I welcome you to the barbaric ancient world sport that is Spartacus Legends. Perhaps you’re thinking, “Wonderful, another 2D side-scroller fighting game, I’ll pass.” If you happen to feel that way, I encourage you to reserve all judgment until you’ve had the privilege of impaling your enemy with a virtual sword. Trust me, it’s rather satisfying.
Spartacus Legends is impressive albeit the game’s initial server problems; the way it plays, the way it looks, and how it sounds. In terms of aesthetics, the game is quite polished from the subtle details of the arena to the blood spatter dispersed after a clean slice. You’ve been warned; this game contains blood, and liberal amounts of it.
The sounds of Spartacus Legends provide a robust ambience that enhances the intensity and realism of each battle. The sound of a sword striking a shield radiates throughout the arena while sending a proverbial chill down my spine. Once that subsides, the progressive crowd chants will attempt to persuade you to execute your vulnerable opponent. No one wants to disappoint an anxious crowd, right? Give the people what they want! Exchanges like this are satisfying yet brutally savage at the same time. For obvious reasons, I’ve never experienced a real gladiatorial battle in the Roman Coliseum – but after playing as a surrogate warrior for multiple hours – perhaps now I have a better understanding.
One of the most appealing – and rather startling – aspects of Spartacus Legends is it won’t cost you anything but your time. Yes, you heard that correctly. Unlike most games with a free-to-play price tag, the game contains substance and abstains from regulating the player to micro transactions in order to enjoy it. The more you play and the more victories you achieve, the more your character will progress.
Furthermore, Spartacus Legends is devoid of a storyline and instead places emphasis on conquering congruent districts as means of establishing your character. As said character continues to level up, new weapons and armor are available for the player to utilize. However, keep in mind that equipping bulkier accessories such as heavy armor and warhammers dramatically reduce agility, speed, and movement but subsequently inflict higher amounts of damage. In comparison, opting for lighter equipment enhances movement and striking speed but significantly reduces damage. These mechanics help foster character balance which prevent any particular character setup from obliterating the rest. Parity, my friends.
In conclusion, there’s no reason for you not to download Spartacus Legends. After all, it’s a free-to-play title that exceeds all expectations and empowers you to feel like an extremely muscular gladiator (Maybe someday). Aside from the occasional server malfunctions and quirky character responsiveness, the game contains simplistic button mapping that actually makes bridging together combos a feasible possibility – even for an amateur player. (Talking to you, Mortal Kombat)
So give it a try and enjoy what the world of Spartacus Legends has to offer. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go do some pushups.
The Games as a Service Movement, a collection of powerful (they count Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Capcom, EA among their members) loosely organized game companies and corporations would like to take ownership away from players and have players instead pay for games continuously (a lot of us first heard this term in Cliff Bleszinski’s famous blog in which he defends pay to win games, which you can read here). Their existence, the fact of the name they’ve chosen for themselves is worrisome in-and-of-itself, but, make no mistake, they plan on turning video games into services, thus if they got their way, it would mean an end to game ownership.
While I do enjoy a bout of 'Clash of Clans' on my Android, it will never replace true gaming experiences found of PC/PS4/X1. Games such as Uncharted or Halo cannot be replicated on mobile phones because of many issues, and not just graphics. Controls and battery life are the two biggest concerns in my eyes as something like Uncharted would be impossible to play with on-screen buttons and battery life would drain in an instant
Yes please I love choice as long as they don't take away big budget paid for game.
I personally would love more games like war frame, war thunder, DC universe and planetside.
Just because it makes the game easier if you give devs money it doesn't mean you have too.
If they adopt that model completely they will not be considered core games will they. Big Powerful Publishers are smart, they will keep offering separate high profile core games for us as well as casual games for a more casual mainstream audience. Keeping the money coming from all types of customers.
Hopefully as gamers we will not have that model pushed on us!
I am happy to buy a full game pay once and thats it! I do not want a limited amount of turns or matches before having to pay to unlock more. That kind of future is terrifying!
I refuse to support any game like that! although some MMO's that are free to play are very borderline
Well if they "push" it on us we don't have to buy into it. They won't hold a gun to our heads making us accept this. If enough refuse to buy into it then they lose sales, which means money. Money talks you know what walks. Microsoft tried to push always online DRM with X1. Because there was so much push back they dropped that policy. The real power is with the consumer, the only question is will they be smart enough to know the scam and reject it.
Subscriptions to game related services make more revenue than the traditional model we know and love. If the industry decides it can make more money with less of us it will. Those of us who do not buy in run the risk of the industry evolving without us, if it does and we do want to game then yes we will be forced to bite the bullet or play older games on formats past... which is not a market that will last forever.
Ubisoft has announced the start of Tournaments mode for Spartacus Legends, which is a new PvP battle mode where players will compete for the title of Champion of Capua.
Ubisoft has revealed some impressive statistics for the free-to-play Spartacus Legends, a title which – despite some teething problems with servers at launch – has become the fastest growing free-to-play videogame on consoles. Spartacus Legends is available for download on PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360.
This game isn't that bad for a free game but its a lot of grinding for the best armor. I like your review because you appreciate that it's free unlike a lot of people, all this game asks for is your time not money and still I see critics ripping this game apart, ITS FREE PEOPLE! What are they expecting a F2P goty game?