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Hands-on preview: Bethesda's BattleCry is an arcadey (and free) multiplayer swordfest |
May 28, 2014
What do you call a sword that's also a shield?
No, it's not the set-up to a terrible joke. It's a legitimate question I have after playing a few rounds of BattleCry, the debut game from Bethesda subsidiary BattleCry studios.
See, in BattleCry's world gunpowder was outlawed early in the twentieth century after a deadly world war. But humanity being a reckless animal hellbent on its own extinction, we came up with even deadlier versions of medieval-era weaponry. Like a sword that transforms into a shield at will. We really are monsters.Mindless action
Not that BattleCry moralizes your killer instinct. There isn't time.
There's been quite a land-grab lately in the "multiplayer-only melee combat" genre. On the relatively realistic side of the spectrum we have Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and War of the Roses. Progressing more to the arcade end of things we have the recently released War of the Vikings.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2212380/hands-on-preview-bethesdas-battlecry-is-an-arcadey-and-free-multiplayer-swordfest.html#tk.rss_all
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