Spears, for example, are more effective when battling mounted units, while swords excel at defeating footsoldiers. This feature allows you to mass-produce cheap infantry to deal with a sudden strike or replace unexpected losses, while constructing powerful, more expensive soldiers during lulls in the action, each customized with a number of ranged or melee weapons each with unique properties. Though this is commonplace in modern turn-based titles, and even tactical real-time ones, it's an uncommon thing to see in a strategic-level RTS (though it's definitely a bright spot). There's your Age of Empires element the Warcraft III bit comes from the inclusion of historical figures, notably the Spartan king Leonidas, as “heroes” that become more powerful as they gain combat experience.Īs for more mundane soldiers, infantry are built from customizable “templates” and their equipment is unlocked through research. Right off the bat, Sparta loses points for historical inaccuracy I doubt the armies of Sparta, Persia, or Egypt constructed a small city every time they went on campaign.
What I got was more like Age of Empires meets Warcraft III, with a sprinkling of ancient Greece for flavour. Now, I came into this expecting something like Rome: Total War, a tactical-level RTS interspersed with turn-based empire management. While this model was what made the genre great, Sparta's core gameplay is essentially a giant step backwards to the late 1990's, but with better graphics. It's a very basic, cut-and-dry RTS of Ye Olde Schoole: Build a base, collect Food/Wood/Gold, build an army, attack another army. Ancient Wars: Sparta doesn't really bring anything new to the RTS genre. Something like Supreme Commander’s sheer scale that lets you zoom all the way out to see the entire battlefield, or Warcraft III's blend of RTS and RPG elements, or the fully three-dimensional playing field that Homeworld became known for. These days, any Real-Time-Strategy title needs something to set itself apart from the competition. It's a case where the whole is less than the sum of its parts, probably due to the fact that most of the parts are quite dated." "While Sparta may look nice, it feels as though somebody took great elements from all over the RTS genre and put them all together in one game.
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