Unfortunately, the game refuses to let you play on a resolution that doesn't fit your monitor's aspect ratio, so despite what size you may want to play it on, you can't. Graphically, Ancient Wars: Sparta doesn't look bad at all. I also did a little bit of research on the Internet and found that most of the events in the game actually did take place, and Ancient Wars: Sparta does a good job at chronologically displaying those events. I know a little about the Battle of Thermopylae and the events of its time, and was able to point out certain events and scenarios in the game that were historically accurate. In terms of historical accuracy, Ancient Wars: Sparta seems to do pretty well. While these features certainly do not create a vast amount of diversity between the three factions, it helps to ensure that when you're the Persian campaign, it feels like you're playing the Persian campaign. Each faction has unique heroes, such as Xerxes for the Persians and King Leonidas for the Spartans, as well as unique units, such as Immortals for the Persians. While unit customization is exciting yet lacking in terms of variety, other cool little features set apart the three different factions. This can reduce the build time and cost of your units, but still takes time and can be tedious you must send a worker to the corpse of your enemy, who picks up the equipment, and then must walk all the way back to your base. Another cool feature that goes hand in hand with the customization is the option to pick up equipment from your fallen enemies. The downside is that Spartas, Persians, and Egyptians really aren't unique at all they can be customized the same way and consist of light, medium, and heavy units.
Each of the three campaigns has a "Light," "Medium," and "Heavy" unit, which can be customized with various weapons and armor. Without a doubt, the title's most innovative and exciting feature is the ability to customize your units with different weapons and equipment. Based on his voice in Ancient Wars: Sparta, he sounds just like my neighbor Ed, who sells furniture for a living. The voiceovers were horrible, and after watching "300," I thought of King Leonidas as being strong and heroic. I often skipped the cut scenes, which were very choppy and boring. Apart from multiple scenarios for each campaign to help tell the story, the game also features cinematics and cut scenes using in-game assets. I found that these resources accumulated very slowly, and I often found myself sitting around and waiting for resources to accumulate before creating each unit.Īs far as storyline goes, Ancient Wars: Sparta tries its best to follow the historic events around 480 BC. The resources are gold, lumber, and food gold is obtained by creating gold mines on ore veins, lumber by harvesting nearby trees, and food by constructing farms. No matter which campaign you choose to play - Sparta, trying to hold and retaliate against the Persians Persia, rising to power under the rule of King Xerxes or Egypt, attempting to escape the slavery of the Persians - they generally have the same type of buildings (Basic, Offensive, and Defenses). Unfortunately, the title seems to try and capitalize on the era's recent popularity, rather than being a truly spectacular RTS game in its own right.Īncient Wars: Sparta plays like your typical RTS game: Build a variety of structures, including defenses, amass a small group of units or a large army, and wipe out your enemy.
Ancient Wars: Sparta is a real-time strategy game about the events during this time, playable through the eyes of Greece, Egypt, and Persia.
#ANCIENT WARS SPARTA PERSIAN MOVIE#
This battle has become very popular recently due to the hit movie "300," based on Frank Miller's graphic novel depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Despite their defeat, this gave time for the rest of Greece to amass their army to battle against the Persians. On the third and final day, all but 2,000 Greeks were dismissed, and the Persians put an end to the Greek allies. Vastly outnumbered (300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 6,000 various other Greeks against about 2.5 million), the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history's most famous last stands. In 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece.
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