Mount and Blade...would you recommend it?

So Mount and Blade is on sale. To be honest I'm not sure what kind of game it is. Steam says it's an RPG, but according to the IGN review it's a strategy/rpg/action hybrid. It's $5 for the orginial or $12 for the complete pack and I would probably go with the complete based on if you guys (and gals?) recommend it.

Get Warband thats the best of the 3.

Or get em all if you wanan spend a bit more.

So just get Warband?

Warband is awesome I play it all the time.

I bought the entire collection a while back and regretted it. I really didn't like it all that much - game was much too rough around the edges for me.

I love Warband!

I get lost in the battles! :P

Get warband and then the crpg mod, its a hell of a lot of fun.

Warband is definately the best of the three. Although it does look dated compared with the Crysis and MWs out there, I have had hours of fun with it. Plenty of mods out there to give the game a whole new twist. The original Mount and Blade has perhaps a better fighting mechanism, although I had no problem with the Warband one. Fire and sword is a step back unfortunately, fun to see lines of your men firing their muskets, but it can't beat rushing in full gallop with your sword aloft and coming out victorious.