Background details barely show up at all, the people look two generations removed from Gumby, and the weavers couldn't even keep the lines on the border straight.
The sandbox-style RPG Mount & Blade: Warband is perhaps best compared to a work like the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot long strip of cloth in northern France detailing one of the landmark events of the European Middle Ages. Graphics aren’t everything - but they’re something.