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I spent a lot of time dueling other players in Dark Souls. I'd carelessly wander into the Darkroot forest and willfully invite the protectors of those shaded woods to come and try to force me out of them.

There's an old cliche, repeated late in For Honor's single-player campaign, that says you don't truly know somebody until you've fought them (ideally with swords). I don't know how true that is in real life, but the notion suits For Honor rather well. Ubisoft's medieval battle game boasts a deep and rewarding swordfighting system and uses this to power everything from story mode to four-on-four multiplayer to one-on-one duels. Yet the real value in this system comes from the way it exposes the personality of the person behind the controller.As one of 12 initially-available characters you enter an online battlefield split between objective capture, elimination and deathmatch modes. It's a third-person game and combat uses a lock-on system similar to Dark Souls or the 3D Zeldas, albeit with directional control of your blade.

Carve a path of destruction through an intense, believable battlefield in For Honor.

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For Honor review: Ubisoft's gladiatorial battler is a delightfully surprising package. Challenging? Yes. Brutal? Absolutely. But it's addictive, too.

At first glance, you could be forgiven for thinking For Honor is a simple hack and slash game, but once you're behind the controller realise that there is so much more to be found in Ubisoft's new "Art of Battle" control system.

For Honor is a fighting game. I had to keep repeating that to myself every time I got frustrated. The third-person camera, the medieval settings and the melee weapons had caught me off guard.

Ubisoft's brawler offers some of the best multiplayer action in recent memory with its deep and flexible melee combat.

Ubisoft's brawler offers some of the best multiplayer action in recent memory thanks to its deep and flexible melee combat.