Watch the ambitious swordfighting of Kingdom Come: Deliverance

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is making waves for being a realistic medieval role-playing game without wizards and dragons and all that fantastical paraphernalia. It's a historical role-playing game from the Czech Republic.
Simulated swordplay and combat is a pivotal part of the package. The aim is to make it feel as real - not flashy - as possible. It's first-person, and ruled by physics, with the clash and clang of steel on steel, be it another blade or someone's armour. The aim is to put you in the shoes of an (albeit very talented) fighter of that period of time.
A lot of this history is on developer Warhorse's Czech doorstep, including medieval battle re-enactments and experts in sword styles of the medieval time. And it was all drawn upon to try and achieve the desired result.
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