A pleasant surprise for people who like gladiators, strategy games, or both.

User Rating: 7.5 | Gladius GC
By Homedawggydog | Review Date:
Story: 6 A fairly good (but cliched) story with prophetic princess and ancient gods dissassembling the peace of a fragile world

Graphics: 7 Even today these graphics are quite good for a last-gen game, animations are solid, environments are tolerable, and character models tend to have slight (but noticeable) differences

Sound: 8 A very well implemented and played orchestral track really helps to amp up the action, sound effects are average, and though dialogue is fairly dry the voice acting is excellent.

Controls: 9 The movement system can be a tad confusing (allies may randomly stop moving to their destination) but other than that the controls are stellar: using the timed action bar to grant penalties or bonuses is genius.

Entertainment: 7 While almost everything works the way it should, this game cant escape the grinding that has to be done to receive enough tournament requirements and some fights become almost impossible to the point where the game gets repetitive

Overall: 7.4

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