The Spartans have Leonidas, the Persians have Xerxes, and the Egyptians have some guy I never heard of, and there are some secondary heroes floating around in the campaign as well.
In skirmish, it really didn’t matter to me which faction I was playing, which makes the game feel very flat.I mentioned that this is a hero-based RTS and so it is. Despite each faction having several of their own unique units, I can’t in recent memory think of a game that felt so similar regardless of which side you played on. Playing through the campaign you get to try out the Spartans, the Persians, and the Egyptians. Multiplayer is also very listless, as quickly mounting any sort of surprise assault force is just about impossible. The single player campaign feels very sluggish as a consequence as time and again you have to wait for your units to collect enough gold and wood to build a barracks (workshop, archery range, smithy, etc), and then more gold and food to raise an army. With guys collecting gold at about 30gp per round trip, a barracks costing 1500gp, an archery range costing 1700gp, a gymnasium (which gives you access to advanced soldiers) costing 2000gp (plus another couple thousand in research costs to actually get the advanced solders), and a soldier costing about 200gp, I can easily spend half an hour just putting my base together. Given that farms are relatively cheap in the perspective of the game economy (MUCH cheaper than units, at any rate) I couldn’t see a reason why you would want to, but you can.The majority of the game involves turtling up while you slowly build your economy and army and then swarming in a completely un-strategic way over the enemy with overwhelming forces, and the key word there is SLOWLY. Troops without food lose hit points, but you are completely welcome to create an enormous starving army if that is the way you want to play things. In what is a sort of interesting wrinkle, the availability of food is not a hard limit on the number of troops you can have. Collector units (slaves, helots, whatever) must be assigned to gather them. Where’s the vast Persian army? I don’t know your dinky go here and defeat this small camp of Persians’ and ‘go there and attack that little Persian base’ lacks the feeling that there is any massive Persian army anywhere.Game mechanics revolve around a standard three-element resource model: gold, food, and wood. And while the in-game movies do capture the sense of the plot of “The 300,” the gameplay completely misses it. Call me quibbling if you like, but it annoyed the crap out of me. Oh, and take it from a guy who studied Latin for seven years: it is definitely pronounced Lee-oh-ni-das, not Lee-oh-nee-das as the game uses. Ed looked when they packed his lips with peanut butter.
The mouths simply flap open and closed periodically, having nothing whatsoever to do with the dialog being spoken, similar to the way Mr. The plot is advanced through a combination of game engine animations and dialog spoken by talking heads.
ANCIENT WARS SPARTA EBAY MOVIE
It absolutely captures the storyline of the movie – Xerxes of the Persians attempting to roll a massive army over the stalwart but vastly outnumbered Spartans lead by King Leonidas – without any of the drama or action or intrigue, or anything for that matter.
At least this would be the case if the game didn’t suffer so poorly in comparison. It is a marketing coup to have the spot of default movie tie-in (given that the makers of the movie didn’t see fit to release a game of their own). It vociferously (good SAT word, for those studying!) and firmly announces its desire to be just like every other hero-based swarm-mentality RTS out there with OK graphics, average AI, and mediocre voice acting supporting a very middling plot and presentation.Given the positive response to the recent movie “The 300” you would perhaps, at first blush, believe the makers of AW:S to be some type of grand visionaries. Ancient Wars: Sparta is not one of those. Some of these copycats, either by exhibiting a gripping plotline or superior graphics or perhaps an advanced AI manage to claw their way above the general noise of the pack. This is especially true in the RTS genre, where a single good idea will spawn copycats for years to come. The more games I review, the longer I do it, the more I come to realize that really original games are very few and far between.
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