Good Idea for a game, addictive gameplay and is unterrated.
User Rating: 8.5 | Shadow of Rome PS2
Gameplay: In this game Julius Ceasaer and been murdered and Octavianus is very suspicus of his Uncles death. Then Agrrippa's father is blamed for it and is going to be exicuted but his mother is exicuted first. So Agrippa has now have to become a Gladiator and works for Sextus in the fighting in the Arena. You get to play as two characters Agrippa and Octavenus. Agrippa fights in the arena and after a round or two it switches over to Octavianus where he sneaks around the senate house and look around other places to try to solve the truth about what really murdered Julius. Going around putting on descises is kinda like the hitman series and you can distract people and hit people over the head with jugs and such. Though it's not bad but it's not the best part of the game. Now for the Galditorial fights, they are really good. They are bloody and you can hack of people heads and limbs and blood and guts will start gushing out. Aswell you can break arms and legs which is pretty neat and you get a number of pretty cool moves. You get a veriaty of weapons to use from the Gladius to the Huge ass Maces.
Graphics: The Graphics in the game are not bad at all, they are very nicley done and the cut scence are very well done like from a movie. Quite Realistc I found. Lots of blood and gore which I like. :)
Sound: The sound was not bad the soundtrack was good for this roman themed game.The Voice acting is not bad but some of the diologe from the main chracters is a little cheesy/repetative.
Value: The replay Value for this is game is great. You can play this a number of times trying to get the diffrent tofies and such and also you can go try to unlock some other stuff like the costumes for both Aggrippa and Octavianus. Anyways this is a great game that is really little media attention and is underratted. I give this game 8.5 out of 10 go out there and get this game if you don't allready have it.
