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Good graphics, decent music, will be a fun game to play when you fix 150712095712059712059 bugs and balancing issues game has. Game has so many stupid balancing errors and bugs it makes me wonder what the heck were you doing when the game was in beta.

I'll start with the most annoying and stupid one. When you make a game with skills which have upgrades you CLEARLY state what changes when you level a skill. This is the most ridiculously funny fail on your part, there is no info whatsoever about the different skill levels.

Furthermore there is something clearly wrong with some of the skill's levels, such as, when you level armor break, you increase its mana(whatever it is called in game) cost as expected. That's fine. Whats wrong is, damage not changes at all! You get a slight damage bonus but i think thats from the strength points i picked when i leveled not the armor break. Further testing proved that leveling armor break increases nothing at all. If i was able to do this without any testing and admin tools you should have easily caught that as well, come on guys there's something clearly wrong with your algorithm. There is a similar problem with protect, it doesn't work at all at level 2-3-4 miraculously starts working at level 5 then broken again at level 6 works at level 7 but when you choose block it doesn't block and takes the beating, same at 8 and 9. I REALLY HOPE it works as intended at level 10. I mean when you block character should raise its shield when protecting the other character right? It was like that at level 5 but when i leveled the skill, it got broken. Only way to block is to appeal to crowd after protect, which makes the character vulnerable to enemy for that turn, then use shield bash repetitively. Btw shield bash has problems at different levels too, you get the picture, please take a look at the skills level up codes. Something is not working there.

One of my complaints was that game has balancing issues, let me get to that. Cure is useless. And i mean COMPLETELY useless. Since gladiators have more armor than health, either double its healing effect and make it heal armor too OR make it able to heal severed limbs to make it useful.
Armor break is useless and power attack does not crit(it does not for me) which makes thraex tree weaker than dhnarehahaerus(dual wield) tree. Protect should work as intended to make murmillo useful. I havent played with others but i am sure there are problems with them as well.

Another bug we encountered is that duel mechanism is very hard to get to work. We cant fight each other without excessive refreshing and browser changing, i should be able to beat the crap out of my friends team simply by following a link, but it does not work. Most important aspect of the game is multiplayer so please fix that. Game is useless if i cant fight my friends. I know it is hard to implement but a real time multiplayer would be a blast, of course after the bugs and balancing issues are fixed.

When all of the issues are fixed, this will be one of the greatest flash games ever. If you can implement real time multiplayer, all the better. Game will get so popular even you will be surprised. But as of now, it has too many problems to be a fun experience, it just makes me frustrated why doesn't this or that skill work as intended.

This is great! haven't finished i yet but awesome so far >:D

Awesome game!

Btw I thought the review under me was Author Comments XD

First of all, I would like to congratulate BerzerkStudio in doing such a fine job to create these kinds of Flash games today :D
@Complement (What I like):
*I understand there are a lot of glitches and fixes you all need to do, because this is still new. I like how the game works, killing each other both opposite teams.
*Cutting or disabling there limbs so they can't attack nor run into you. Different shops with random weapons and armor regenerates, different arenas to fight in and not to mention the slave market haha :))
@Comment (Things that I don't like much):
*Music*
- Yes the music. It's not Roman enough. Even when the battle starts, I really don't like the music. Well when your out of the battle, the music is a bit ok.
*Stats*
- The stats are really bad. Just imagine. If you like mostly put the stat Vitality, it's kinda unbalance don't you think? Vitality will like just gain you a bit of your health, and your enemy's attack hurts much when your already 20+. There damage are like more than 180+ so it's kinda a bit pretty useless. And if you increase your vitality much, you don't have enough other stats.
*Skills*
- The skills are still little, and some of them are useless. On the skill tree "Retariuss", the skill there called "Cure" is one of the less helpful that I could have not imagine. The cure, it's so little.
- MP cost are to high, and if you want to regain your MP, it's too fast.
- The skill called "Protect", why doesn't it always work when I even made that skill level 10? I use protect on one of my slaves (ally) the first attack my tanker blocked it, and second he didn't even blocked it. And the bad thing is, the MP cost is like 150 MP! seriously you need to fix that, if not then the skill tree called "Murmillo" will be useless.
- "Blood Rage" It sounds opposite, do you know what I mean? "Blood Rage" is better if the attacking player made the enemy (or attacked player) bleed or cuts it's limbs off, it increases your speed.
@Bugs and Glitches:
- One of the glitches I found that, when you have the skill called "Cure" and "Throw", it can help you to kill one of your allies. First, click the skill called "Cure" but don't use it on anyone. Then click the skill "Throw", that will automatically allow you to hit one of your allies. haha and it actually really works.
- After you pick what the emperor (or in charge of the game) decides if the loosing contestant dies or lives, nothing will happen.
- I already connect my Sands of the Coliseum account to Facebook, then the game says that I was disconnected. So I tried to reconnect it again to Facebook (so I could claim more rewards) and it works. After those days of claiming my rewards, I came back from the start of day 1 to claim my reward.. I still haven't reach day 3 rewards due to that error in connecting to my Facebook account. You need to fix this problem, seriously.
- I just continue playing the game, and then it sometimes disconnects gamersafe account. and no, it's not the problem of my net.
@Recommends:
*Music*
- Make the background music into more old ancient Roman Music, and not like a rock and roll fight music that it's not like Roman. Do you know the game "Shadow of Rome" in ps2? You really need to listen to one of those soundtracks, and if possible play it. It really can give you an idea in making better Roman musics for the game.
- Change the battle theme, it doesn't sounds like old ancient roman sounds to me.
*Change the whole skill tree*
- I think it's better if you would recreate the whole skill tree.
*Battles*
- It's better if you could fight other people than only Romans. Like Greek people, barbarians, other tribes from other countries like the Hiwatha, the Iroquois or the Spartans (which is really true)
- Different kinds of battle, like defeating captured lions, tigers, or huge mounted elephant from other tribes would be better :D
I hope you will really read and appreciate on my review about your game, it took me like an hour to make this review better just to make this game also better and more successful. Contact me if you need help on this game.

Great game. Sure your oppenents get way more MP than you, but a little strategy or back-tracking for lvls and gear can get you through most battles. One weird bug I found is in Syracuse you can buy a weapon called "mace" but it's accually a 2-handed sword