I bought this game thinking it would expand on the warband engine, only to find out it should really be under M&B, not Warband, like Mavkiel said. I guess it could be an average game with patches, but my faith in TW has wavered due to this being a product of an outside studio and then deciding it was good enough to sell wolrdwide. I have played sandbox games with a story, historical accuracy, or realism, sometimes all, and this falls short. You can do worse than this game, but you can do a lot better for the same price or more.