For Honor vs Soulcalibur: Lost Swords
For Honor
For Honor is a team-based, competitive melee brawler where knights, vikings and samurais duke it out on various gorgeously-designed, arena-like battlefields. Unlike many brawlers, however, this game includes some elements of MOBAs and MMOFPS games in it, specifically the presence of normal AI-controlled soldiers (a.k.a. creeps) and also the need to capture several objective points around the map, sometimes with the help of said soldiers, and hold it to earn points for your team.The gameplay is astounding as well. Featuring an intuitive, action-based combat system, the game places a lot of emphasis on knowing your enemy and predicting what they will do as you alternate between blocking your opponent's blows and dishing some of your own. Having situational and battlefield awareness is crucial too, since most of the time, it's better to let an enemy take a capture point rather than getting hemmed in by him and his reinforcements and dying pointlessly in the process.
You also get to customize your characters in For Honor, changing their weapon sets to fit your play style or swapping cooler outfits so you can look good when you deal that final blow. In addition to its multiplayer component, which is frankly the main part of the game, For Honor also features a single-player campaign where you'll get to battle challenging bosses.
Although the game didn't get as rave a review as Ubisoft might have expected, For Honor is still a pretty decent melee brawler with breathtaking graphics, which features the mightiest and most fearless warriors in humanity's brief stint on Earth. The game is a buy-to-play with microtransactions (cosmetics mainly).
Soulcalibur: Lost Swords
Soulcalibur: Lost Swords is an extension to the series where you play one of 3 characters on a quest to recover shards of weapons and upgrade and improve your own. With a story to follow and new characters to open up as you play there is a continuing arc that grabs you and brings you in. With the fighting style gameplay that the sage is renowned for and characters you know and love (or hate) you are off on a new adventure.Once you choose your character you are able to set out, once chosen they are the only character you can play until you find keys and items to open up more. There is an option for your enemies to drop items you can use, and you can fully customize your avatar as you play. Though there are some limitations over more full versions of the game, for a free to play title there is a lot of fun to be found here, and of course more of the ongoing story too.