Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 972 Ratings

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  1. Necrotaur
    Dec 23, 2012
    4
    I like the concept, I really do, but the controls are clunky, the hit detection is terrible, and most matches wind up being a melee of people swinging wildly, killing as many of their own team as the enemy. The graphics and atmosphere are good for an indie game, but that's really all I can praise it for.
  2. Aonien
    Mar 11, 2013
    4
    The worst problem I have with this game is that it is far too glitchy. Hit detection is horrible, blocking doesn't work sometimes, and when you hit an enemy that is attacking, it may or may not cancel his attack, even though it's supposed to. Some of the missions are unfair as one of the teams spawn at the end of the map while the other spawns right next to the objective. Spamming rightThe worst problem I have with this game is that it is far too glitchy. Hit detection is horrible, blocking doesn't work sometimes, and when you hit an enemy that is attacking, it may or may not cancel his attack, even though it's supposed to. Some of the missions are unfair as one of the teams spawn at the end of the map while the other spawns right next to the objective. Spamming right mouse button to block when being attacked is a common reaction, however if you press it more than one time during any part of your block, you will immediately block right after that. Some weapons are unbalanced, but that's to be expected of any game. I'm not saying the whole game is bad, though. The soundtrack is one of the best I've ever heard, better than the music that large companies make. The voice acting is handled professionally, and the missions are creative and fun like blowing up ships or breaking down medieval gates. The graphics are beautiful, depending on your settings, however the controls could be improved a little bit. Since this game is still in beta, I'll leave this 4 right here, but who knows what the future holds for this game?… Expand
  3. DuncanIdahoTPF
    Jan 25, 2013
    4
    The game suffers from the same problems as the free source mod plus a few more. The animations of weapons swung are off from what is actually connecting. You will see someone pull back to take a swing and take damage the same instance before their swing or thrust displays as connecting. Unlike the free mod, you will get stuck on stationary objects and the movement in the game doesn'tThe game suffers from the same problems as the free source mod plus a few more. The animations of weapons swung are off from what is actually connecting. You will see someone pull back to take a swing and take damage the same instance before their swing or thrust displays as connecting. Unlike the free mod, you will get stuck on stationary objects and the movement in the game doesn't compensate for this at all.

    Plus there is a whole host of bugs including throw-able weapons 'breaking' so they don't won't work anymore. I also experienced the chat system breaking.

    This isn't really the game or the company's fault, but the game attracts a lot of children who haven't hit puberty yet, so get ready for squeaky voices over the built in voice chat.    … Expand
  4. Timber
    Jan 25, 2013
    4
    I play the chivalry mod and that is quite great. This new game based on the unreal engine is choppy even with all the settings on minimum has terrible gameplay (and I play UT3 without problems). I dont know what else to say, it's just much worse than any medieval fps I played and I played them all... the movement and action are not responsive.
  5. Average_Gamer
    Oct 23, 2012
    4
    This game is moderately fun to play, for a little while. After taking a closer look at the game, you will find just how bad the character animations really are. The combatants run like they are intoxicated with a football stuck in their backside, and the attacks are very clunky. This is an Indie game, and you can tell. I would have felt comfortable paying $10, not $25. This game is not asThis game is moderately fun to play, for a little while. After taking a closer look at the game, you will find just how bad the character animations really are. The combatants run like they are intoxicated with a football stuck in their backside, and the attacks are very clunky. This is an Indie game, and you can tell. I would have felt comfortable paying $10, not $25. This game is not as good as Warband or War of the Roses, and any of these fanboys who say otherwise and rip this review are kidding themselves. The large maps with nice scenery help the overall look of the game, but the awful character animations are this game's undoing.… Expand
  6. imtnt
    Nov 19, 2012
    4
    I simply cannot believe this game has any good ratings at all. The combat is choppy and completely non-fluid, internet play is laggy, controls are worthless, cheesy soundtrack (at times), are just some of the many things horrible wrong here. While I will give it points for a unique concept I can't like it for much else.
  7. calxllum
    Jan 26, 2013
    4
    Personally I was caught up in the "This game is great" nonsense. Luckily I didn't spend much on it because it was on sale but really. It's not that great, with a bunch of friends it can be fun, but it's buggy as hell. The health system doesn't make sense, sure the head does more damage, legs less. Makes sense. But it's half realistic combat half not. The game just doesn't know what itPersonally I was caught up in the "This game is great" nonsense. Luckily I didn't spend much on it because it was on sale but really. It's not that great, with a bunch of friends it can be fun, but it's buggy as hell. The health system doesn't make sense, sure the head does more damage, legs less. Makes sense. But it's half realistic combat half not. The game just doesn't know what it wants to be. Game needs a lot of polish to be good. If you want some good combat try out "War of The Roses" It has very fluid combat.… Expand
  8. Luthtar
    Dec 8, 2012
    4
    This game was on my watch list ever since I saw some footage of it. But it failed to deliver on most of the grounds promised. It is a poor game, and honestly, War of the Roses beats it in almost every aspect.

    Pros: Gore and Brutality are very high in Chivalry, adding a sense of realism and depth to the game. Ambiance: Battle cries echo the battlefield, screams of the dying are    This game was on my watch list ever since I saw some footage of it. But it failed to deliver on most of the grounds promised. It is a poor game, and honestly, War of the Roses beats it in almost every aspect.

    Pros:
    Gore and Brutality are very high in Chivalry, adding a sense of realism and depth to the game.
    Ambiance: Battle cries echo the battlefield, screams of the dying are overwhelming, adding realism to the game.
    Game Modes: Chivalry posesses a lot of game modes. This adds variety to your playing.

    Cons:
    Slow, Unresponsive melee combat
    Terrible hitboxes
    Glaring imbalances
    Terrible archery system
    It doesn't matter if you use a piercing, blunt, or slashing weapon, the penetrate armor all the same.
    Servers rotate game modes every game, so you have to leave and rejoin another server if you want to keep playing your favorite game mode.
    Lastly, the in-game class selection is TERRIBLE. You have to re-select your weapons every time you want to change a class. This gets annoying very quickly.

    Final verdict: 4/10
    I would buy it for $5, but any more than that, it is simply not worth it.    … Expand
  9. AeRoTR
    Dec 25, 2012
    4
    This is not a game. This is some kind of mod or something. All you do is to enter many servers online, start choping heads and limbs, and also get chopped many times. What is the idea behind this? I play 1 hour and next day? Why would I play again? There is no progression, you dont develop a character, you unlock nothing, and play for nothing. I m sorry guys, I go spend my time at least inThis is not a game. This is some kind of mod or something. All you do is to enter many servers online, start choping heads and limbs, and also get chopped many times. What is the idea behind this? I play 1 hour and next day? Why would I play again? There is no progression, you dont develop a character, you unlock nothing, and play for nothing. I m sorry guys, I go spend my time at least in Warband, enjoy single and if I want multi, I play multi.

    For me this game is awfull and I regret buying this game. I do not understand youngsters writing so many positive reviews about this game. Graphics are okay, sound are good but gameplay is bad, this is not a Gladiator, this not William Wallace, this is many mad man with swords and shields running around like mad chickens.    … Expand
  10. EasternEagle5
    Jan 14, 2013
    4
    I really wanted to like this game. It has all the traits that make for a great hack and slasher, but the end result falls so sadly short. I like a lot of the ideas behind it, but they're executed so poor at times that I feel as if I'm not even playing a finished game. The game seems to encourage spamming rather than tactics, and there are several exploitable weapons that cannot be beaten,I really wanted to like this game. It has all the traits that make for a great hack and slasher, but the end result falls so sadly short. I like a lot of the ideas behind it, but they're executed so poor at times that I feel as if I'm not even playing a finished game. The game seems to encourage spamming rather than tactics, and there are several exploitable weapons that cannot be beaten, not to mention the mass unbalance with the classes. This leads to the game getting extremely frustrating as enemies beat you using the cheapest tactics, rather than experiment with new ones and have fun. At 25 dollars, this is a better frustration software than a game, much to my disappointment..… Expand
  11. Worufu
    Apr 1, 2013
    4
    I tried to like this game. I really, really tried, but I just can't. I love the setting, love the gore, the simple yet allowing finesse fighting system. But the hit detection and block detection completely SUCK MONKEY BOTTOM. And that's the most important thing in the game! Many times my spear thrusts were going through an opponents chest without scratching him when he doesn't have aI tried to like this game. I really, really tried, but I just can't. I love the setting, love the gore, the simple yet allowing finesse fighting system. But the hit detection and block detection completely SUCK MONKEY BOTTOM. And that's the most important thing in the game! Many times my spear thrusts were going through an opponents chest without scratching him when he doesn't have a single problem beheading me. Or blocking enemy's attack while doing as you're supposed to, aiming at the enemy's weapon tip. And yet my head flies somewhere into the bushes. And it happens all. The. Time. It is extremely frustrating when you're sitting on the edge of your seat, trying to get that hit in with a supposedly long-range swing but nope, you gonna get absolutely mutilated. It is very hard to understand your weapon's range, as on numerous occasions it seems like it should connect, yet it doesn't for some reason. Other than that the gameplay is extremely hectic, lacks any tactic or strategy (gogogo in group zerg rush rush rush hurr durr kekeke), feels lacking. I find it a waste of money...yet I keep returning to the game, hoping that maybe it's my skill or ping or planet alignment. But nope, each time it ends up with unexplainable hitbox missess and teabagging of my bloodied corpse. Yay. Do not buy, I guess.
    Graphics are nice, though.    … Expand
  12. mobridomble
    Jul 8, 2013
    4
    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,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.    … Expand
  13. vortex10
    Nov 8, 2013
    4
    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.
  14. Taalen
    Nov 15, 2012
    3
    Poor, simplified Mount&Blade clone. Does nothing better than its role model. If you're interested in the subject, buy M&B instead. If you already have it, don't waste your money on Chivalry. You'll get nothing out of it.
  15. DJ_Kaas
    Apr 24, 2018
    3
    The game is quite fun, some of the time... The learning curve is quite steep, gameplay is somewhat laggy, shields and parry don't work all the time. veteran playerbase use exploits. So if you are new, you will probably hate yourself and this game before you hit level 25. I guess it is the forth time I uninstall this game. One positive thing I want to highlight, is the ingame-voices, theyThe game is quite fun, some of the time... The learning curve is quite steep, gameplay is somewhat laggy, shields and parry don't work all the time. veteran playerbase use exploits. So if you are new, you will probably hate yourself and this game before you hit level 25. I guess it is the forth time I uninstall this game. One positive thing I want to highlight, is the ingame-voices, they are so funny, I could nearly install the game, just to hear a agatha knight scream for help… Expand
  16. MessengerX
    Jul 20, 2013
    3
    Buggy tutorial immediately put me in a bad mood towards this game. I gave them a couple of points for having an innovative "swing" system. It's better than Elder Scrolls attack method. Unfortunately this is literally a hack and slash game. A couple of hits and you die. Should have gone fantasy, because realism sucks in this game.

    They are trying to create something akin to MMO shooters,    Buggy tutorial immediately put me in a bad mood towards this game. I gave them a couple of points for having an innovative "swing" system. It's better than Elder Scrolls attack method. Unfortunately this is literally a hack and slash game. A couple of hits and you die. Should have gone fantasy, because realism sucks in this game.

    They are trying to create something akin to MMO shooters, but the need to be in close combat at all times just means that if you are outnumbered, you will die. You can only defend against one attack at a time, basically, so two or more attackers will kill you quick. Respawn is similar to other shooters, it just depends on when you die and where the counter was at at the time. Then there is a long boring run back to the battle. Why this sucks is because at least in Red Orchestra or COD you fight from a ranged distance. This is also why games like Elder Scrolls don't thrust you into endless waves of creatures attacking all at once. At least in fantasy games you have the benefit of magic for defense and offense as well.

    The game also plays in a windowed mode. This wasn't exactly a deal breaker for me, but it was annoying. The animations were okay, but timing blocks, which is a major part of this game, is sluggish at times. Basically this is all in the mouse. Your movement is still WASD, but everything else uses all your mouse buttons. If you don't have five mouse buttons, do not even try.

    I bought this on sale at Steam for $10 and I would really like to demand my money back. Like a few other reviewers I was surprised at how high this game scored. My guess is 90% of these reviews came within the initial purchase and few hours of play with the hope that it would get better. Leveling doesn't do much for you but get you new weapons to swing with. It gets very monotonous after awhile, click 1, click 2, block, click 3, click 1, block.... Oh yeah and die like every thirty or forty seconds.

    This game might be better with a group of players who are all on headsets and communicating, but all I saw was a bunch of people running around swinging at everything, including their teammates. Like many shooters with friendly fire, count on some moron constantly running in front of your swings/shots as well. As a 4-5 layer co-op effort, this game could have been awesome. But thirty fighting each other in very close quarters, even outdoors, just becomes a chaotic nightmare. Anyone who thinks this is how medieval wars took place is just flat out crazy. There are no skirmish lines in this game, no waves of archers followed by foot soldiers, and no artillery that I saw (but perhaps that was a different type of battle I didn't play). Instead, they call it realism when thirty people with no coordinated effort charge in and start swinging like crazy. Viking pillagers were more organized than this.

    The biggest problem I saw here is that there is no commander, be it a King or a General of some sort. A good system would have been to have a team leader that controlled who, which of the four characters (Archer, Man-at-Arms, Knight and Skirmisher) and how many would be available in a pool that you have to choose from when you respawn. I saw games where there was little to no archer support, and knights were just wading into battle all alone, instead of being backed up by people with pole arms. Every man for themselves doesn't really work in these types of "slashers," but how do you avoid it if there isn't even the slightest semblance of a command structure. Often you have to defend three objectives, such as your catapults, which seemed to be unused, but there is no way of directing people to spread out appropriately. This may seem like an issue of the people who play it, rather than the game itself, but I can see no real way to remedy this without some sort of command structure. What's really annoying is that if you know anything about strategy in warfare, this game is just going to tick you off with every battle.

    I had eyed this game suspiciously for few months, and after reading the reviews here I bought it on sale. Like I said, I would pitch a fit to get my money back if it were possible. This is basically one of those online games you play in a browser converted into something that looks like a professional game. I think some of these complaints are partly due to the people it attracts. Serious gamers won't be messing around with this. It pales in comparison to games like Red Orchestra and even, dare I say, WOW (which I absolutely hate). If you want to play a pedantic time waster for a few days, pick this up. Otherwise I would spend the money on a single player medieval themed game, or some sort of RTS if you are absolutely jonesing for medieval fighting. The positive reviews of this game are misleading, If they use words like "epic" and "awesomeness" it's probably best to stay away. I certainly learned my lesson about how to read these reviews from now on. It's a lowest common denominator issue IMO.    … Expand
  17. SMBW
    Nov 8, 2019
    3
    As it is impossible to play, the game is just damp, do not recommend. Fun, only the first 15 minutes, and then because of the glitches no desire to play it
  18. Jomanponer
    Jun 8, 2014
    3
    This game has the potential to be a excellent game. I purchased the game in 2012 and played till summer of 2013. When I played in 2012 it was the bomb best game I had played in a while and by far the best community, then at the begging of the summer things were still great but not as good, people were still amazing and fighting system was good feints were balanced along with most weapons,This game has the potential to be a excellent game. I purchased the game in 2012 and played till summer of 2013. When I played in 2012 it was the bomb best game I had played in a while and by far the best community, then at the begging of the summer things were still great but not as good, people were still amazing and fighting system was good feints were balanced along with most weapons, only problem was people had found the reverse swing exploit and man of arms was to op. I think stopped the game for a series I liked even more total war (great series) and stopped playing chivalry. I came back this week and tried to play chivalry as total war required an update and I was too lazy to install it since it was a few gb large. I was devastated by what I saw. The game had gone form a amazing game that was the top of melee fighting games with the best fighting system I have ever seen to the most **** game if our time. The community had gone to something from CoD and the melee system was broken as **** Everyone was spamming feints running in circles and reverse hitting. I found out that the game has since became laggier do to updates involving new customisation and a rush of poor dlc's with ripoff prices. All weapons were unbalanced and op, claymore, poleaxe, great sword, bearded axe were so op it wasn't even funny,all maa weps were pretty op along with vg. Vg and Maa are only classes played anymore it seems and I can tell why, op,op,op,op,op dodge and stab spam from maa, and then super fast, long and maul lvl dmg weps from vg and their reach and speed allows them to run around opponents spam hits and avoid swings by running not to mention reverse overhead spam. the new animations are like stick figures. Also, I do not really get drags, players can now do 0-1mph swings to the toe and explode their opponents faces also counters from maa weps and vg weps are fast as **** and counter look down is just stupidly fast and need to be removes or they need to change it. To sum it up now this game fighting mechanics are crap the fluidity of the game is crap, the community is crap, and it even more crap because beside making all of those things worse nothing has been added I mean yes a few helms and wep paints that have nothing to do with the game, vg and maa must be nerfed to op so op where not fun to play with even let alone play against. The only reason why I did not give a 0 is because I think TB can still make the game better and the fact that a few good, nice players who are fun to fight are still around. To make me give this game a 9-10 which I would have in 2012 they need to change a few things. I would honestly play the game again if they did this: first change the animations and everything involving melee and blocking to who they were in 2012 block are too slow and if you panic or misclick I think you should have the chance to block again, this being said blocks need to be faster to block feints and I think this would be good. I think they need to add upon chivalry, take out the updates that are causing every server to lag, and add new weps, and give option to customise armour, also add more free helms like lvl 50 helm thing and such, and after certain level or achievement I think people should have the choice ti change the armour not just the helm this would be a big improvement. They also need to add new and better maps then the recent ones, however I do like the one where you have to burn a village, and pls pls pls add more maps made for duelling and scrims such as moor. I forgot to mention this but it would be amazing if the reset the animations and melee and block to how it was in 2012 just fix the bugs that there was in the animations in 2012. Where was I ah yes and if those things happened the good community would come back that I had learned to love not this **** community that is arguably worse the CoD. One more thing DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT remove glitches from maps as in ones were u can get to secret places but do not interfere with animations it is the only reason why I still play and it is quite fun to glitch to these secret places and more ppl enjoy it then you might think. Now I know that what I ask will never probably happen and will not be seen, even if it is seen I doubt that TB would listen to any of it since it would take so much effort and time to make these improvements to the game as it is now. I mean its just sad how they keep making it worse and worse each update how could they think it is better then it was in 2012 if you don't believe me just look at the other reviews 10 10 10 in 2012 and go lower as time passes.

    gameplay: 0/10

    classes/weps: 0/10

    community: -10/10

    maps: 3/10

    dlcs: 0/10

    customization: 5/10

    and it used to be all 10s or 9s out of 10 I want the old chiv back :'(    … Expand
  19. coolcrowe
    Nov 15, 2012
    2
    I'm also surprised that this game got good reviews. It's abysmal and thoroughly disappointing. If you want to run around like an idiot clicking furiously and hoping that your hits connect, this is the game for you. It's not "difficult", it's stupid and mostly luck whether you win in a melee or not. Totally buggy, none of the features work like they should. Online players are jerks and seemI'm also surprised that this game got good reviews. It's abysmal and thoroughly disappointing. If you want to run around like an idiot clicking furiously and hoping that your hits connect, this is the game for you. It's not "difficult", it's stupid and mostly luck whether you win in a melee or not. Totally buggy, none of the features work like they should. Online players are jerks and seem to be an average of 12 years old. The only emotion this game causes is frustration. I really don't understand how anyone enjoys it.… Expand
  20. Dethstar
    Jun 17, 2013
    2
    By far the worst hack n slash. Medieval combat based game I have ever played. Mediocre graphics and probably the worst and most repetitive combat mechanics since Mortal online did us all the favor of dying out. The fact I can compare a game of this genre to an MMO is sad in itself.

    The one redeeming feature is the use of siege engines but even that feels dull and unresponsive. This    By far the worst hack n slash. Medieval combat based game I have ever played. Mediocre graphics and probably the worst and most repetitive combat mechanics since Mortal online did us all the favor of dying out. The fact I can compare a game of this genre to an MMO is sad in itself.

    The one redeeming feature is the use of siege engines but even that feels dull and unresponsive. This is medieval combat dumbed down to below anything I can ever remember playing..

    I could find no bugs and found servers easily which each deserve a point.    … Expand
  21. Thunder5555
    Oct 29, 2013
    2
    This is the game that has amazing potential. Sadly that's all there is, since none of that potential has been used.
    Fanboys will rate this game with 10pts and praise it even with its flawed to point where it can be considered as broken.
    I was going to write a long list of unbalanced stuff about the game but let's just keep it short. Great idea for the game, very bad execution,    This is the game that has amazing potential. Sadly that's all there is, since none of that potential has been used.
    Fanboys will rate this game with 10pts and praise it even with its flawed to point where it can be considered as broken.
    I was going to write a long list of unbalanced stuff about the game but let's just keep it short.
    Great idea for the game, very bad execution, nonexistent physics.
    Buy only if it's on sale for VERY cheap.    … Expand
  22. ted88pd
    Nov 26, 2013
    2
    Potrebbe essere un buon gioco, se non fosse infestato da infiniti bug che ne rovinano completamente l'esperienza di gioco. Tra latenza dei comandi, un hit system penoso che fa acqua da tutte le parti, il sistema di parata che fallisce nel 80% delle volte che la si utilizza(rendendola praticamente una feature inutile) e statistiche delle armi non veritiere e del tutto sballate si trasformaPotrebbe essere un buon gioco, se non fosse infestato da infiniti bug che ne rovinano completamente l'esperienza di gioco. Tra latenza dei comandi, un hit system penoso che fa acqua da tutte le parti, il sistema di parata che fallisce nel 80% delle volte che la si utilizza(rendendola praticamente una feature inutile) e statistiche delle armi non veritiere e del tutto sballate si trasforma nel peggior gioco al quale abbia mai giocato, rendendo la buona grafica mossa dall'unreal engine 3 le godibili ambientazioni medivali e un audio tutto sommato buono, aspetti del tutto invisibili oscurati dallo schifoso lavoro fatto sul gameplay e sul, a mio parere, nullo lavoro di beta test. Senza contare che hanno fatto uscire un dlc (a mio parere privo di qualsiasi senso, superficiale e quindi inutile) che non solo non va a corregere nessuno degli aspetti negativi citati prima ma addirittura ne raddoppia il numero, amplificando parecchio la frustrazione che si prova giocando a questa tragedia videoludica. In sostanza sconsiglio vivamente e caldamente a tutti coloro che si considerano videogiocatori, l'acquisto di questa schifezza sforanata da quegli incompetenti zappaterra dei Torn Banner Studios.

    P.S.
    Se siete degli accaniti troll allora questo gioco rfa per voi in quanto verrete insultati senza pietà ed indugio alcuno da quella che considero una delle community più maleducate di tutti i tempi (ebbene si riescono addirittura a fere peggio di quelli che giocano a cod...)    … Expand
  23. MrSpiffypants
    Jan 26, 2013
    2
    It's very sloppy. The combat is frequently silly, and doesn't require very much skill. The concept is amazing, but everything feels they tried to copy Halflife 2's crowbar-action and came up lacking. The games amusing, but I could have done with more Demon Souls/Dark Souls action where I felt like I was in control. Plus from the two hours I played (and consistently came in top three)It's very sloppy. The combat is frequently silly, and doesn't require very much skill. The concept is amazing, but everything feels they tried to copy Halflife 2's crowbar-action and came up lacking. The games amusing, but I could have done with more Demon Souls/Dark Souls action where I felt like I was in control. Plus from the two hours I played (and consistently came in top three) there seems to be a lot of faux pas where the goal isn't to win, it's to have knife fights/fist fights. To me that's a sign that players are trying to get more then what's offered in this game.… Expand
  24. SilvaTheWolf
    Feb 4, 2013
    2
    To begin with i wish to state that, the magical thing all the hype is about completely slipped past me, everything i read about this game praised it to the blue skies. It looked promising and innovative, it truly did, oh boy was I in for a surprise. I have always loved games involving duels, old school weapons, tactical melee fighting and quick paced combat; Chivalry: Medieval WarfareTo begin with i wish to state that, the magical thing all the hype is about completely slipped past me, everything i read about this game praised it to the blue skies. It looked promising and innovative, it truly did, oh boy was I in for a surprise. I have always loved games involving duels, old school weapons, tactical melee fighting and quick paced combat; Chivalry: Medieval Warfare certainly delivered that, just wrapped in a deformed package of minor bugs here and there, player to player verbal abuse and a feeling of uncompleted-nes. I have a creepy idea: Torn Banner Studios are in league with Apple marketing department, because the games grip on the players are astonishing. If you ask or talk to players about Chivalry´s bugs, be they minor or greater; all bugs impacts the gameplay for all and inevitable changes the outcome of matches and the game experience of the player.
    From time to time i found myself wondering if skill was actually relevant and needed, when random events dominate. With a sour taste in my mouth I could, time after time watch myself be pummeled on the spot by players exploiting the spam of attacks with fast weapons. The deal here is, you are stunned whenever you are hit, weapon damage or size makes no difference. Blocking these attacks drains your stamina rapidly, counter attacking is out of the issue, even with the fastest weapon in the game you are at a handicap when trying to lower your shield/weapon to attack, you WILL be struck and NO moves will save you, no matter how much skill or lack thereof you have. The same applies to when the game loves to bug, so that even when you with agility *dodged* your opponent and achieved a position facing his back, the game will most likely glitch and make that attack count so that you WERE hit anyway, and your skills does matter little against the un-logical.
    This game is not logical, have you tried holding a 40 kg sword likes those they used back then? I am positive and believes that any mature person can handle the weapons better with more endurance and faster movement in real life, than what the characters perform in-game. People will remind you how un-skilled they believe you are, they will call you a 12 year old CoD F*** and you will endure it; until you realize that, you would be able to stand for this harassment, if the game was worth it, but in the end, it is not, you wont FEEL good in the end, numbers or scores dosnt matter, you wont have fun with this game.
    Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is build upon a fantastic concept and the idea is executed neatly, but the gameplay and game experience... The game feels unfinished, unpolished and unbalanced. Torn Banner Studios should either have worked more on this, or they should have left it to more experienced developers and programmers. At the end of the day, even though i got the game on sale, it is my burning wish somehow, someday Chivalry: Medieval Warfare will be gone from this world, and my money would have been spent on an actual game instead.    … Expand
  25. cbib46
    Mar 31, 2013
    2
    Let's be honest, the game is graphically out-dated, fair enough I bought thinking having fun. Unfortunalety bugs are everywhere: servers not appearing in the list, browsers filters not working, impossible to parry sometimes, basic map bugs, lags.... The game was released 6 months ago, the level of bugs is not acceptable and the gasme is not enjoyable or playable in my view. end of marchLet's be honest, the game is graphically out-dated, fair enough I bought thinking having fun. Unfortunalety bugs are everywhere: servers not appearing in the list, browsers filters not working, impossible to parry sometimes, basic map bugs, lags.... The game was released 6 months ago, the level of bugs is not acceptable and the gasme is not enjoyable or playable in my view. end of march 2013 patch made it even worse.... don't buy it… Expand
  26. Yoh-lo
    Aug 1, 2013
    2
    Its goofy, buggy, plagued by hacks and worth about $5 but its a lot of fun to play in short bursts. Whoever did the voice acting deserves more work. Don't pay the outrageous price of $19.99, get it on sale.
  27. dudenolan
    Jun 29, 2013
    2
    Very poor game, combat is slow and very fiddly. Tried it for an hour before realising how dump it was then tried for another half an hour before giving in. Even at£6.99 on steam I feel like ive been robbed. Scored it 2 for trying to be original
  28. kosciuszko
    May 17, 2014
    2
    Was shocked to see so many people rate this game so highly.
    The best feedback I can give is this; I felt dizzy after playing it for only 10 minutes. The way the opponents run around like demented, speed induced freaks and attack makes it ridiculous to judge correctly and make a choice of attack. I spent more time spinning around trying to find the character, only for him to spin off    Was shocked to see so many people rate this game so highly.
    The best feedback I can give is this; I felt dizzy after playing it for only 10 minutes. The way the opponents run around like demented, speed induced freaks and attack makes it ridiculous to judge correctly and make a choice of attack. I spent more time spinning around trying to find the character, only for him to spin off again in another direction. My successful attacks were down to nothing more than pure luck.
    Truly awful game engine, and nothing whatsoever compared to how Mount and Blade plays which is off the scale superior to this garbage.    … Expand
  29. Barashou
    Apr 4, 2016
    2
    Been playing since the first month this game released, 80 hours in, cant stand it to play it longer than 20 minutes.

    Have seen all the tutorials and howto's, but the main thing is: This game DOES NOT facilitate ANY authentic melee combat. In short: whoever has skills with mousemacro's, mousedrags and bodyspins with high mouse sens. the best generally wins. Often against the good    Been playing since the first month this game released, 80 hours in, cant stand it to play it longer than 20 minutes.

    Have seen all the tutorials and howto's, but the main thing is:

    This game DOES NOT facilitate ANY authentic melee combat. In short: whoever has skills with mousemacro's, mousedrags and bodyspins with high mouse sens. the best generally wins. Often against the good players, you see their body TWITCHING in unhuman ways on speeds unimaginable; to kill you with blows you never see coming or can anticipate.

    That, and the abundant glitches and hitbox bugs that can be exploited make this game a big FAIL.    … Expand
  30. 30Cents
    Jun 21, 2015
    2
    NOTE: This review will be focused on the later versions of the game before it became broken, I read earlier reviews of the game saying that it used to be good. I became one of the unlucky players that came in too late when all the updates made the game worse, I believe it used to be a good game, I am just throwing this out here to clear up confusion.

    With its clunky controls, unbearable    NOTE: This review will be focused on the later versions of the game before it became broken, I read earlier reviews of the game saying that it used to be good. I became one of the unlucky players that came in too late when all the updates made the game worse, I believe it used to be a good game, I am just throwing this out here to clear up confusion.

    With its clunky controls, unbearable AI, and boring map design, Chivalry: Medieval is an arrow to the knee of multiplayer gaming.

    Gameplay/Opinion:
    The game starts off with the option to play the training mode (like most of these type of games do), choosing to play the training mode will put you at a training ground where knights are practicing with wooden people. The enviroment in the training mode is rather nice to look at, too bad this is the only part of the game where something looks like it had the most effort put into it. You start off with practicing the basic moves in the game with abilities to run, crouch, and attack, the attacking part seems to be more of a chore than the game teaching how to play the game. You are first taught to do the useless hand-to-hand combat before learning the basic sword moves, surprisingly fighting with the fists seems to be more accurate than hitting with a sword. After learning hand-to-hand combat, you are given a sword to train with, you are told to hit a wooden person learning the basic moves like side slash. stab, and blocking. After you are done with the sword, you are told to practice with two different sides, one is learning how to handle different melee weapons, and the other is learning how to use a bow and arrow. I found the most effective weapon was the bow and arrow, sure it has its problems, but I found it to be more effective than all the melee weapons I had learned how to use. So after training, you are asked to defeat a knight of the opposing side you are on, I was asked to use a melee weapon to defeat my opponent, the problem with this is the AI is so terrible that you will get defeated by your oppenent 2 or 3 times before you can defeat him, I would have rathered swallow the sword I was given instead of trying multiple times to defeat this guy. After defeating your opponent you are asked to board a ship, and that is where the training mode ends.

    After boarding the ship, I was thrown back to the main menu to choose the game mode I wanted to play, it offers simplistic game modes like capture the flag, deathmatch, and defend your base, I chose to play capture the flag. Once a game mode has been picked you are thrown into the game with random players you don't know playing the game and racking up points. You are asked which side you want to play on, which is the obvious red or blue team, you then get a menu telling what character you want to play as, and you get one final menu what weapon you want to use in the battle.

    Once in the game you will respawn with all the selections you choose from all the menus you went through, the objective depends on whatever mode you picked from the main menu. I started to play the game trying to capture the flag as I was assigned to do, there was the opposing team enemy's always in my way, I tried to defeat some of them along the way, but I always died to my oppenents whenever I was in a duel with one. I did manage to capture the flag and bring it back to the home base, I continued to play and captured another flag, it seemed the opposing team I was playing against forgot about the flag as I never died the two times I captured it. A text box popped up voting what map to play next, I ignored the text box and quit the game for that day.

    I played the game the next day, I decided to play deathmatch instead of capture the flag, I had the exact same problems with capture the flag. The deathmatch mode is simple, just kill every player around you right? Wrong. The players you play against will always get into a duel with another player, and you can't even interrupt and kill them both. It always has to be another duel with another player, it is a hit or miss situation when it comes down to melee fighting. I had the same problems with melee fighting as the previous day, I could not hit the player I was fighting against, the hitbox is way too small on the opposing player, and no, you can't just hit anywhere you want, it has to be a specific area or else the game will not detect it. Why do I have hit somewhere specific when the player is right in front of me? It may sound like I suck at the game (which I did at times when I played the game) but I swear I had hit in some places where the game had to register the attack, I even read some reviews online that players were having the same problem, some believe it was an update in the game that caused this, and some believe it is because a hacker is on the server. Not only that, but when I did not play the game I always had random updates almost everyday for the game, and I am not even kidding, every time I turned on my computer there was always an update for the game, the updates never explained what they were or what they did, it was just sitting there chewing up space off of my computer.

    I also had some frame rate issues, I had to turn down the resolution to reduce lag, even at the lowest settings the game lagged in some places where it did not have to, Skyrim runs way faster than this, and this game is not as large as that game! I noticed a few times that the sounnd effects were off to, there would be times where I would die and did not know what killed me, then a few seconds later I would hear a yell sound really loud, I assumed that I was killed by a player with a sword from behind. After that day, I decided to quit the game and not come back to it, I had enough with the countless bugs and the terrible combat gameplay.

    Final Opinion:
    While it sounds like a good idea, Chivalry fails to show how great of a game it could turn out to be. The combat is buggy, the the training mode is one of the worst I have ever played, there are huge amounts of glitches, and the effects just don't work. If you want to play a game that is has everything I mentioned in this review then do it, I can tell you that you won't enjoy it if you have played a game just as buggy as this one (or worse).    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. GameOver.gr
    Feb 26, 2013
    70
    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.
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  2. PC Master (Greece)
    Feb 4, 2013
    80
    Chivalry is slightly… bipolar. The spectacle of a duel (especially if the two opponents are seasoned veterans) can be spectacularly breath-taking, a complex choreography that one can only marvel at. Blocks, feints, slashes, back-steps, side-hits: despite initial impressions, this can be a truly intellectual game of tactics, requiring high skills, observation and deviousness. On the other hand, the spectacle of a massive battle of fifty warriors can be ridiculously chaotic: especially if the players are inexperienced and go for blind “hack and slash” tactics, it’s more like a metal concert mosh pit than a battle for glory and honor. [February 2013]
  3. PC Gamer
    Feb 1, 2013
    81
    Chivalry is Quake to War of the Roses' Battlefield, and those seeking a faster-paced bloodier experience will undoubtedly prefer Chivalry's type of steel. [March 2013, p.65]
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