Разработчик: Creative Storm Entertainment
Описание
A Potential Scenario
You’re almost out of money. Two more days and you will no longer be able to pay your staff or gladiators. The fight scheduled today will draw exceptionally massive crowds, meaning the fight purse will be bountiful and the opportunity to place a large volume of bets will be high. One problem though: your top fighter is fatigued from his last fight and has a nagging shoulder strain. Plus he has a history of concussions, so it’s fair to say he will not be at full strength if you put him in the arena. But he’s the best you’ve got. The rest of your gladiators are rookies yet; still working with your trainers and far too inexperienced to send into the crucible just yet.
The next fight is a week away and poorly hyped. You cannot wait that long.
If you were of an evil disposition, you could execute your top fighter instead and seize his life savings; with the fight purses you have shared with him through his career, he has amassed a lot of gold. It could keep you going for a month or two - maybe more. Something to consider.
Or if you find that distasteful, you could go to the money lenders instead. But their interest rates have been high these last few days: 30% or more. You could finance present operations with that – but you would suffer in the longer term.
So maybe you should send your top fighter into the arena. He is bruised up and fatigued – but he also is ranked 3rd overall by the so-called experts and pundits of Leptis Magnus, the current city you reside in. You know he is one of the best and might still have a good chance at pulling out a win.
Or he could lose his life.
What do you do?
What Is It?
Age of Gladiators is a single-player strategy/business management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome.
Hire scouts to scour the provinces for potential prospects – once you have recruited your gladiators, you will need to manage their morale and personality while equipping them for battle in the arenas. Recruit support staff, upgrade your stables, partake in side missions, and manage the wealth and reputation of your business as it grows each day.
As your fighters win battles and increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to focus their abilities by spending attribute and expertise points. Compete, trade, and interact with other in-game bosses as you work your way up from the starting provinces in Africa to the grand coliseum of Rome herself!
Features:
- Gladiators are born with their own dynamically generated attributes (strength, agility, stamina, dexterity, reflexes, intelligence, and health), weapon specialties, and personalities. It is up to you to hire scouts to locate the best prospects available for recruitment.
- Manage your stable of gladiators carefully – their morale, greed, injuries, fatigue, and more must be taken into account before sending them to battle.
- The physicality of your gladiators will increase or decrease with age, depending on if they are in their prime or declining.
- Fame system: as your gladiators gain glory from battle, they will become more widely recognized and adored by the crowds. Win enough battles and they may even get voted into the gladiatorial hall of fame after they retire (or die).
- Watch as your fighters climb the all-time records list for wins, kills, and fame - all held by retired and still-active legends in the arena.
- As your gladiators level up, they gain points to spend on their attributes and expertise. Expertise allows you to build and customize your fighter according to their appropriate strengths.
- Purchase, sell, or trade fighters with opposing bosses.
- Rob treasuries, kidnap enemy fighters, assassinate your debt holders and more with the quest system. Increase the odds of success by sending gladiators on the mission as well.
- Search for deals on weapons, armor, and money loans on the marketplace.
- Hire staff such as scouts, doctors, trainers and blacksmiths to help your gladiators achieve victory. Your staff will gain experience each day they are employed.
- Upgrade your stable by improving its food, bedding, shelter, and more.
- Strive to become the wealthiest individual in the entire Roman republic. There are quick and underhanded ways to make money, but your reputation and fighter’s morale may suffer as a result.
- Receive taunting letters from opposing bosses as well as various other messages from your fighters, staff members, and different characters as you progress through the game.
- Rename your gladiators in order to increase your attachment toward them.
- Bet for or against your gladiator based on the odds generated by bookmakers in-game.
- Fight purses and betting is based on the hype associated with each match. The greater the hype, the more lucrative the fight purse and betting market will be - but the opposition will also be tougher.
- Each game is dynamically generated and different each time.
Other
Age of Gladiators is a twist on sports front office games like Out Of The Park Baseball or the Football Manager series. To continue the analogy, it was designed for people more interested in the strategy behind building up teams and players as a general manager rather than running the games tactically as coach. As well, the strategy element should appeal to fans of Paradox and other franchises in that genre.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
- Processor: Dual-core 1.8GHz or equivalent processor
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
- Storage: 330 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
- Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with 1GB memory
- Additional Notes: Best Resolutions: 1366 x 768 or higher
Отзывы пользователей
Age of Gladiators is a management game featuring gladiators. The learning curve is quite steep. Patience and careful management of financial resources are certainly key. There are three important factors: training and building a high-quality staff, event sponsorship, and recruiting new promising gladiators. You need to start very slowly because the management costs are very high. In the early stages, recovery times are long, so it is wise to rotate 3-4 gladiators. In the intermediate stages, sponsorship becomes crucial, as it should be continuous to ensure regular matches, almost every day. This way, you can develop many profiles at once and be competitive at all difficulty levels. If done manually, managing the skill points and attributes of the gladiators can become quite challenging and boring when you have more than 10 gladiators. The fact that you must reach Rome and work your way up from smaller fighting arenas makes the team's growth engaging and compelling. Well-balanced and motivating achievements. The game becomes really fun once you understand the mechanics. It can be frustrating for those new to the genre because of the steep learning curve.
I love gladiator games and tried a whole bunch of simulators, though to be honest, there aren't too many. This one is one of my favourites as I really enjoyed the challenge and the grind to the stop felt satisfying. Would recommend a try.
Good game to play that is fun, however once you understand how to win, it becomes a little simplistic/repetitive.
Very good artwork throughout, and the gladiator theme has been implemented well, but it is simply too easy to win.
If you are a fan of ancient history, or enjoyed the film Gladiator, definitely get this game. It will certainly keep you entertained for atleast afew hours. There are alot of cool things you will probably enjoy.
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I read somewhere people were struggling in how to start this game, or how to win. I will give afew pointers.
Starting is the hardest part of the game funnily enough, but once you get settled, it will be almost impossible for you to lose. I just completed the game with 94 million in the bank.
Maximus! Maximus!
Its a simple clicker game that can be challenging for the first play-through, but when you go for Agility and Reflexes basically no opponent can defeat your gladiators.
I like the simplicity of the gladiator level ups and inventory, I think for this game it is optimal. The only thing I would like to see is the ability to send multiple gladiators to fight on a given day. For example, "Massive" events could allow you to send lets say 5 gladiators to fight, "Strong" event could be 3 gladiators and the rest could be 1 just like now.
Visuals and music are spot on!
Such a good idea for a game but not executed that well sadly. Would love to see a new fleshed out version of this. That feels less like a spreadsheet. This game is rough round the edges.
The boss system really outs me off.
Please somebody make a Realistic Immersive Gladiator Manager.
Nice game
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Дополнительная информация
Разработчик | Creative Storm Entertainment |
Платформы | Windows |
Ограничение возраста | Нет |
Дата релиза | 24.11.2024 |
Отзывы пользователей | 76% положительных (458) |