7 Amazing New Video Games For The Medieval Swordsman In All Of Us

2. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Since Geralt of Rivia's first couple brushes with success and over a year's worth of buzz surrounding his third outing, The Witcher is about to be one of the biggest names in virtual entertainment, let alone one of gamings most refined swordsman. Where The Witcher 2 had twenty something combat animations, The Witcher 3 will give us ninety individual dodge and attack sequences and extra-fluid transitions. Evasion is no longer relegated to constant tuck'n rolling. We now have a standard dodge, but also a stylish pirouette. You can also interrupt any sword swing with a parry or counter, granting players more immediate control in those crucial fractions of a second. Geralt's swordplay had always been meaty, but The Witcher 3 demos have shown him cutting just about every other punk in half. Add in a wide variety of huntable monsters with different anatomies and attack patterns and we've got some experimenting to do if we expect to learn our way around the blade.