For good and janky ill, Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare hews very close to the design TaleWorlds came up with in Mount & Blade well over a decade ago. It puts you in a fictional modern land of warring factions, free to wander about on an overland map with a few dozen towns, lots of armies and bandits and so on. You can do what you like but really it’s just a framework for lots of pitched battles as you hire and direct a band of soldiers to fire their guns at whoever you feel like.

But that’s not important. What’s important is that unlike M&B, it lets you manually equip all of your lackeys. And you can make them look cool as hell. Wars are not won on the battlefield. They are won in the wardrobe.

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I’ve been playing Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare over lunch for the last few days, in preparation for its full release. That moment is due tonight.

Normally here I’d tell you what sort of game it is, but there’s only one way to say this: It’s Mount & Blade as a first-person shooter.

Where has this been>?

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