7 /10 1 Votes
4.7/5 Emuparadise Director(s) Masafumi Horiuchi | 56% GameFAQs 6/10 IGN Initial release date 17 February 2005 Developers ERTAIN, Goshow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date(s) JP: February 17, 2005NA: July 20, 2005EU: September 9, 2005 Genre(s) Third-person actionFightingRPG Similar Koei games, Fighting games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Colosseum: Road to Freedom (originally Gladiator: Road to Freedom in Japan) is a video game for the PlayStation 2 console. It is a hybrid fighting/RPG game loosely based on the Roman Empire around the time of the Emperor Commodus.
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- Gladiator simulator colosseum road to freedom throwback game
- Colosseum road to freedom playstation 2 trailer trailer
- Gameplay and story
- Characters
- Reception and legacy
- References
Colosseum road to freedom playstation 2 trailer trailer
Gameplay and story
Colosseum: Road to Freedom has the player take on the role of a slave that must partake gladiatorial games in order to earn enough money to purchase his freedom. The majority of the game is spent training the player's character and fighting in arena battles. The story in Colosseum takes a backseat in order to allow a higher degree of open-ended gameplay. Players have the freedom to tailor their game avatar to their liking depending on how they answer questions prior to gameplay.
Depending on the player's performance, it is possible to pay off the character's debts and still remain a freeman gladiator. The game allows for multiple endings depending on the player's performance over its course.
Characters
All special fights in the Colosseum pit the player's character against other named gladiators.
Reception and legacy
The game received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one nine, one eight, and two sevens, for a total of 31 out of 40.
On September 1, 2005, Ertain and Koei released Gladiator: Road to Freedom Remix which contains a few updates to the game.
A sequel called Gladiator Begins was released in 2010, and a second one called Clan of Champions was released in late 2011.