E3 2015: For Honor Is Ubisoft’s Knights vs. Vikings vs. Samurai Game

Ubisoft Montreal has revealed its next big new game. Revealed during the Ubisoft E3 2015 press conference, For Honor is a melee-only combat game focusing on brutal battles between three factions: vikings, knights, and samurai. For Honor is coming to Xbox One, PS4, and PC in 2016.

Creative Director Jason VandenBerghe took to the E3 stage to talk more in depth about For Honor. A four-on-four demo showed objective-based multiplayer played on PlayStation 4. Each team pushed toward a central objective with a massive army of AI units.

A knight player engaged against two samurai and fended off their attacks before an ally came to help. The combat on show was brutal and highly lethal, with violent fights ending quickly before players moved on to the next fight, objective, or mass of disposable soldier fodder. Gruesome executions punctuated each fight.