The big, crunchy, NPC-heavy online thunder has been somewhat stolen by Ubisoft's For Honor, whose halting success surely gives the makers of any other historical warfare action game pause for thought, but this is a very different proposition. Nonetheless, it's quite a sight to wander straight into an online game that casually pitches massed armies against each other, then folds battering rams, siege towers and trebuchets into the mix. My character has an invisible or psychedelic face depending on where the camera is, for instance, while weird, spiky artifacts fluttered unpleasantly across the screen at all times. This stage of the beta, which only runs until Feb 4, has one foot in the world of startling technological accomplishment and the other in the world of glitchy strife. Here's a fresh take on playing as a general who gets their hands oh-so-dirty. Total War has made its own attempt to provide a boots-on-the-ground view of its enormous historical skirmishes, but 2005's Spartan: Total Warrior wasn't exactly a crowd-pleaser. It arrives with eerily similar timing to that other big-scale medieval game Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but entirely multiplayer rather than singleplayer, and is all about bundling together hacky-slashy third-person tropes with a massed-army siege mentality.
I've been playing the closed beta of Conqueror's Blade, a lavish medieval warfare MMO from a team led by assorted Halo alumni.
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