Well, I have to say that this review by Jamie Sefton is possibly the worst and most inaccurate review I've ever come across for a piece of software. So bad in fact, that I took the trouble to register with this site so that I could post a comment about it, as I felt such an innovative and impressive game as Mount and Blade deserved the effort of coming to its defence, particularly when maligned by such reviewing ineptitude. And in case you are curious, I spent well over ten years writing for a daily newspaper as my job in the past, so if you think I'm not qualified to comment on how appalling your writing and reviewings skills are Jamie, then you're wrong on that score too.

Why is this review so bad? Well, in the first place it is glaringly obvious that the reviewer has spent very little time with the game, as evidenced by the poor appraisal of the combat system in Mount and Blade, an approach which belies its simplicity to prove one of the most precise and rewarding combat systems to have graced an FPS in a long time, where genuine skill and tactics play a significant role.

As if this were not bad enough in the 'review', there is no mention of the fact that it really has no similar competitor at present covering the genre and approach to a game on the subject material, making it one of the few rather original games currently available, which is certainly worth noting in an industry where innovative games are to be savoured when they occasionally show up.

Then we have no mention of the open structure of the game which makes modding it easily possible, nor any mention of the wealth of mods already available from a game which featured a uniquely inclusive open beta as it grew, giving it a large and indeed supportive user base of active modders on the developer's forum even on day one of the game's release.

Also no mention of the fact that the graphics, while not the most gleaming one has ever seen, are entirely adequate for the game, even impressive when one considers the complexity and size of the battles possible with no slow down. Worse, there is no mention of the scaleability of said battles and graphics, a feature that make M&B playable on even modest computers, and indeed laptops without a dedicated graphics card.

I could go on, but frankly, I think most people will get the point, that being that if you want this site to have any credibility at all, you will politely tell Jamie that his clearly inept services as a reviewer are no longer required.