Out today on PlayStation 4, For Honor promises a suite of medieval multiplayer modes, but despite its clear focus on competitive play, we're more often asked about its single player campaign. While we don't have a review for you lot yet, we can at least tell you that said campaign lasts around 5-6 hours on normal difficulty.
The single player offering is spread across three chapters, each one focusing on a specific band of warriors, be it the knights, the vikings, or the samurai. There's an overarching plot and a few voiced characters scattered throughout, while gameplay is split between set missions and boss fights. There's a levelling mechanic in place too, which could provide some replayability if you're keen on playing through stages that you've already completed.
Again, multiplayer is definitely the focus here, but at least the campaign isn't just the throwaway tutorial that many thought it may be. Still, clocking in at around six hours, it alone might not be worth the price of admission. It's also worth mentioning that, as far as we're aware, you have to be connected to Ubisoft's servers in order to play it.
Have you been looking forward to the single player component of For Honor? Is six hours enough for you? Sheathe your sword in the comments section below.
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6 hours of the most repetitive combat system.
Nope. Not for me. 6 hours of repetition before being thrown into more repetition is not my idea of fun.
Unless it's Destiny. Destiny gets a free pass.
A 6 hour tutorial teaching you have to play the online mode.
Nice to see it's fairly long as I thought it would be something like Rainbow 6.
I did enjoy my time with the beta, so I may bite but most probably when it hits the £30 price tag.
Hmmm, will see how this scores but for 6 hours I'll probably wait for it to hit the bargain bin... Feels like the SP has been tacked on...
I think it's funny that a game like CoD or Battlefield that is a dime a dozen has 5 hour campaigns every single year and that's OK. Meanwhile a game that does something completely new and fresh gets criticized for having a "tacked on" single player because it's a similar length. Anyway, I'm having a blast so far with it and I applaud Ubisoft for taking a risk and trying something new. Maybe people think it's a normal hack n' slash?
@PapaShuffler apparently mocking Ubisoft is a well estabilished gaming trend...
Remember when games had 5-6 hour campaign and people wouldn't b*tch about it? Yeah, I remember...it's better if a game has a 6 hour campaign, respecting your time, than having a RPG full of fetch quests!
I took part in the Beta this past weekend and while I won't come out say that it's bad, I also don't think it's that great either. In my opinion, I found it very unbalanced and very repetitive....but I thought it was a unique take on online multiplayer.
I don't think the 5-6 hour campaign would be an issue if the general gameplay and multiplayer was better. In the past, I've logged many hours of COD because the online multiplayer was fun in spite of the short the single player was. I gave this Beta a good try on Friday & Saturday but come Sunday I was done.
@AFCC Heavenly Sword was short and sweet i loved ik.
Come on let's be honest is anyone who is been playing this game really doing it for the single player campaign?
@arnoldlayne83 I only mock Ubisoft's servers.
I'm ok with 6 hours single campaign + all the multiplayer content. Unlike Mafia 3 (that i'm still forcing myself to finish) of repetitiveness gameplay.
I'll still wait for price drop for For Honor, I like that they are trying something new for a change. I saw 20 min of the campaign and I really liked it.
@PapaShuffler cod usually has a 9-12 hour campaign. I'm also unaware where you read your gaming news, but its always ALWAYS been criticised for the length of campaign mode.
I'm happy with a short campaign. Titanfall 2 had a short one, but that was outstanding.
@AFCC
Remember when games came on cassette tape, took 45 mins to load & no one cried about it?
Welcome to the entitled generation.
Language -Tasuki-
Its a ubisoft game it will improve in the future just like watchdogs2. Nowadays with dlc they can improve the duration as well add new areas and content all the time. And i read an article that they are going to focus just on that. From my piont of view ill wait. But just because i saw some gameplay and did not impress me that much. Just my piont of view
First and foremost, whomever believes this has the most repetetive and boring combat in a video game has clearly not played many games.
Against a human opponent fights are rarely hit and hope, they are often a battle of timing.
If this is repetetive and boring to some then thats their opinion, but having played FFXV where combat is quite literally holding down a button until you win or die, or any Turn Based Strategy ever, with combat being selection of a word, this is far from the most repetetive.
Having only played the knights chapter, and finding all the "observables", it took me around 2 1/2 hours maybe a little more.
These "observables" fill you in on some of the lore and history surrounding the central characters and so on.
The combat works, its far more intelligent than most games out there but its not going to be everyones cup of tea.
There are, from my experience with the beta, some balancing issues but thats to be expected.
As for online only, dont personally see an issue, I play Star Trek Online, and various other games like it.
Its not like the servers are down every 5 minutes.
Which reminds me, STO Agents of Yesterday just dropped on PS4…
Soooooooo, what you're saying is, 3 chapters, 3 factions each have their own chapter, and that means 2 hours long......yes, thank you for making my purchase choices so much easier.
@FaultyDroid
Yes I do and after 40 "read write error" or the tape messes up.
I thought it was one campaign per faction, not a chapter per faction.
I still would like to try it though.
@lixei32 and the loading sounds 😂
Reminds me of dial up internet thinking back 😂
Bonus for me, I didn't think it came with any single player at all. Got the game for free, but I'm going to wait a couple weeks until the game and servers get some patches.
@ToOGoodOfAPlaya
Good days back then. Today we complain about the 30 40 50 frames per second. I remember playing international matchday a football match and we were amazed as the golie could dive. On the second occasion he dived and got stuck on the ball we had to reload. And those ninja games ik+a karate game oh fond memories.
Dk why every one is b**ching it's clearly focused on multiplayer and that's where this game is at. And for people that are saying it's repetitive you could say the same for all the shooters/ most game's. I personally enjoy the combat and the genre so I'm sorted and really enjoy the game. Haven't touched the campaign yet though was having too much fun on multiplayer last night!
same like other online focused games. I'll get this at ~30 price point to experience the single player campaign
@AFCC actually I dont remember. Back in the days we had games like halflife or rainbow six with 15-20hr campaigns
I've only on the first chapter in Story mode and I like what I've played so far but for people who say they will wait for it to drop in price, if your interested in it (or any other game for that matter) just rent it, I only buy a few games a year as I couldn't afford to buy every game that I'm interested in. Just a thought.
@Eternallover21 No, on PC. Came with my new video card as a promo. I did play the beta on PS and it was decent, certainly more stable than what my friends playing say it is now!
@lixei32 haha yeah all good stuff.
Folks complain about a frame rate drop or 10 second load time nowadays, back then you could have a bad cassette that loaded the load screen for 10 mins stopped at the last line of the image and crashed.
Thats a full reset and another 10 minutes loading!
@Tasuki
I'm actually interested in the single player.
I may not be in the majority, in fact I know I'm not, but I still think there's a decent sized group of people like me.
Mandatory online kills it though.
@Flurpsel We had games like Uncharted 1, no MP 6 hour campaign
@Flaming_Kaiser Good example!
@AFCC the exception that confirms the rule. Is that even a saying in english..?
@Flurpsel Oh come on, hours of gameplay don't make a game better or worse! It's the enjoyment you get from it that matters...
Besides, this game is a multiplayer focused game, that's why I posted what I posted
@PapaShuffler I didn't like it at all, totally just a tutorial for online multiplayer modes. I actually just got back from selling it lol. Paid 49.99 + tax cnd and got 50 for it. Totally not worth the purchase if you are only interested in single player campaign experiences is all I'm saying. I don't play online at all due to my anxiety disorders.
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