Spartan Total Warrior

by Sega Of America, Inc.

Product Features

• Beautiful Cinematic Environments feature a wide variety of sweeping vistas, weapons and foes that push the power of the console in titanic clashes between mighty armies, blending mythical beasts and legendary monsters into the fray.
• Battle in real Roman military units, against skeleton armies and even face classic mythological creatures
• Spectacular new power moves - Acquire new more powerful weapons and armor and earn favor and powers from the gods
• Mission Structures have multiple objectives - Escorting, capturing, destruction, discovery, and survival
• Experience pure combat action with friends, in Arena Mode

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0009PCQD0
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,838 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Spartan: Total Warrior puts the player in control of a heroic warrior. Feel yourself engulfed

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Darn Cool, only Slightly Flawed: A-, January 2, 2006

By 

The Cool Guy (The City, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Spartan Total Warrior (Video Game)

Spartan: Total Warrior is a game that is quite cool. You play as The Spartan, a nameless warrior who is favored by Ares, the Greek God of War.

While the concept is quite cool, the game itself is basically pretty mindless. It mostly consists of just running around slaughtering everybody. Variation in this is accomplished by forcing you to dart around and hit a switch every now and then.

The combat itself never gets old. You face hordes of enemies in the thick of battle in pretty much neverending waves. It is quite a rush to charge into a swarm of enemies. And it is even more fun when you activate rage and power attacks.

As you advance through the game, your character's appearance gradually changes to look cooler and cooler. You get a simulated form of "Leveling Up" in the form of "Favor of the Gods" tokens. The bosses that you have to beat in the game are extremely challenging. But once you kill a boss, you can then use his/her weapon from that point on. Weapons include the Twin Blades of Athena, the Medusa Shield, and many more.

Combat is rushed and very fun. It is sort of like Gauntlet in a way, but much more realistic-feeling. You do have ranged attacks in the form of your bow and arrows, but it is more fun to just charge into a horde of enemies and start wasting 'em. To survive you not only have to know how to use your various attacks, but you also need to know how to block with your shield. Your shield is mainly used to sweep back a crowd of enemies and clear out some space so that you won't be COMPLETELY surrounded.

When you do some violent kills such as decapitations or horrendous mass-killings via power attacks, carnage numbers flash on the side of the screen. The numbers don't mean much that I can tell, other than telling you how many you have killed. But when you get the number high enough, it seems that the god Ares starts commentating in the background.

That is one of the really cool parts of this game, when Ares speaks. Believe me, it is more than a little bit disconcerting when you are finishing off enemy after enemy after enemy and you suddenly hear the deep, booming voice of Ares say, "Send their souls to me!", "Blood! I need more blood!", or "I will drown the world in chaos!" Ares really starts up when you man the ballistas and start mowing down giant hordes of Romans.


PROS:

-Novel concept, executed quite well for the most part.

-Fairly good story, with nice graphics and introduction for each level.

-Good play control. Rage attacks take advantage of the analog nature of the Gamecube's shoulder buttons. This takes some getting used to but works very well once you get used to it.

-Some pretty awesome visuals at times.

-Very challenging bosses that are fun to fight.

-Good secondary weapons that you can switch back and forth between at any time after you have obtained them.

-Good music. I liked the background music of this game, which sort of goes techno in the middle of fights. It just kind of adds to the frantic pace of the killings.

-Good camera control. You can get a really high overhead perspective, or zoom in way up-close to see all the beheadings.

-Good checkpoint locations, good save system.

-Simply a very fun game.


CONS:

-Uses the highly simplistic and much over-used "go here and hit this switch" gameplay.

-The story is not as deep as it could have been.

-Graphics are quite good at times but you quickly notice that each identical soldier class looks (and moves) exactly alike. This is understandable considering that the game engine is having to handle hundreds of soldiers at once, but it is still hard to shake the feeling that everyone is wearing exactly the same uniform and are just all clones of each other.

-Instructions are a bit lacking. This is not that big of a deal, but I think it kind of stinks that the instructions don't even tell you that power attacks won't work at all until you get the Twin Blades of Athena, and they won't work with your normal weapon set until you get the Medusa Shield.

-Statistics at the end of each level (time and how many killed) were cool but I wish there was more information. Also, I am glad that you can replay levels but I wish it would display how many unlockables are still left to unlock in each level.

-Fairly crappy unlockables in general. All you get is some concept art and a few items to use in the Arena mode, which ain't all that great.

-No multiplayer. This may be understandable considering the huge amounts of enemies involved in this game, but I personally would have liked a multiplayer mode. Multiplayer always adds a lot to a game's replay value, and it is kind of disappointing that we don't have any here. A good multiplayer mode would have been a split-screen co-op mode. Oh, well.

-Can get a little bit old after a while. I don't play this game all at once. I play a level, then play something else. I think if I tried to beat this game all at once, I would probably get kind of sick of it. Better to make it last.

Bottom line, this is not a deep game or the most involving. Though it is still a VERY GOOD game. I spent $30 on it, and I don't regret it. We don't have enough Spartan/Roman/Gladiator games for the Gamecube as is, and this is a pretty good entry. I am not going to say this is the one of the most awesome games ever made, because I feel like it somehow could have been more than it is. But it is still a good game and I recommend buying it when the price comes down a bit.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS SO AWESOME, December 29, 2005

A Kid's Review

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Spartan Total Warrior (Video Game)

I'v always wanted a video game that was based on the Greek days. I really love playing the games with swords, spears, bows, and more. Once I saw this game I wanted it very bad. I asked for it for Christmas. When I opened it I was very happy, playing it when we were done opening the other gifts. When I played it, it was so much fun. You are a Spartan warrior who is trying to stop the Romans from taking over your city. Not only do you fight the Romans, you fight things such as Minotaurs, Hydras, Ladons, Barbarians, skeletons, and more. As the game progresses, you get these new weapons and go from warrior, to hero, to legend. I would recommend this game. Don't even waste your time renting it, just go ahead and buy it!

4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My 11-year old loves it, March 27, 2006

By 

Gordon M. Wagner (Suburbia) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Spartan Total Warrior (Video Game)

From my grown-up point of view the gameplay is frenetic, I can barely keep track of what's happening. The Spartan has near-superhuman strength and stamina. The battles are intense. My kid LOVES this game, which is all I'm concerned with. It's somewhat violent, but nothing objectionable. Overall I'm impressed with the design of hte game, the graphics are really spectacular. But I've learned that all that really matters about video games is whether or not my kids find play value in them, and this one gets TWO THUMBS UP -- great one-player game.