So I have put quite a few hours into Spartacus over the last
week and I am still loving the game, but as I’ve played more and more I have
started to see where this game could have been a true gem if it had got a full
scale release. Let’s start with the
combat system, at the moment it’s a one on one fighter. This gameplay style
works but I was thinking, imagine if it was more of a third person fighter,
think God of War. This would open up the game so much and let it be possible to
have more than one gladiator in the area at once, allowing for team battles or
just a free for all. I think this would have been amazing; also anther thing I
think they missed out on with the game is environmental interaction. In the
Spartacus TV series the gladiators sometimes use the environment to their
advantage, whether its jump off it for a sword stab or just smashing your opponent
into the wall, I just think this could have made the battles more interesting.
Now as I explained in my review I think the ludas management
this game has is awesome but with some work and a little more expansion it
could be a game on its own. Maybe they could add gladiator trading, with other
ludas’s and maybe the fame system would mean more than unlocking more fights,
maybe it would mean other lanista’s would take notice of you and send assassins
to kill your gladiators to spit your or stunt the growth of your ludas and
other things of this nature. This would mean economy in the game would be more
important deciding whether to spend your gold on more gladiators or better
training or maybe spending it to accommodate a person of high favour in your
villa to gain more favour in the games. I really think the gladiator management
game could have been way more intense and also adding in other ludas owners
would have been a great way to spice things up rather than fighting generic
gladiator 1 or 2. Also a story mode could have been added it would have been so
easy to be done maybe just convert the series into a game or even you make your
own gladiator and follow his way through gladiator school set in the Spartacus
world or follow Spartacus through the rebellion, I really think there is so
many possibilities.
As this game was just F2P these thoughts are just wishes
that I will most likely never see fulfilled and my heart will yearn to get a
gladiator game that will never exist.
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