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Spartan

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Spartan
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8.5 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 13 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: Just Play

Developer: Slitherine Studios

Genre(s): Turn-Based Strategy, Empire Building

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: February 29, 2004

Summary

Spartan is the third in a series of turn-based empire-building strategy games that includes the best-selling Legion and Chariots of War. Spartan focuses on one of the most influential civilisations in the history of mankind – the ancient Greeks, and allows players to choose from 100 nations to lead to victory, including Sparta, renowned for its total dedication to the art of war and that produced the ultimate fighting machine of the ancient world – the Spartan Hoplite; probably most famous for the courageous last stand of 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC. [Just Play]

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80

Total Video Games

Spartan is extraordinary from the perspective of any old warhorse of a strategy player. It has graphical polish, longevity and some well crafted ideas that other developers should take note of!

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79

GameBiz

A refreshing game to play after the waves and waves of strikingly-similar Real-Time and standard Strategy games that have been unleashed over the last couple of years. It brings with it many new ideas and new approaches to the genre.

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72

Computer Games Online RO

Although Spartan is quite complex, it is faulted by some ill design decisions, like the inability to build new cities, or the way battles are fought, to which we must add the mediocre technical department.

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64

GameZone

There are so many areas that this game could have improved upon, such as the graphics and the sound, to make it a better overall game. While the game is fun, there are much better TBS games to spend you hard earned money on.

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60

Computer Games Magazine

Spartan's 3D battles look great, and the freer camera control give you a new perspective on hoplite warfare. [Sept 2004, p.74]

60

Gamers Europe

Considering that Spartan had a core staff of a dozen people and 170 QA personnel means that the game is quite an achievement – Diablo 2 took closer to 2,000 people to create. In that respect it’s a very good game and something Slitherine can be proud of, but other than that it falls short of engaging.

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58

PC Gamer

If you've just taken a course on Greek history, you might appreciate the setting, but for both strategy and visuals, Spartan is very...well, spartan. [Dec 2004, p.106]

50

IGN

The real time stuff is woeful and the turn-based management only has a few elements that can be considered in any way interesting.

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50

Game Chronicles

Underdone graphics and sound that does everything except what it should dampen the already uninspired, copycat gameplay.

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50

Thunderbolt

There are a number of good ideas in Spartan, and though they aren’t particularly well-executed, some of them are fun to tinker around with and try out. But only tinker: Spartan is a slow and boring game that few will enjoy.

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50

Boomtown

If games were right-angled triangles, Pythagoras would teach us that the value present on the 'quality' side would be directly related to the 'design' and 'execution' values on the other two and, without a particularly remarkable presence in either, Spartan is an also-ran.

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40

DailyGame

Careful not to fall asleep.

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33

Computer and Video Games

Limited and uninspiring, Spartan won't satisfy anyone with an inkling of the quality of other games on the market.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

[Anonymous] gave it a9:
taking into account that it was created by less than half a dozen people (visit the company website sometime), this is really phenomanal. The two lacking parts are that one cannot build cities, which is ofset by the fact that it is meant to mimic the area as closely as possible, and the lack of battle-field control.

Dan M. gave it a 10:
This game rocks.

Daz G. gave it a 9:
Yep the MP autsaves every turn, a great game!!

Robin O. gave it a 10:
Multiplayer auto saves each turn.

Peter B. gave it a 9:
Excellent turn based strategy game, much improved by recent patch to improve play-balance issues. Multiplayer has autosave save game facility

John Doe gave it a 7:
No multiplayer save option??

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