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"Ancient Wars: Sparta" has great graphics and physics. The units look great too, and they look even better then Age of Empires 3's units. You can customize your units with all kind of weapons. You can mount your units on horses, camels, elephants and war ships. You can build defensive walls and place your units on top of the walls. All this plus great graphics makes it a fun game. However, the most annoying thing about "Ancient Wars: Sparta" is the economy system. It's too unbalanced. Gold is the most important resources but it's also the lowest speed resources builders can gather. There is only one gold mine next to your base, and the number of gold mine workers is limited. In addition to that your units, your buildings, and upgrades are way too expensive. That's why it leads to the consequences: low-paced game play, which is the worst thing an RTS game can have. You can customize your units - choose the weapon and shield for the unit as you like. But, since units and weapons are too expensive even for the lowest level warrior you will have to wait for a long time before you can enjoy the fight. If that is not problematic enough, there is also the problem that the AI cheats as it knows where additional gold mines can be found, while you the player have to scout for them. As a result, even "Easy" AI will collect double the gold that you will unless you play aggressively by finding these additional AI's gold mines, destroy them and build your own in their place. However, that is easier said than done. I have tried to play several skirmish games against "Easy" AI, and after 20 minutes of game play I was crushed every time by many AI units before I was able to train even a few units. I then used the aggressive strategy of using my heroes to find the AI's gold mines and destroy them. Only then I was able to beat the "Easy" AI. Campaigns that require resource collection have the same issues. The BEST way to enjoy this game is to download a "Trainer" from cheathappens(dot)com Such trainer can give you unlimited gold and will solve this economic problem. However, please note that the Trainer is going to be released to the public only on May 8th 2007. This game has been reviewed by GameSpot and got 6.3 score. If you use the trainer, then you can probably even play against 2 or 3 AI's and the game can then be fun. If you wait a little you can probably buy this game in a few months for $20. It costs $40 at day of release. In 6 months the price may even go down to $10 just like it did for "ParaWorld" and "Rise and Fall". "Rise and Fall" is not such bad game but the price falls down fast due to bad reviews. So my suggestion is to get the trainer, or wait for the price to fall and maybe a patch will solve the economic issue, although I doubt they will fix that.
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