.
- 17th-century setting – Based on Sienkiewicz.
- Firearms – Pistols, muskets, grenades.
- Mounted combat – Physics-based melee.
- Custom armies – Outfit every soldier.
- Sieges – New siege options.
- Multiple endings – Three story lines.
- Captain mode – Online squad battles.
PC Version and Compatibility
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword runs on Windows XP, Vista or 7 and later. The minimum is a 2.1 GHz processor, 1.2 GB of RAM, a 128 MB graphics card, DirectX 9.0c and 900 MB of free space. The interface is available in English, French, Spanish, German, Turkish, Polish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Czech and Japanese.
Global Activation & What You Receive
This Steam key unlocks the full game Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword and can be activated in any country. In the Steam client choose Games → Activate a Product on Steam, enter the code and the game is added to your library.
Why Buy This Game?
Why buy it? It offers a rare combination of freedom and visceral combat in an unusual historical setting. Lead your own band from a single horse to a full army, storm fortresses and decide the fate of Eastern Europe, all at a modest hardware cost.
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