Pugilist, Dual Swords, Sword and Shield, and Single Sword. What kinds of fighting styles can players use? Then you get money, and can steal weapons off of their dead bodies before they’re even cold. You hit them until you knock their armor off, and then you hit them some more until they die. There are some other dudes there, and possibly ladies. Tl dr - A fight pretty much goes like this: You go into the arena. Using special moves (of which there are legion) also taxes your endurance, so no spamming the Roman equivalent of Ice Car to get through all your matches. It can also be used as a weapon! But it’s heavy, which means you can only smack your opponent with it a couple of times before you’re all tuckered out, and have to spend a few seconds wheezing in the corner of the arena and getting your breath back. But let’s say you have the strength to wield a tower shield, like one of these. For instance, if you wield the Gladius, a small Roman short-sword, you can swing it with wild abandon and have little to worry about, since such a light weapon requires very little endurance. This gets a little complicated, since the weight of your weapon will also affect this.
Did I mention there are lions?Įndurance determines how many times you can swing your weapon(s) before you tire out and need to take 5. High vitality means you can shrug off sword blows like the love child of Chuck Norris and Jet Li, while low vitality means you’re little more than a naked, terrified, semi-mobile tube of blood and viscera. Vitality determines your health–known colloquially as "hit points"–which determines how long you will survive in the ring once your armor has been knocked off. If your strength is high, however, you can gird your loins (and other bits) in all sorts of thick hunks of metal and leather, and still be able to dash around the ring like sprightly fairy! Badass! In other words, if your strength is low, you can’t move very fast if you wear heavy armor and carry heavy weapons. Strength determines how much weight you can carry, and how hard you hit. Thrilling stuff for the kids!Įach character has three "stats": Strength, Vitality, and Endurance. For instance, you could, as the legendary Roman warrior "Two-Helmets" Jackson, wield a pair of helmets with which you bludgeon your enemies into a bloody pulp. Armor can’t be re-equipped (with the exception of helmets) once knocked off, but anything that falls to the ground, including pieces of armor, can be picked up and wielded as weapons. When armor or weapons are knocked off, they fall to the ground, where they can be picked up. You pick a weapon and armor loadout before the match begins, but your armor and weapon(s) can be knocked off during a fight, as can the armor and weapons of your opponents (and allies!). Well, except dead bodies, which is unfortunate, but whatever.
Now that everyone is equipped can you tell us how fights work in Gladiator Begins?įights in Gladiator Begins can be described best as a free-for-all where everything–and I mean everything–is a weapon. What about armor? The game includes equipment other than loincloths and shields, right?īen: I will armor myself in His love, and be safe from all harm, but to be double-sure I will also wear a Kevlar vest.īo: Chastity belt. Or a spear, if Jesus is unavailable.įrank "Bo" deWindt II: My body is a weapon. What weapon would you personally bring to a fight?īen Bateman: Jesus, who is the Lord. Gladiator Begins has a lot of weapon choices. Ben Bateman and Bo deWindt II dropped by to tell us about Gladiator Begins and somehow, we changed topics to Internet memes and catgirls.
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