Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance
A Warrior Slave… Chosen by the Gods… To restore the glory of an Empire. In the Year 106 AD the Roman Empire is in terrible decline. After the untimely death of the much-loved Emperor Trajan, the despotic…
Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance is an adventure developed by Acclaim Studios Manchester, released 5 November 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance is
Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance is an adventure game developed by Acclaim Studios Manchester and released in 2003. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Warrior Slave… Chosen by the Gods… To restore the glory of an Empire. In the Year 106 AD the Roman Empire is in terrible decline. After the untimely death of the much-loved Emperor Trajan, the despotic Emperor Arruntius has bled the once powerful Rome to its knees. Poorly fought wars, famine, and plague are rife in all corners of the Empire, whilst the Emperor and his elite enjoy every excess and vice that the emptying coffers can afford. As herald to this age of degeneration, Arruntius has destroyed large portions of the city of Rome to create the battleground for the bloodiest gladiator event ever staged…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 17 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM and 512mb VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance launched on 5 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.
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