For Honor Reviews
For Honor is a must-play title for anyone that's looking for a fresh take on multiplayer; it's fun, it has plenty of depth, and the new game hits hard.
For Honor has some dents in its shiny armor, such as the mediocre campaign, the frugal economy, and the snowballing victories in team modes. But it's hard to be mad too long when I consider that the melee combat system is second to none and a joy to learn, take your licks, and then learn some more. I could feel myself becoming a better warrior with this deep, flexible, and complete fighting system. The more I play For Honor, the more I want to play For Honor. I hope Ubisoft doubles-down on support, because it's something truly special.
A tense, tactical medieval brawler that will reward anyone with the patience and will to master it.
Ubisoft's novel fighting game finally comes into focus.
A deep and gratifying medieval swordfighting sim that risks putting off newcomers. Persevere and the rewards are well worth it.
For Honor is as close as most of us will get to our sword-and-shield fantasies, and it is amazing when it all works. Unfortunately, networking and interface issues are a chink in its armor
For Honor is worth the work you have to put into it
For Honor is an incredibly entertaining fighter that's satisfying both in single and multiplayer, even despite the narrative flaws of its story mode.
Even the most clumsy and gnarled duel will achieve moments of greatness. And when two experienced players operating on the same wave-length begin stringing together slashes, parries and counter-attacks in an unbroken chain, the resulting exchange feels as much like a choreographed ballet as a fight to the death…if ballets ended with severed heads flying into the orchestra.
For Honor can be likened to a third-person medieval Call of Duty: the single player campaign is well produced and tells an interesting story, but the bulk of the replay value comes from becoming involved with the Faction War in multiplayer.
Overall, I don't know exactly how I feel about For Honor. It sometimes feels like a Ubisoft hired a bunch of scientists in white coats to observe Dark Souls PvP from behind reinforced perspex and experiment on it with Dota DNA in a mad attempt to recreate a tame monster in a safe environment for their own nefarious ends (profit). What they've made is an interesting chimera, something that is both more accessible but sometimes just as unforgiving.
If the single-player had been better put together, there would be a lot more to scream and shout about, but the combat and online multiplayer is excellent at times.
For Honor's multiplayer is special, but as a whole it's let down by the less good single player, sometimes dodgy matchmaking, and a surfeit of microtransactions. The combat, though, is fantastic — it's gutsy and weighty, and you feel like a badass.
For Honor is a great idea dumpered by wrong choices. We love its combat, its visuals and it's a very fun game. But we don't like the chaotic 4 vs. 4 batlles, its F2P nature and the metagame Faction War is too shallow.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
If you can ignore the glaring connectivity issues, there is strength in For Honor’s arms. It’s multi-layered combat is its biggest selling point, which demands patience, wit, and intelligence to excel. Its moments of failures and successes resulting from it are some of the best I have had, but I only wish that they come in more often and consistently. Not everything works for For Honor, but there is tremendous potential. Right now, at launch, For Honor is a game envisioned by its developers. Now it’s up to the community to mold it into something of their own.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Where a lot of other competitive games use melee combat as a secondary means, For Honor shows a respect and admiration for the art of combat that’s as compelling and thrilling as any gunfight in a first-person shooter or battle in a strategy game. For the most part, For Honor is a competitive game with a unique, sharply-honed combat system that’s easy enough to pick up, but filled with depth and challenge to truly master. While the game’s fairly high skill ceiling and emphasis on micro-transactions might be off-putting to some players, For Honor is an experience that’s truly fit for those that are warriors at heart.
After countless epic sieges, splintered shields, and gnarly executions, For Honor has firmly cemented itself as one of the best multiplayer games we've ever played. It's unlike anything else out there, weaving together a unique combat system while cherry picking the best parts of being a live service game.
A great but very demanding multiplayer game, with a unique and deep combat system.
Review in Italian | Read full review
As it is, this is a game with a disposable single-player campaign, multiplayer matches that crash or disconnect as often as they complete, and a slew of fantastic mechanics that only rise to the surface in a single game mode out of a half-dozen.