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A local game store that sells, games for your computer, is having a sale and I was having a look see whilst wandering about.
And discovered a game I liked the look of, so I bought it. Hey £20 isn't going to break the bank so if it sucked, I'd sell it to a stupid person.
However, I managed to have on of those rare treats where something surpasses your expectations and is actually very, very good.
Gladius.
The easy way to know if you'd like it is if you enjoyed the following pieces of entertainment:
Star Wars:KOTOR
Gladiator (Ridley Scott movie)
Barbarian (old Spectrum game with head-lopping)
If you answered yes to more than 1, then you really owe it to yourself to check it out.
You own and run a Gladiator school and beat the crap out of loads of others in an arena to advance. That's the basic version.
But the basic version as in "You find bits of a map and kill aliens" describes KOTOR.
There are 2 different storylines depending on whether you choose the male or female hero at the start, and each story lasts approx 50-60 hours (according to reviews I checked out afterwards), so it's an immense bloody game.
And, like KOTOR, it's a bit slow to reveal it's charms. You start with 2 basic, level 1 Gladiators that basically throw pebbles and run away instead of being mental Romans, but after a couple hours you start to buy and hire others to join your school, travelling from town to town to engage in fights.
There are 4 (I think) lands, with about 6-7 towns in each. Each town has a league consisting of about 40 battles split into 4-5 seperate divisions (you don't have to do them all, nor do all of each division - just enough to qualify as a victory in that one), then a tournament and then a championship.
So you're looking at about 50 or 60 fights per town.
I've been playing for 24hrs and haven't even managed to get off the 1st land yet, but it's huge fun to just smash things in.
The Gladiators are split into:
Light, Medium, Heavy, Support, Beasts.
And each catagory has about 15 different types, so the possibilities are endless. I've just had a ruck with 3 Minotaurs, before that was against 2 massive wolves and their pups. Next up is against 5 heavies armed with tridents and nets.
The graphics are superb, sound is excellent, gameplay is turn-based (but not crap like the FF games) and very fast flowing. You can use obstacles in the arenas to your advantage (like boxes or natural rock shelves for a height-advantage).
Think a video game version of that bit in Gladiator when he storms out and butchers those blokes, chained to the African and then stands there shouting "Are you not entertained????" afterwards.
Bloodthirsty, violent, tactical, exciting, massive depth to the fights, one of the largest games in terms of longevity and hours spent on it.
It's Star Wars:KOTOR with Maximus instead of some tossy space fairy, and massive great swords/hammers/tridents/axes/spears/maces/chariots instead of blaster pistols.
Well worth £20 and I recommend it 100% for those looking for a superb mix of tactics and smashing people's skulls in with melee weapons.
And discovered a game I liked the look of, so I bought it. Hey £20 isn't going to break the bank so if it sucked, I'd sell it to a stupid person.
However, I managed to have on of those rare treats where something surpasses your expectations and is actually very, very good.
Gladius.
The easy way to know if you'd like it is if you enjoyed the following pieces of entertainment:
Star Wars:KOTOR
Gladiator (Ridley Scott movie)
Barbarian (old Spectrum game with head-lopping)
If you answered yes to more than 1, then you really owe it to yourself to check it out.
You own and run a Gladiator school and beat the crap out of loads of others in an arena to advance. That's the basic version.
But the basic version as in "You find bits of a map and kill aliens" describes KOTOR.
There are 2 different storylines depending on whether you choose the male or female hero at the start, and each story lasts approx 50-60 hours (according to reviews I checked out afterwards), so it's an immense bloody game.
And, like KOTOR, it's a bit slow to reveal it's charms. You start with 2 basic, level 1 Gladiators that basically throw pebbles and run away instead of being mental Romans, but after a couple hours you start to buy and hire others to join your school, travelling from town to town to engage in fights.
There are 4 (I think) lands, with about 6-7 towns in each. Each town has a league consisting of about 40 battles split into 4-5 seperate divisions (you don't have to do them all, nor do all of each division - just enough to qualify as a victory in that one), then a tournament and then a championship.
So you're looking at about 50 or 60 fights per town.
I've been playing for 24hrs and haven't even managed to get off the 1st land yet, but it's huge fun to just smash things in.
The Gladiators are split into:
Light, Medium, Heavy, Support, Beasts.
And each catagory has about 15 different types, so the possibilities are endless. I've just had a ruck with 3 Minotaurs, before that was against 2 massive wolves and their pups. Next up is against 5 heavies armed with tridents and nets.
The graphics are superb, sound is excellent, gameplay is turn-based (but not crap like the FF games) and very fast flowing. You can use obstacles in the arenas to your advantage (like boxes or natural rock shelves for a height-advantage).
Think a video game version of that bit in Gladiator when he storms out and butchers those blokes, chained to the African and then stands there shouting "Are you not entertained????" afterwards.
Bloodthirsty, violent, tactical, exciting, massive depth to the fights, one of the largest games in terms of longevity and hours spent on it.
It's Star Wars:KOTOR with Maximus instead of some tossy space fairy, and massive great swords/hammers/tridents/axes/spears/maces/chariots instead of blaster pistols.
Well worth £20 and I recommend it 100% for those looking for a superb mix of tactics and smashing people's skulls in with melee weapons.
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mr sunday night wrote:
> u like this game????dear god! i played a demo of it the other month
> and turned it off after 1 minute. rubbish game.
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I'm very happy for you.
Please come back when you've mastered basic English please, you're not txting your feral gang of mates now.
> u like this game????dear god! i played a demo of it the other month
> and turned it off after 1 minute. rubbish game.
---------
I'm very happy for you.
Please come back when you've mastered basic English please, you're not txting your feral gang of mates now.
Fiery Salamander wrote:
> Do you play a fighter or do you just watch AI fighters fight?
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You control all the fighters.
Say a fight allows you 5 gladiators, and you have enough of that particular class to have all 5 in - then you control all of them in turn.
The only AI are the opponents.
And has co-op campaign play and multiplayer battles via system link or split screen.
> Do you play a fighter or do you just watch AI fighters fight?
------------
You control all the fighters.
Say a fight allows you 5 gladiators, and you have enough of that particular class to have all 5 in - then you control all of them in turn.
The only AI are the opponents.
And has co-op campaign play and multiplayer battles via system link or split screen.
u like this game????dear god! i played a demo of it the other month and turned it off after 1 minute. rubbish game.
Do you play a fighter or do you just watch AI fighters fight?
A local game store that sells, games for your computer, is having a sale and I was having a look see whilst wandering about.
And discovered a game I liked the look of, so I bought it. Hey £20 isn't going to break the bank so if it sucked, I'd sell it to a stupid person.
However, I managed to have on of those rare treats where something surpasses your expectations and is actually very, very good.
Gladius.
The easy way to know if you'd like it is if you enjoyed the following pieces of entertainment:
Star Wars:KOTOR
Gladiator (Ridley Scott movie)
Barbarian (old Spectrum game with head-lopping)
If you answered yes to more than 1, then you really owe it to yourself to check it out.
You own and run a Gladiator school and beat the crap out of loads of others in an arena to advance. That's the basic version.
But the basic version as in "You find bits of a map and kill aliens" describes KOTOR.
There are 2 different storylines depending on whether you choose the male or female hero at the start, and each story lasts approx 50-60 hours (according to reviews I checked out afterwards), so it's an immense bloody game.
And, like KOTOR, it's a bit slow to reveal it's charms. You start with 2 basic, level 1 Gladiators that basically throw pebbles and run away instead of being mental Romans, but after a couple hours you start to buy and hire others to join your school, travelling from town to town to engage in fights.
There are 4 (I think) lands, with about 6-7 towns in each. Each town has a league consisting of about 40 battles split into 4-5 seperate divisions (you don't have to do them all, nor do all of each division - just enough to qualify as a victory in that one), then a tournament and then a championship.
So you're looking at about 50 or 60 fights per town.
I've been playing for 24hrs and haven't even managed to get off the 1st land yet, but it's huge fun to just smash things in.
The Gladiators are split into:
Light, Medium, Heavy, Support, Beasts.
And each catagory has about 15 different types, so the possibilities are endless. I've just had a ruck with 3 Minotaurs, before that was against 2 massive wolves and their pups. Next up is against 5 heavies armed with tridents and nets.
The graphics are superb, sound is excellent, gameplay is turn-based (but not crap like the FF games) and very fast flowing. You can use obstacles in the arenas to your advantage (like boxes or natural rock shelves for a height-advantage).
Think a video game version of that bit in Gladiator when he storms out and butchers those blokes, chained to the African and then stands there shouting "Are you not entertained????" afterwards.
Bloodthirsty, violent, tactical, exciting, massive depth to the fights, one of the largest games in terms of longevity and hours spent on it.
It's Star Wars:KOTOR with Maximus instead of some tossy space fairy, and massive great swords/hammers/tridents/axes/spears/maces/chariots instead of blaster pistols.
Well worth £20 and I recommend it 100% for those looking for a superb mix of tactics and smashing people's skulls in with melee weapons.
And discovered a game I liked the look of, so I bought it. Hey £20 isn't going to break the bank so if it sucked, I'd sell it to a stupid person.
However, I managed to have on of those rare treats where something surpasses your expectations and is actually very, very good.
Gladius.
The easy way to know if you'd like it is if you enjoyed the following pieces of entertainment:
Star Wars:KOTOR
Gladiator (Ridley Scott movie)
Barbarian (old Spectrum game with head-lopping)
If you answered yes to more than 1, then you really owe it to yourself to check it out.
You own and run a Gladiator school and beat the crap out of loads of others in an arena to advance. That's the basic version.
But the basic version as in "You find bits of a map and kill aliens" describes KOTOR.
There are 2 different storylines depending on whether you choose the male or female hero at the start, and each story lasts approx 50-60 hours (according to reviews I checked out afterwards), so it's an immense bloody game.
And, like KOTOR, it's a bit slow to reveal it's charms. You start with 2 basic, level 1 Gladiators that basically throw pebbles and run away instead of being mental Romans, but after a couple hours you start to buy and hire others to join your school, travelling from town to town to engage in fights.
There are 4 (I think) lands, with about 6-7 towns in each. Each town has a league consisting of about 40 battles split into 4-5 seperate divisions (you don't have to do them all, nor do all of each division - just enough to qualify as a victory in that one), then a tournament and then a championship.
So you're looking at about 50 or 60 fights per town.
I've been playing for 24hrs and haven't even managed to get off the 1st land yet, but it's huge fun to just smash things in.
The Gladiators are split into:
Light, Medium, Heavy, Support, Beasts.
And each catagory has about 15 different types, so the possibilities are endless. I've just had a ruck with 3 Minotaurs, before that was against 2 massive wolves and their pups. Next up is against 5 heavies armed with tridents and nets.
The graphics are superb, sound is excellent, gameplay is turn-based (but not crap like the FF games) and very fast flowing. You can use obstacles in the arenas to your advantage (like boxes or natural rock shelves for a height-advantage).
Think a video game version of that bit in Gladiator when he storms out and butchers those blokes, chained to the African and then stands there shouting "Are you not entertained????" afterwards.
Bloodthirsty, violent, tactical, exciting, massive depth to the fights, one of the largest games in terms of longevity and hours spent on it.
It's Star Wars:KOTOR with Maximus instead of some tossy space fairy, and massive great swords/hammers/tridents/axes/spears/maces/chariots instead of blaster pistols.
Well worth £20 and I recommend it 100% for those looking for a superb mix of tactics and smashing people's skulls in with melee weapons.
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