If you've got some ranged units and some melee units, that's about as complex as you can get. There are very few real tactical strategies used when making your way through a map. Each of the campaigns comes with a variety of missions but all of them devolve into simply massing units and attacking. Unfortunately they're compressed to hell and back and look terrible when playing on decent sized monitor. The stories in each campaign are told through pre-compressed cutscenes that use in-game assets. The game presents three campaigns following the Spartans as they unite and then fight the Persians, Egyptians as they struggle to gain a life out from under the crushing boot of King Xerxes, and finally the Persians and Xerxes rise to power and ambition. The conflict between the Greeks and the Persians of this time has become legendary thanks to the famed battle of Thermopylae where 300 Spartans (in reality they were accompanied by a couple thousand more troops from around Greece) held a narrow passage against an army of Persians nearly one million strong. Even one of the most interesting ideas in the game that allows players to outfit their own armies with different types of weapons and armor suffers because of the lack of focused units with purpose.Īncient Wars: Sparta takes place during the period of Xerxes and Leonidas. Combat is dull and devoid of many of the tactical trickeries that we see in many other real-time strategy titles and the campaigns, while occasionally interesting, don't provide a consistent stream of entertainment.
This is a game we've all played before in virtually every aspect. Unfortunately, the recently released Ancient Wars: Sparta isn't going to help promote much fascination with the time period.
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With the release of the movie 300, Spartans rekindled a glorious (if warped) life in the general population's imagination.