XB Spartan: Total Warrior
Product Description
In the epic style of "Gladiator" and "Braveheart" you, as a bloodthirsty Spartan warrior, lead the charge with no fear or remorse headlong into massive cinematic battles where your only options are victory or death. In this combat action game, you control "The Spartan". Thrust into dynamic cinematic battles you are just one combatant amongst legions of allies and enemies. Turn the tide of battle with a range of weapons and skills to defeat an overwhelming tide of foes. Grow from novice warrior to awe-inspiring Hero and eventually Mythical Legend.... More >>
- Beautiful Cinematic Environments feature a wide variety of sweeping vistas, weapons and foes that push the power of the console in titanic clashes between mighty armies, blending mythical beasts and legendary monsters into the fray. Brutal combat meets epic warfare on the battlefields of the ancient world as you fight for your life, your freedom and your honor.
- Battle in real Roman military units, against skeleton armies and even face classic mythological creatures
- Spectacular new power moves - Acquire new more powerful weapons and armor and earn favor and powers from the gods
- Mission Structures have multiple objectives - Escorting, capturing, destruction, discovery, and survival
- Experience pure combat action with friends, in Arena Mode
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is the absurd storyline. The game mixes actual historic figures (such as Crassus, Tiberius, and Sejanus) with mythical ones (such as Castor, Pollux, and Medusa) without much regard to historical fact. This would be fine except that I have come to expect a lot more from CA. The game should be entitled Spartan: Total Anachronism.
I would gladly overlook that fact if the game was, erm, actually fun to play. Thats the problem, because Spartan: Total Warrior, for all its gee-whiz graphics and speedy gameplay, is missing on a critical gameplay element: fun. The manual talks a big game about the “tactical” elements of the game, but your tactics in large part consist of button mashing at location A, sprinting to more button mashing at location B, then rushing back to location A for (you guessed it) MORE button mashing.
On top of that, Spartan Total Warrior offers you numerous opportunities to exercise your abilities to hunt in vain for small glowing circles in order to activiate certain game effects. Want to fire a catapult? Find the glowy. Want to dump oil? Find the glowy? Want to spear a gorgon? You guessed it, find a glowy. This wouldn’t be so bad, except that the glowy is hidden away under 30 enemy clones, you are never shown where its located prior to the game start, you can’t just *look* for it without being swarmed, and the game will not permit camera movement while paused. Annoyed yet? I sure am.
Do you like the idea of acquiring interesting loot with which to squash your enemies? Too bad, because Spartan Total: Warrior offers only a handful of remarkably similar items with which to dispatch your foes. Do I want the weapon with the white effect, or the red effect. Gee, some how I don’t seem to care.
Oh, and just to make sure the last element of fun is squeezed out, Spartan: Total Warrior is kind enough to impose restrictive time limits. When are game developers going to learn that timed levels are stupid? What is this Super Mario Brothers? Thanks but I’ll take actual suspense (like when you find out the main twist in KOTOR, for example) to simulated expense any day of the week.
Meh, this game just falls flat. It simply isn’t any fun. The idea is cool, and the graphics are good, but that is about the extent of the game’s positive attributes. If you really want to slaughter hordes of enemies in a quasi historical world (and I use that term extremely loosely), just stick with Dynasty Warriors and the like. If you just want to destroy your foes and have fun in the process, then perhaps try Return of the King. Either way PLEASE PLEASE RENT THIS GAME BEFORE YOU BUY IT. Otherwise you could end up like me and have a $50 dollar game you will never play collecting dust on your DVD rack.
Rating: 2 / 5
This game was so over hyped it even got a behind the scenes show on g4tv. Now I wanted 2 play this game cuz well, I being an xbox owner, wanted a good romp like god of war since I already finished ninja gaiden. This game leaves me feeling; like something is missing… it could have been so much more. Let me give u my reviews.
Graphics 7/10:They focused on cramming a huge amount of enemies on screen at the same time which is cool sometimes but when u look at the cut scenes and bland areas. YUCK is this really xbox?. But it’s not totally horrid.
Sound 7.5/10: When I listen to the excellence god of war soundtrack and ninja gaiden’s soundtrack I can’t help but think the corny rock tracks playing here was jus tacked on. The weapon sounds are nice clangs and clashes. Then we get to the voice acting um no no this simply will not do. These have got 2 be the worse directed voice acting ever.
Game play: Well as much as they hyped it 2 be it’s just a basic hack and slasher, which is fine if u like that genre. The weapons in the game although are pretty cool… they jus don’t seem 2 carry any real weight with them. I mean when I play the other top 2 action adventure games, ninja gaiden and god of war I really do feel like I’m causing bodily harm 2 folks. The action in Spartan jus feels real muted. The tons of enemies are cool…but when they all surround u alone and u can’t find a power up it becomes frustrating.
Control 5/10: The controls are adequate u got ur light slash and heavy. But The bow control is totally wack!! The camera is controlled by the right thumb stick which I personally don’t like 2 much cuz it can become disorienting. The overall control feels like it’s stuck between pc mouse control and console controller style… I don’t like it that much.
All in all if it seems like I keep bringing up Ninja Gaiden and God of War…. I must use them 2 compare, because those are now the measuring stick by which these games will all be compared, ESPECIALLY Ninja Gaiden. I understand they were trying the huge battles and what not…which I think is real cool. But it could have been better in other departments.
Rating: 3 / 5
Previous reviewers have hit most of the major descriptive points: lots of warriors, average graphics, simplistic objectives, etc. But one thing I think needs to be stressed is the *repetitive* nature of this game. You will find yourself seemingly fighting the same battle over and over and over again, sometimes because you died but mostly because there just isn’t any variety in the game play. You just keep on fighting, surrounded by warriors and mashing buttons in an extremely limited combo system. And the characters will keep yelling the same lines at you over and over and over, until even a patient player can’t help but be frustrated. (If I hear “They’re attacking the gate!” one more time, the game disc might end up in my fireplace.)
Another annoying thing is the AI… for example, you will be charged with a simple objective such as “protect the prisoners,” and then the unarmed prisoners will run headlong into an army of enemy soldiers as if they are unaware that the soldiers are trying to kill them. Often, whether or not you advance to the next objective/level is half button-mashing and half dumb luck.
That’s not to say this game is *completely* terrible… there is a certain excitement that comes with the speed and simplicity with which you can dispatch your enemies. But, after slaying your 1,000th poorly-rendered enemy clone, it won’t take long before you tire of the repetitive game play.
The bottom line: if at all possible, rent this game or play it at a friend’s house; you won’t be sorry that it isn’t in your collection.
Rating: 2 / 5
Spartan was a game that was under-appreciated. While It’s Graphics were a Sad PS2 port, the story was very well written. If You like fighting tons of people a la Dynasty Warriors, but with a better story, then this is the Game for You. This game is one that should be in alot of people’s collections.
Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t know what is with some of the people who wrote reviews for this game. They over analyze the game is just plain fun
Rating: 5 / 5