Still one of the best RPGs ever made and in my top 3 games of all time, and one of very few games I can keep coming back to, mostly thanks to the amazing modding community.
The base game is fantastic in its own right, but it layed the framework for some of the best overhaul mods ever created, with each potentially giving hundreds of hours of content in both single- and multiplayer.

Whether Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Warhammer, Lord of the Rings, several original Fantasy Settings and Worlds, Historical Medieval, Norse, Chinese, Japanese, Roman era adaptions... There's a complete overhaul for almost every setting, each with its own tailored Factions, Music, Maps, Troop Trees, Items, Characters, Politics, Quests and Events...all on top of one simple concept: Work your way up from nothing to however far your ambitions (and time) take you.

To give you an idea of the scope of this game, these are just a few things you can do:
- Go the classic route and pledge yourself to any faction, fight skirmishes, siege castles and eventually get rewarded with your own castles, villages and towns to build and defend.
- Build your renown and treasury by winning tournaments across the realms, marry into a noble family, become a knight Paragon
- Become a great khan and take over the world with an army of horse-archers
- Become a bandit and raid caravans, raze villages, ambush Lords and ransom them, or take their lands, too, and put them in their own prison towers.
- Create your custom knighthood order and terrorize the world as a cult of naked, hammer-wielding maniacs
- Slay heretics as a crusader
- Defend Minas Tirith in hour-long battles against thousands of Enemies (in Multiplayer, too)
- Unite Westeros or create your own faction and paint the map in your colours
- Create your own faction/kingdom/empire, convince or force other lords to join your cause and conquer.
- Hold off waves and hordes of Zulus, Zombies, Assassins, Persians, Crusaders, Peasants, the Armies of Mordor, Demons and Mumakils as an Uruk, Roman Legionnaire, Chaos Warrior, Space Marine, Rivendell Elf, Zombie Apocalypse Survivor or Spartan... in Multiplayer that is still active to this day (Though playercount varies)

Nothing comes close to the amount of content you can squeeze out of this apart from maybe Paradox games. And all it took is a solid combat system and framework for the community to build on.
Now if only Bannerlords could release before we all die, that would be great :)

Still one of the best RPGs ever made and in my top 3 games of all time, and one of very few games I can keep coming back to, mostly thanks to the amazing modding community. The base game is fantastic in its own right, but it layed the framework for some of the best overhaul mods ever created, with each potentially giving hundreds of hours of content in both single- and multiplayer. Whether Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Warhammer, Lord of the Rings, several original Fantasy Settings and Worlds, Historical Medieval, Norse, Chinese, Japanese, Roman era adaptions... There's a complete overhaul for almost every setting, each with its own tailored Factions, Music, Maps, Troop Trees, Items, Characters, Politics, Quests and Events...all on top of one simple concept: Work your way up from nothing to however far your ambitions (and time) take you. To give you an idea of the scope of this game, these are just a few things you can do: - Go the classic route and pledge yourself to any faction, fight skirmishes, siege castles and eventually get rewarded with your own castles, villages and towns to build and defend. - Build your renown and treasury by winning tournaments across the realms, marry into a noble family, become a knight Paragon - Become a great khan and take over the world with an army of horse-archers - Become a bandit and raid caravans, raze villages, ambush Lords and ransom them, or take their lands, too, and put them in their own prison towers. - Create your custom knighthood order and terrorize the world as a cult of naked, hammer-wielding maniacs - Slay heretics as a crusader - Defend Minas Tirith in hour-long battles against thousands of Enemies (in Multiplayer, too) - Unite Westeros or create your own faction and paint the map in your colours - Create your own faction/kingdom/empire, convince or force other lords to join your cause and conquer. - Hold off waves and hordes of Zulus, Zombies, Assassins, Persians, Crusaders, Peasants, the Armies of Mordor, Demons and Mumakils as an Uruk, Roman Legionnaire, Chaos Warrior, Space Marine, Rivendell Elf, Zombie Apocalypse Survivor or Spartan... in Multiplayer that is still active to this day (Though playercount varies) Nothing comes close to the amount of content you can squeeze out of this apart from maybe Paradox games. And all it took is a solid combat system and framework for the community to build on. Now if only Bannerlords could release before we all die, that would be great :)