Factsheet
TITLE: Ancient Wars: Sparta
Genre: Real Time Strategy (RTS)
ESRB RATING: M - Mature
Platforms: PC
Developer: World Forge
Publisher: Eidos, Inc.
Release Date: Spring 2007
Ancient Wars: Sparta recreates the epic history of Spartans, Persians and Egyptians in 3 vast campaigns. Fight for supremacy in the Eastern Mediterranean, using each nation‘s specific powers in large scaled battles. Equip your soldiers with weapons of your choice and with the weapons captured from slain enemies. Use environmental effects like wind and fire to your strategic advantage. Let your workers gather recourses for a thriving economy, while you upgrade your defenses with manned city walls and strengthen your army with battleships, siege weapons and cavalry. Ancient Wars: Sparta offers RTS fans all their favorite gameplay with a vast variety of new and innovative features.
Features:
- Gripping storyline based on realistic historical settings around 500 to 450 BC
- Play three different nations to conquer the ancient world
- Command armies with a huge variety of units, ships, chariots and siege weapons
- 27 challenging missions in beautifully rendered full 3D landscapes and environments
- Unique unit design: Arm your warriors yourself from a vast choice of weapons
- Use powerful heroes with different roles and abilities
- Integral use of natural elements like wind and fire including realistic physics effects
- Experienced team lead by German “The Settlers” veteran Torsten Hess
GAME FEATURES
Ancient Wars: Sparta is a real-time strategy game in which you control the might of Spartan warriors, the Persian army or Egyptian Pharaohs.
Battles and Formations
- Arrange Your Troops in Formations: Your troops have three different formations: line, column and free formation.
- Assign Battle Stances: There are four different stances for your warriors, ships or for a stationary weapon: aggressive, defensive, hold the ground and passive. The units will have a defensive stance by default.
- Recover Enemy Weapons and Vehicles To Equip Your Troops: If you collect weapons from units vanquished on the battlefield, you can then equip your units with these collected weapons. The weapons must be researched beforehand. You can also take over enemy weapons and vehicles.
- Lay Siege to Great Cities: You can also produce different siege weapons and vehicles depending on the race, such as Siege Towers, and war animals.
Heroes
- Fight with Your Own Heroes: These are special characters that are recognisable by their golden glow. They are both better equipped and have more hit points than normal warriors. In certain scenarios it is important to keep these units alive in order to complete the objective successfully.
Ships
- Create Your Own Navy: You need a Dock to build a ship, except for Persians, who can build ships directly on the beach. There are three different types: a light but fast battleship, a spacious barge, and a heavy battleship.
- Epic Naval Combat: You can embark warriors on ships, but the number of passengers depends on the type of the ship. If you embark certain warriors such as Archers this may be beneficial as they can attack the enemy from fairly long distances. Another way to take out enemy ships is to deploy long-range weapons, or just ram it and sink it, but your ship will also suffer damage this way.
- Board And Capture Enemy Vessels: You can board an enemy ship after combat, and if you have done away with enemy crew on board, you can take the ship into your own fleet.
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