War of the Roses is a team based third person action game set in 15th century England. Tworival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet - the house of Lancaster (the reds) and thehouse of York (the whites) – fight over the throne, and the player is thrown into the fray.
The years of 1455-1485 in England is an extraordinary setting filled with conflict, treachery andbloodshed. In the wake of the “death of chivalry” at Agincourt in 1415 and the introduction ofgunpowder, warfare changed; the gloves came off, so to speak. The old and the new clashedon the battlefield while personal vendettas persistently motivated the desire for war.
War of The Roses sees players go toe-to-toe with their opponents using authentic and visceralweapons of the time period including broad swords, long bows and battle-axes.
Features:
Over 30 authentic weapons across 10 weapon categories. Everything from Billhooks toBastard swords, Longbows to Lances!
Customize your gear: choose fighting style, blade type, metal type, and much more!
Over a dozen customizable helmets. Paint your helmet, attach crests, plumes, coifs and visorsfor greater fashion or function.
Choose armor from 3 different types; light, medium, and heavy. All with their own uniqueconsequences and benefits.
Over 30 play-style changing perks that let you create truly unique characters with specialabilities like eagle eye or shield bash.
Groundbreaking Mounted Gameplay! Melee combat will never be the same, mount up andexperience new tactical and visceral thrills.
Create your own coat of arms with near limitless combinations as you choose your division,ordinary, charge, and crest.
Experience a deep leveling system as you rise through the ranks, gaining new titles, weapons,gear, and much more!
Battle online through 7 historically inspired war zones as you experience the conflict betweenLancaster & York first hand.
Vicious 64 player competition in both Team Death Match and Conquest modes
System Requirements
Minimum Specifications: OS:Windows 7 and Vista Processor:Dual Core 2.4GHz processors RAM:4 GB Hard Drive:5 GB Video Card:Video Card: Shader 4.0 compatible card (minimum: Nvidia GeForce 9800, AMD Radeon 4830) Additional Info:Onboard Integrated Video Card: Not Supported
Steam account required for game activation and installation.
System Requirements:Supported OS: Windows 7,Windows Vista,WindowsProcessor: none specifiedRAM: none specifiedHard Disk: none specifiedVideo Card: none specified
From the Manufacturer
War of the Roses is a team based third person action game set in 15th century England. Two rival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet - the house of Lancaster (the reds) and the house of York (the whites) – fight over the throne, and the player is thrown into the fray.
The years of 1455-1485 in England is an extraordinary setting filled with conflict, treachery and bloodshed. In the wake of the “death of chivalry” at Agincourt in 1415 and the introduction of gunpowder, warfare changed; the gloves came off, so to speak. The old and the new clashed on the battlefield while personal vendettas persistently motivated the desire for war.
War of The Roses sees players go toe-to-toe with their opponents using authentic and visceral weapons of the time period including broad swords, long bows and battle-axes.
Features:
Over 30 authentic weapons across 10 weapon categories. Everything from Billhooks to Bastard swords, Longbows to Lances!
Customize your gear: choose fighting style, blade type, metal type, and much more!
Over a dozen customizable helmets. Paint your helmet, attach crests, plumes, coifs and visors for greater fashion or function.
Choose armor from 3 different types; light, medium, and heavy. All with their own unique consequences and benefits.
Over 30 play-style changing perks that let you create truly unique characters with special abilities like eagle eye or shield bash.
Groundbreaking Mounted Gameplay! Melee combat will never be the same, mount up and experience new tactical and visceral thrills.
Create your own coat of arms with near limitless combinations as you choose your division, ordinary, charge, and crest.
Experience a deep leveling system as you rise through the ranks, gaining new titles, weapons, gear, and much more!
Battle online through 7 historically inspired war zones as you experience the conflict between Lancaster & York first hand.
Vicious 64 player competition in both Team Death Match and Conquest modes
System Requirements
Minimum Specifications: OS:Windows 7 and Vista Processor:Dual Core 2.4GHz processors RAM:4 GB Hard Drive:5 GB Video Card:Video Card: Shader 4.0 compatible card (minimum: Nvidia GeForce 9800, AMD Radeon 4830) Additional Info:Onboard Integrated Video Card: Not Supported
Steam account required for game activation and installation.
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Some may say its buggys or low quality. But it is a diamond. I may be a little rough but with some polish it could be one of the greatest (and original) multiplayer experiences around. Don't get if your looking for single player. There is none. (The offline training mode is a tutorial not a true single player.)
Going from Chivalry to this game is like going from Duke Nukem 3D to Zero Hour. I picked it up for virtually nothing and it wasn't even worth the time nor the few dollars. I've heard the game described as more versatile, customizable, and thoughtful as Chivalry... the customization part is true but that's all you get. The tutorials make it clear that you're in for a very broken experience as soon as you start, featuring AI that in no way resembles actual players. You even have to teach yourself a lot of commands and sometimes the game won't advance you even after you meet your objective. Red soldiers don't look that different than white soldiers to the starting player either. The fighting is downright clunky... a mouse was never meant to be used this way. You have to to snaps back and forth to attack, not like Chivalrys FPS aiming... rather, you zip the mouse one direction every time you take a slash to let the game know what direction. It is a mess. It all of this wasn't enough to dissuade you, know that there were almost no servers playing last I checked and the number will only go down. I've heard the game is getting a major revamp in the future... it will need to be pretty major to justify anyone spending money on this game.
War of the Roses is essentially a game of dancing out of the other player's range and releasing your swing at the right time. It's boring, it's repetitive, it's mind-numbingly simple yet endlessly frustrating. The combat is clunky, the maps are forgettable, the animations are laughable. And the game just isn't fun at all. Somewhere along the line someone should have realized that this attempt to make the Call of Duty of medieval warfare would fall flat on its own broken concept.
Basically this game's claim to fame is that it takes skill - or at least that's what they'd like you to believe. The bottom line is you'll need to invest a bit of time in order to unlock gear to be viable, and the stock characters that they provide you are simply not going to do it. The game is fun, to a degree, but certainly not balanced to a level where it is truly about "skill".
For starters, you'll find out very quickly that shields are the absolute height of frustration in the game. Regardless of what you're wielding, it is possible for your opponent (or you) to simply hold down the right mouse button and survive near indefinitely, sometimes even against 4-5 people at a time. Couple that shield with a malaneese axe and you're basically going to go down unless both of you are cheesing with the axe/shield combo, in which case you will most likely just end up abandoning the fight altogether. Sadly, there's really no way around this, and even with the shield breaker perk and a halberd equipped, trying to take down your opponents shield will just score you a quick death-stab to the gut.
Moreover, hit-boxes for some weapons are extremely bizarre. At times you'll find yourself landing perfect shots with a halberd and getting nothing (the hitbox is theoretically at the tip of the weapon) - and other times you'll end up tearing through an opponent in one hit while you're hugging shoulders (where your halberd should never have registered a hit).
Damage counters are also very strange at times, you would think a fully-charged overhead attack to an archer's head while their back is turned to you would register an instant-kill, but more often than not, it will do about 30~ damage to what is around 100 hp per unit, give or take, while using a two-handed weapon.
Balance issues aside, the game is not an easy load-up. Even at the lowest settings, War of the Roses is fairly taxing, especially if you've got a low or mid-tier setup, and I would not recommend trying to run this on a laptop, unless you've got a beast, because it will be straining hard to keep up with the demands of the game, especially on snow maps.
Overall, a decent game, and certainly worth a 5$ price-tag if you can get it on sale, but definitely wait for the sale, you'll likely find yourself with a bit of buyer's remorse at full retail.
This is a very fun game to play with a group of friends online, few things can match the excitement of bashing each other's heads in with what feel like very good historical approximations of maces and lances. Unlocking upgrades for your characters in terms of new weapons and perks gives good incentive to play without creating a fundamental advantage for more experienced players. However, especially if you play solo , there is little content to be found here in terms of exciting objectives or strategic game play, as most servers degenerate into what is mostly a massive melee. I would have liked to see more content or things to do to keep my interest a bit better.
On the software distribution side, I had no issues whatsoever. I had never before bought a game through Amazon so I had some reservations initially, but what you get on time of purchase is a code to redeem through Steam to "purchase" the game. Worked flawlessly and at a lower price than through the Steam store directly, you sacrifice none of the social aspect that you may value.
Sometimes you just want to come home from a stressful day at work and get medieval on some people's a$$es. That is what this game is good for. I have loved every incarnation of Mount & Blade and I look forward to the day someone ports this kind of combat into an MMORPG format.
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