![]() Which is where we hit the central question with Spartan: Total Warrior. Expect the number of dead by your hand - not even your allies - to start at a hundred on a slow level, and climb towards five when it gets really bloody. While it doesn't match the base brutality of God of War, in terms of bodycount you manage to rack up scores which would be respectable for a plague. Opening scenes with you as a soldier among dozens in the defence of Sparta are reminiscent of Call of Duty's Russian scenes. Initially playing it is a shock, immediately having a scope which few PS2 games - hell, few games full stop - manage to match. That is, have hundreds of people running around at once. In fact, now reaching from the RTS to the fighter, it has become the Creative Assembly signature way to distinguish its games. Spartan distinguishes itself from the competition in one basic way. And, in a beautifully curt cut-scene, he says something along the lines of "Hey - Romans! Let's slaughter them". The tone of Spartan: Total Warrior is nailed half-way through the first level, when you and your sidekick run into a new area, packed full of Romans warriors. It creates a setting of a greek-style mythological world where Sparta was still a force to be feared when the Romans turned up to anex them (rather than having been in decline for several hundred years, as in the real world). Of course, all that would be harder to turn into a Dynasty Wars meets God of War slasher than just stealing all the good bits from Jason and the Argonauts, throwing them into the air and seeing where they all land. Which doesn't sound that bad, until you realise that "Helots" were the Spartan slave class. Since it's all foggy, there's no need to include other interesting demi-facts about the Spartans, such as the institutionalised homosexuality in Spartan Phalanx barracks or that they actually had a whole month of an open-hunting season on Helots. Against them, we have Greece (cradle of civilisation) and Sparta (its brave defenders, who defeated millions of Persians with three soldiers and a piece of string). It's harder to get away with this with Rome, because we know too much about them - in Spartan's case, Rome is re-created as the fascist bad-guys (which is exactly what they were). In short, they're a hard-man Tabla Rasa for developers to play with. Which turns the historical records we have on Sparta into the equivalent of basing our knowledge of working class London culture on Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. They admired the Spartans because they thought their own culture a little too soft. In fact, the Athenian historians who did write about them tended to actually be sympathisers with the culture - or, rather, fetishisers. At which point, anyone who did GCSE history will be tutting about bias in the sources. That is, their main political and martial rivals. The only records we have are from other cultures looking in. And that's about it, with any certainty.īecause the Spartans weren't big readers, so didn't write down anything themselves. well, we know absolutely sod all about them. But the real reason why we're all going crazy over the Spartans is. And obviously, Greece is the founding culture of western society. Obviously, it's been in loads of films and books, so its imagery we're all familiar with. ![]() I'll tell you the real reason why people are constantly taking great joy over reprocessing Ancient Greece in videogames, and the Spartans specifically. well, it's looking kinda like a movement. When two take from the same period then apply it to the same genre. Because when one game takes from a period and applies it to a genre, it's a singular thing. With the review out of the way, there's plenty of time for a detour into an examination of the postmodernist re-imagining of ancient Greece in modern videogames (a.k.a. Thank you for your understanding.This is a game about hitting people. Please look at the original pictures to get an impression of the content and condition, as this is perceived individually by everyone. Age-related signs of wear may be present. This product is used and the codes included are no longer active as they have either expired or have already been used. Spartan: Total Warrior ( Nintendo GameCube, 2005). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Spartan - Total Warrior (Nintendo Gamecube, 2005) The description of this item has been automatically translated.
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