Colosseum: Road to Freedom
Taken into slavery, you are now a gladiator. Your only chance at freedom is to earn enough money in the arena to buy yourself back. Whether in a lowly arena on the outskirts of the Empire or in the Colosseum…
Colosseum: Road to Freedom is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by GOSHOW, Inc., released 17 March 2005 on PlayStation 2.
What Colosseum: Road to Freedom is
Colosseum: Road to Freedom is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by GOSHOW, Inc. and released in 2005. It was published by Koei. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Taken into slavery, you are now a gladiator. Your only chance at freedom is to earn enough money in the arena to buy yourself back. Whether in a lowly arena on the outskirts of the Empire or in the Colosseum itself, a wide variety of opponents await: heavily armed charioteers, wild bulls, fellow gladiators and more. In a series of battles, from battle royales to one-on-one duels, you must entertain the crowds by spilling blood. After battles, it's time to train. A series of minigames improves your attributes and your diet perfects your body. Study your rankings, play around with your special skills, and await the next battle. Colosseum: Road to Freedom is a self-described Action RPG…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Colosseum: Road to Freedom holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 22 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Colosseum: Road to Freedom launched on 17 March 2005, within three weeks of God of War, God of War I, Tekken 5 and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: God of War, God of War I, Tekken 5, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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