Numerous glitches, poor spell animations and average graphics abound.

User Rating: 5.1 | Gladius XBOX
I like the combat system in this game, though the amount of glitches and average looking graphics in the game hardly make it a buy.

To begin with most of the side quests do not work, the merchants usually fail to initiate the conversation options which lead to them or they give out the quests but some step in the process goes wrong and it's never able to be finished.

The graphics while not horrible are average, they look no better than the cinematics from pc games of two thousand. The spell animations in the game are however horrible to look at, it really gives you the sense the magic classes were an after thought.

The sound while working most of the time occasionally lags behind the actions taking place on screen, or never occurs at all. It's common place to view someone block an attack, then hear the sound several seconds later.

The combat system seems solid enough, though it also has it's quirks. Namely with heavy classes, where criticals on the bar sometimes fail to register as such and are dodged or blocked by the enemy even though the meter marker is completely covering the red zone.

It's an entertaining game due to it's gladitorial storyline and length of most battles, though it has too many problems to really be more than a rental.