As someone who played the first Chivalry, and the recent and comparable Mordhau (2019), the reviewer is competent at these kinds of games. This is one of Chivalry’s greatest strengths. Advanced players will undoubtedly learn how to maximise the reach of poleaxes or the speed of falchions, but for the average player, you can have plenty of fun with any weapon. If you know how to use one weapon, you know how to use them all. These controls are consistent across the melee weapons available, with only slight variance in how you use each weapon. After being given a brief, and fairly effective tutorial, the player knows how to swing, stab, dodge, throw, shoot, and parry. The meat of this game is obviously the combat. Too much exposition here would muddy the purity of the experience. It never feels like you are waiting for fun. The brevity of the storytelling benefits the game, facilitating very short periods between actual gameplay. In short, two people want to be king, (original I know) and you are the fodder for their ambitions. There is a vague premise contextualising the action, providing a loose frame to your heroic and often hilariously violent deeds, but it is so skeletal that it is essentially irrelevant. As with its predecessor, there are two factions duking it out, the Mason Order (the red team) and the Agathian forces (the blue team). This then explains the entirely fictional setting and factions within the game, and the mix and match nature of available weapons and armours which would have never been seen together on the battlefield. The game captures much of the pop culture surrounding the medieval period, rather than accurately replicating any particular period or region. A multiplayer-only hack and slash action game set in a fictional medieval land with influences from across Christendom, the game does not try too hard to establish itself as anything other than a game about combat. Developed by Torn Banner Studios, a small Canadian developer, Chivalry 2 does not stray too far from the original. Chivalry 2 is the long-awaited sequel to 2012’s Chivalry: Medieval Warfare.
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