Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...

Don't expect any grand, over-the-top treatment of Spartan history, as Sparta: Ancient Wars is a very generic real-time strategy game. Sparta: Ancient Wars had the fortune and misfortune to come in the ...

Located in a verdant, fertile valley, the famed ancient city-state of Sparta rose to prominence through the promotion of martial skills and the resultant prowess of its army. By the early part of the ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to toughen ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Sparta: Ancient Wars has been in development for two years now, but very little of the game has been seen so far. WorldForge skipped an appearance at ...

The iconic city-state may have fallen nearly 2,400 years ago, but today, 2,000 people still speak the language of these ancient warriors. As you enter the mountainous village of Pera Melana in ...

Following the release of two RTS leviathans (Supreme Commander and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars) in quick succession, it was always going to be hard for any new strategy game to make a serious ...

Cunningly timed to coincide with the cinema release of Zack Snyder s thrilling 300, Ancient Wars: Sparta focuses on the brutal battles between the Persian, Spartan and Egyptian armies around 480BC.