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User Rating: 6.5 | Ancient Wars: Sparta PC
This is one of the first games I bought without reading or watching a review! It was purely on the title (I had just watched 300 at the time!!!). Was a little disappointed when I saw the initial graphics - below the bar set by Battle For Middle-Earth 2 (which is amazin by the way). The Spartan storyline is okay but alot of battles were taking place in the correct place but in obsecure scenes and being a Spartan fanatic I found this a little strange. The game starts with generic tutorial sort of levels and progresses quite quickly to full blown battles! I enjoyed the mass battles and crushing my enemies but found that it didnt last long enough and that tactics didnt really matter. I found that its basically a numbers game and that if you outnumber your enemy you win every time. The AI I also found quite disappointing as they seem to come straight at you from a fair distance giving you the chance to severely weaken them with your archers before making mincemeat of what is left. However on the positive side the Eygptian and Persian storylins give the game a longer life and I actually preferred to the Spartan storyline especially the Eygptian one! The fact that you can mix and match armour to different classes of soldiers gives you the ability to get the complete army. Overall an above average RTS that can be fun especially in the larger end of the game battles but could have been so more! 
