Ah, yes. Everyone loves a good gaming stabbing device. Whether you're slicing through demons or just giving bad guys a good poking, there's a swordfight for every occasion. Let's take a look at some of the very best that PlayStation has to offer…
Oh, and if this leaves you in the mood for more weapon-based shenanigans, check out two of our most martial of features. There's one about the - both accompanied by comment from real life weapons experts. Anyway, yeah, sword-fights.
From Software’s hard-as-nails dungeon crawler hates you unequivocally. Yet it’s still kind enough to offer you a huge array of slashing implements to enter into demon swordfights with. Whether it’s a piddling steak knife or a dirk the size of a Cadillac, variety is the spice of constant death.
Stupid Corvo. Why do your clanging metal-on-metal skirmishes have to be so much darn fun? When lopping off limbs is so satisfying, it’s only natural you’d be tempted to bin off careful Blink-based sneakery to stab up every corrupt official in Dunwall. Go on, embrace your inner Errol Flynn. En garde!
Truly, the right stick is mightier than the sword. Without Raiden’s slo-mo stick-twirling Blade mode, the ninja would wield all the precision of a heart surgeon who’s dropped out of med school to learn vascular procedures from Operation. Master his flurries of slicing and dicing to dominate in cyborg swordfights.
D’aww, would you look at those adorable Danish plastic lumps? Put a pair of tiny cutlasses in the hollow claws of minifig Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush and you have a high seas Jolly Roger-off for the ages. Granted, all you’re doing is pressing square, but this is still some damn cute swordplay.
Nariko really is a despicable cheat. The feudal warrior wins countless stabby encounters against overwhelming odds purely because her sword is essentially an eviscerating Transformer. Capable of morphing between two blades on a chain and a giant katana, it makes her the undoubted don of duels.
You insult my honour, sir. I challenge you to a duel… uh, using plastic wands with glowing balls on the end. Still, if you cart your noggin off to Imagination Island, the short sword scuffles in this compendium of Move mini-games is fairly satisfying. Pity it’s light on the gorily graphic decapitations, mind.
Look, a lightsaber is definitely a sword, okay? Oh sure, they never get blunt and buzz more than a hive of hornets going medieval on Macaulay Culkin’s ass. Yet give an asthmatic robot man and a crew-cut dude two of ‘em and you have one heck of a swordfight… even if there are far too many QTEs for our liking.
If there’s one thing The Princess Bride taught us, it’s that André The Giant is a dude. Oh, and pointy smackdowns between two opponents are hella noble. Soulcalibur is PS3’s premier sword scrapper thanks to its agile combat, but samurais puncturing thong-flashing ladies is hardly dignified.
There are certain rules of engagement one should follow when it comes to proper duelling etiquette. One: don’t fight in church. Two: avoid stabbing a man’s cast. Nero and Dante cheerfully ignore both of these guidelines as they engage in a blade battle that destroys both God’s house and the former’s arm plaster.
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