Tactical sword+shield games?

[Hodgepodge]

Anyone know of any good tactical fighting games in the sword-n-shield setting?

Examples of such would be the Kingdom under fire series.

My favourite type of game but I don't know of many . . . Also want to know what the genre is called

Thanks.

 

[FGMPR]

Anyone know of any good tactical fighting games in the sword-n-shield setting?

Examples of such would be the Kingdom under fire series.

My favourite type of game but I don't know of many . . . Also want to know what the genre is called

Thanks.

You may want to try Mount&Blade.

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That's the battle part of it. It also has a pretty complex grand campaign where you slowly take a small band of peasants and grow a large army and take over towns, lay sieges to castles, join a kingdom, get married, fight in tornie's, eventually starting your own kingdom and doing whatever you want, like trying to take over the continent.

It's a lot of fun, and the latest version, M&B: Warband has multi-player with a similar setup to counter-strike, although it also has 64 player sieges which can be a lot of fun. The combat, though, has a deep learning curve, and timing the blade, is tough at first, especially on horseback. Learning to be an effective archer is especially tough, whilst learning to be an effective archer on horseback is yet another step up.

I believe there's a demo out on steam if you want to give it a look, and it should run on most PC's, as it's not the greatest looking game out there to say the least.

Here's a video of a multi-player siege:
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[HBK619]

Demon's Souls. About as tactical as you can get really, combat wise.

 

[Micksy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_by_the_Sword

It's old as the hills, but seeing as you have another thread relating to old games why not comnine the two.

As far as i remember the sword was swung using the numpad, so pressing 9 then 1 would slash diagonally from top right to bottom left.

You could decapitate, and amputate, guys would hop after you on one leg.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41UyXgofO3o[/YOUTUBE]

 

[HSSB]

Modern Alien Sh*t 2 is amazing for riot shield+throwing knifes only private matches

 

[RoyalRoughead]

Severance: Blade of Darkness.

Wiki it. Hard to find but the best I've ever played. 9 years old and still better than all modern rivals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance:_Blade_of_Darkness