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Spartan: Total Warrior

An action game spin-off in the Total Warrior series. Play as a mighty Spartan trooper, and battle through hordes of enemies in large environments, while working with allies. Use ultra-violent special attacks…

78 7 October 2005

Spartan: Total Warrior is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by The Creative Assembly, released 7 October 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Spartan: Total Warrior is

Spartan: Total Warrior is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2005. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on Spartan: Total Warrior Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Spartan: Total Warrior is a 2005 hack and slash game for GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. Developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega, it was released on all platforms in October. It is a spin-off of the Total War series.
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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.

Where it sits in the Total War series

Spartan: Total Warrior is the fourth of 56 entries we hold in the Total War series. It arrived a year after Rome: Total War. The next entry was Medieval II: Total War in 2006. Its critic score of 78 is 5 points below the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Rome: Total War at 91.

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How it was received

Spartan: Total Warrior holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 66% 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 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Spartan: Total Warrior launched on 7 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy). All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy).

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When did Spartan: Total Warrior come out?
Spartan: Total Warrior was released on 7 October 2005 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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