War of the Roses: Kingmaker is a team based third person action game set in 15th century England. Two rival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet - the house of Lancaster (the reds) and the house of York (the whites) – fight over the throne, and the player is thrown into the fray.
War of The Roses: Kingmaker sees players go toe-to-toe with their opponents using authentic and visceral weapons of the time period including broad swords, long bows and battle-axes.
- Over 50 authentic weapons across 10 weapon categories. Everything from Billhooks to Bastard swords, Longbows to Lances!
- Customize your gear: choose fighting style, blade type, metal type, and much more!
- Over 20 customizable helmets. Paint your helmet, attach crests, plumes, coifs and visors for greater fashion or function.
- Choose armor from nine different types - light, medium, and heavy. All with their own unique consequences and benefits.
- Over 30 play-style changing perks that let you create truly unique characters with special abilities like eagle eye or shield bash.
- Groundbreaking Mounted Gameplay! Melee combat will never be the same - mount up and experience new tactical and visceral thrills.
- Create your own coat of arms with near limitless combinations as you choose your division, ordinary, charge, and crest.
- Experience a deep leveling system as you rise through the ranks, gaining new titles, weapons, gear, and much more!
- Battle online through 10 historically inspired war zones as you experience the conflict between Lancaster & York first hand
- Four game modes including the all-new Assault game mode, made specifically for the Kingmaker edition.
- Vicious 64 player competition on all game modes modes
- Steam Big Picture support for controller gaming!