This is an average game with core gameplay problems masquerading as a fantastic title. I owned it and sold it.
The entire mechanic as the king is making up a force of players, romping around the map and clearing obstacles and taking down enemies. The problem is that where I call it core broken, is you can not by any means manage your party. You can either call in, line em up, or dismiss and they scatter fast in every direction. This sucks when you're in a spot where you need to get to something to cut a log down, but then have guys attack as your cutters can't attack and your attackers can't cut. If you mix a party 1/2 of them likely will with the fight end up dead. The only way around it is ugly tedious walking way too many times up the same path to clear, return, kill, return, clear, return...wash rinse repeat. Had they allowed you to say 'hey you jerks stand over here' and 'you guys kill that bastard' then it would have been fantastic.
I'd avoid it unless you have a high tolerance for a situation like I wrote up.