Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans
Horrible Histories: The Ruthless Romans, a fun party game based on the hugely popular children's books by Terry Deary. You take on the role of a young Gladiator making his way to the Coliseum. Learn fighting…
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans is an adventure, released 7 August 2009 on Nintendo DS, Wii and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans is
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans was released in 2009. It is available on Nintendo DS, Wii and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Horrible Histories: The Ruthless Romans, a fun party game based on the hugely popular children's books by Terry Deary. You take on the role of a young Gladiator making his way to the Coliseum. Learn fighting techniques and explore ancient Rome as you go. Each mini-game has a learning aspect and is set in an entertaining, enjoyable and exciting world.
How it plays
Its themes are fantasy and historical.
How it was received
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 37 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans launched on 7 August 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Wii Sports Resort, Wolfenstein and Metroid Prime: Trilogy. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Wii Sports Resort, Wolfenstein, Metroid Prime: Trilogy.
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