An original take on the race concept: you partecipate in a chariot race in an ancient Rome coliseum, avoiding obstacles and fighting your opponents while riding. There are a good sense of speed, a very nice rendering of the curves of the track and nice music and effects. It's hard too, though.
3/5
Review by YOR on 05 Mar 2022 (Rating: 3)
Released in the UK by Kixx as Colosseum, this is one of the many Spanish games US Gold released on their Kixx budget label over the years. Now you would think that they didn't do a good job of it even from the menu as by pressing any button other than what's shown we get the credits which are in another language, but that I think is Latin so nice attention to detail there, Topo Soft obviously told US Gold “translate this because it's Spanish, don't translate this it's Latin and part of the game's presentation”, nice. And I tell you what, I rather like this one. It has a nice sense of speed and response and can actually be good fun. A good tip I found is to attack the enemies from a above, for I found that attacking from the bottom gives them a head start. But even then you have to avoid boulders and brick walls which can be a problem because of the speed. It is difficult but it's a Spanish release and the Spanish companies were known to make their games so brually difficult and this, while not brutal and you can at least do something on it unlike say Bestial Warrior, but still it's really hard. However, I did rather enjoy this one.
