Mount and Blade....not quite! If you're expecting more of the same but better, then like me you may be disappointed.
It's like going out to eat your favorite meal...only this time you order it and they changed it up so it doesn't taste quite the same, but the whole reason you ordered it in the first place is because that's what you wanted.
In one word what changes everything is guns. You like charging into a pack of enemies, slashing and hacking people with a nice shiny weapon and glistening armor? Well don't try it because you'll get shot and die. Even though the guns are inaccurate they are still accurate and powerful enough to take you out, and since it doesn't take many shots it kills the fun, the fun of why the game was just mindlessly entertaining at times, a retro feeling to the game.
While I hope they take out guns and improve the mechanics of warband which is an already fundamentally good game this will probably just keep going in this direction. I think they should give the people what they want instead of making them taste something new and different. It just isn't revolutionary, it's something you've done before in another game and just is ultimately disappointing considering what they had going.