Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

I'm rather enamoured by the unique flavour of online combat presented by Chivalry. It's fresh and fun, and like the very best games is easy to get into yet incredibly hard to master. I've honestly not had this much competitive online joy since Battlefield 3, and to think a $25 indie title can provide a level of enjoyment up there with a $100 million game like Battlefield is testimony to the skill of the developer.

Every hit, parry and block feels real. The sound, the knockback, the weight of the weapon -- it all goes towards making duels seem like a struggle.

An immersive, interesting and addictive take on the competitive multiplayer FPS. Go into this one swinging. [Dec 2012, p.72]

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is up to a better start than War of the Roses. Torn Banner Studios have shunned any historical accuracy or character editing options, but their fighting system is easier to learn, while at the same time offering a surprising amount of depth. Dynamic rather than authentic, these skirmishes are much easier to enjoy.

It offers loads of fun and a simple but deep at the same time fighting system. Still far from perfect, but it could get closer to it with a few patches or updates.

A multiplayer experience that offers a realistic point of view of the Medieval melee battles. It's not fit for everyone, but if you get past the glitches and the high difficulty curve, you'll find an enjoyable and addictive game.

Compared to the similar War of the Roses you get tighter controls and more game modes, but it lacks in entertainment value.

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Very fun FPS multiplayer sword play at start, but after some time I started to notice that, in most servers, there're players that seem to take advantage of some movement glitch or are just using cheats, making them almost impossible to kill. This took all the fun of the game.

Juego muy entretenido para jugar una partida de vez en cuando o una pequeña viciada con amigos. Destaca en lo más importante para este tipo de género, que es en el puro gameplay, el manejo de los personajes, el de las armas en todas sus variedades y el trabajo hecho en los escenarios es muy destacable en todos sus aspectos. Si este juego hubiese existido tal cual hace muchos años atrás sería de 10, sin embargo considero que a día de hoy un juego online tiene que ir mucho más allá del propio gameplay, y aquí es donde el título no aporta absolutamente nada. Solo tiene una tienda mediocre de skins y por destacar también un tutorial decente. Fin, ni sistemas de eventos, un sistema de amigos/grupos con muchos bugs y que empeora la experiencia... No hay rankings de ningún tipo. Echo de menos algún ranking o sistema que te genere ese deseo de mejorar y jugar más, no hay nada de esto. Si buscas un juego con el que pasar el rato, recomendadísimo. Si te encantan los counter strike pero te gustan las espadas, pues es un 10 obviamente. Si no, pues no te va a gustar el juego. Ah, y a destacar la no censura, muy buen sistema de sangre, desmembramientos etc...

Neither fun or enjoyable, this is a huge step back from the original mod Age of Chivalry in almost every way. Everything is simplified and restricted which seems to be the trend these days unfortunately.

This game has a lot of great things going for it, which is why it's a shame that it's challenges overshadow many of those. Combat system requires finesse and offers a decent array of weaponry but is glitchy and often out of sink with the picture. The maps are great but offer unseen traps where characters get stuck on scenery. The UI could use some work, most notably the Find Server screen, which is perhaps the glitchiest thing of all. If you can get the game to work you have a tremendous wealth of multiplayer combat, most of which will be spent fending off your own team mates. This game is packed with team killing. I want to love this game, and I play it over and over again in the hopes that just once I'll leave a session happy. They only tend to end in frustration, however.