Ancient Wars: Sparta has some nice touches in the way of animation but is just not up to scratch.
User Rating: 5.7 | Ancient Wars: Sparta PC
I have to say after watching the movie the 300 I was intrigued by the setting as I imagine would be the main selling point for this game, when I purchased ancient wars I was not expecting to compare it to the latest strategy games released this month such as Command and conquer 3 or Supreme commander but ok a strategy game set in 500 BC it could be a nice change. As I started to play the game from the campaign missions sadly I found them to be poorly constructed, being very slow paced, the graphics were pretty average which could maybe be compared to stronghold Legends, I wasted away 3 hours on the first few missions, some of the dialogue in the game were slightly boring and unimaginative. Still optimistic about the game I tried a skirmish with 3 races to choose from Persia, Sparta and Egypt and thought that maybe once I had a army to play with the game would be a little more fun but that just was not the case the time span of the game is so slow that it took me roughly 2 hours to get setup with a small battalion of men. Seen as I was based on a separate island from the AI I had to advance a lot before I could have the technology to invade another island. Good points on this game are pretty limited but could be good additions to any strategy game, when building machines such as boats and catapults it is pretty neat that you can see them being constructed piece by piece, the destruction of buildings and walls are also well animated. My conclusion is that the game could have been so much more the few good points it had would just not be enough for me to recommend this game.
