You know what feels great on a Saturday night? Leaping off a castle wall with five compatriots, double-tapping a button that makes your character scream his head off and listening to everyone around you follow suit. You really don’t have to wait long to be back on the frontlines hacking arms off of your enemies.Chivalry 2 (PlayStation 5): Roleplay potential and smooth medieval combat make it great
On the server side, the reviewer has not experienced any major issues with latency or connectivity, and access to games is snappy.
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Overall, it looks excellent on the Series X and seems to take advantage of the console’s significant horsepower. Thankfully, most players keep their helmets on and the only time you are likely to see a bare face is in the few moments before your mace caves it in. Whilst armour looks awesome, faces look like deformed playdough. The only visual misstep in Chivalry 2 is undoubtedly the faces. The maps are particularly visually pleasing, and there is enough aesthetic variance in the seven maps to keep players from tiring of the visual presentation. If there are framerate drops or frame time inconsistencies, you would be hard-pressed to notice them on an Xbox Series X. Without directly testing the framerate, the game seems solidly locked to 60 fps. The maps, weapons, and armour all have a realistic material quality to them, and the overall image presentation is sharp. Whilst the reviewer cannot comment on the game’s technical performance on other systems, what can be said is that this game runs smoothly and looks gorgeous while doing it. This game was played and reviewed exclusively on an Xbox Series X console.
It strikes a great balance between accessibility and skill, which is sure to help with the longevity of the game’s player-base. Mordhau is often criticised for the stark learning curve of its combat, but this is not the case with Chivalry 2. The game is not overly intimidating, and whilst seasoned, skilled players will always pull off impressive kill streaks and be able to skilfully handle multiple enemies alone, new players, or those who are simply not very good, can contribute to their teams and score kills in the midst of chaotic melees. However, unlike Mordhau, the amount of skill needed to pick up Chivalry 2’s combat is fairly low. 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.
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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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