Spartacus Legends - Improvment Thoughts

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.

Uni - The be all and end all?

Hi I'm Jamie, this is a new blog i am starting up. It was meant to be originally for video games content and i still intend that to be the case, ill be posting game review, my thoughts about the industry, possible article about things i would like to discuss and finally just general chit chat.

This first post though is more of a get to know me and where i am in life at the moment. so 2 years back i started university doing a games art course with the aspiration of becoming a 3D modeller as my forte, as the course progressed i found i wasn't enjoying it, but i pushed on anyway. i failed a module the first year (which was a foundation year BTW) and then i had to retake through the summer, but adamant that i should still be at university i pressed on and passed into the next year.

 Next year rolls around and I'm going through all these lectures and lessons hating it and not enjoying what i thought i had a passion for, but once again i pressed on too the finish line. so summer starts and that demon question comes back again, Should i leave uni?. I started having a hard think about my future and if i really want to continue uni and if i really want a job at all in the games industry, designing games. I know its hard work (which i don't mind), long hours and worst of all I'm not that passionate about it that i want to sacrifice most of my life to that type of job. So i made the decision to drop out, nothing is official yet but i have no clue what to do next, get a job, an apprenticeship? who knows?.

This is where blogging comes in, i have always entertained the idea of becoming a games journalist, i mean whats not to like about reviewing games, talking about games and attending event eh? Well lets be serious i know that industry isn't all rainbows and sunshine, but none the less i only love one thing in the world and that's gaming and i realised making them isn't where i need to be involved but maybe writing about them is. Here lines my most troublesome problem, I'm not a great writer i have never been as you can probable see in this post :), but maybe if i continue this blog posting game reviews and so on then ill improve and maybe give myself some prospects and a possible free lance job on a gaming news website and work my way from there, the world really is my oyster. 

 So thanks to anyone who takes the time to read and i will start posting weekly or as much as i feel is necessary