Fatshark and Paradox Interactive are approaching launch date for their upcoming medieval melee combat game, War of the Roses.

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War of the Roses, it turns out, is an online competitive multiplayer game I can actually play halfway decently.

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It was the last fight in the War of the Roses, which ended with the ascension of Henry VII and the Tudors.

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Unlike War of the Roses, the direction of the mouse input has no bearing on what type of attack you make in Chivalry.

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War of the Roses is a terrifically fun game, but with the balancing issues, at-times clunky combat mechanics, and lack of a single-player campaign, it falls short of perfection.

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From CLANG, to War of the Roses, to Chivalry, plenty of games on the near or distant horizon are innovating with combat mechanics in new and exciting ways.

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How true this is for War of the Roses.

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"There are probably more bands in Manchester now than there's ever been before, " says John Robb, who wrote a book on the Stone Roses and, with his blog Louder Than War, is a vocal champion of new music.

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