Coliseum PC

Hybrid manager and strategy game divided into rounds. The action takes place in a world where people's favourite entertainment is watching gladiatorial fights. Such individuals have become a sport and as such require appropriate organisation. So there are "managers", administrators, each of whom initially has three young warriors under their care and his task is to train them so that they are better and finally one of them manages to reach for the title of Master. However, it is not so simple, because achieving this honour requires not only perfect preparation of the gladiator, but also appropriate skills of this "manager". And this is where the player takes on the role.

Each of the three warriors, which the player deals with, is described by five basic features. In addition, there is one more feature, Potential, which describes the capabilities of a gladiator - whether he can still achieve something or has already done everything he could afford to do. Of course, this feature is invisible to the player, so he can never be sure what his warrior can actually do. In addition, gladiators are not immortal and age over time, which makes them fight worse and, in the end, they cannot match the young warriors. gladiator coefficients can be developed not only through exhausting physical training, but also with dozens of different drinks that can have a completely different effect on warriors - one can increase their skills and the other can even significantly weaken them.

The game is divided into seasons. Ten gladiators participate in each of them. At the very end there are only four left, and it is they who are fighting for the title of Master. You can play an infinite number of seasons, players come and go all the time, some of them are remembered and saved among the best ("Hall of Fame"), while others disappear without a trace. Something is happening all the time.

The battles are fought in real time and are presented in the form of detailed descriptions. There are a lot of descriptions, so they are rarely repeated, which makes each fight look different, rarely when the fights are similar to each other. There are many types of damage that gladiators take, there are many ways to fight, random messages and events, and so on. The game is not schematic.

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Last updated on 10 December 2007