Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Spartacus (TV series)











Is an american TV series that’s started on
January 22, 2010, and concluded on April 12, 2013, hence the tital, the series was inspired by the historical legend Spartacus  who led amajor slave uprising against the Roman Republic  from 73 to 71 BCE.

The TV series follows Spartacus on his journey from a free man, to slave, a champion of the arena,, then again as a free man fighting agented Roma
The series consists of three main series (Blood and Sand, Vengeance, War of the damned and a mini-series prequel (Gods of the arena) at the end of Blood and sand, we see Spartacus free himself and his fellow brother gladiators and slaved from their bondage, and take up arms agented Roma.
Sadly Andy Whitfield (Spartacus) was diagnosed with early-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma (died September 11 2012) , so as Andy took time away to recover Starz made a  six-episode prequel mini-series, the series was used to re visit the characters origins, and see who how they developed before Blood and Sand,
The style
Spartacus is presented with a slightly over the top, overexposed video stylization, akin to the style used in the film 300, uses a stylised graphic visual effects and an overused of blood and gore, the show would use a lot of after effects and green screen to achieve its “graphic novel” type feel 

Video games
The fame from the TV series has now spawned a Free to play/download video game (only available for PlayStation Network and Xbox live…not PC?) it was announced that the game should be released late May 2013, the game is titled Spartacus Legends, and you play as a slave fighting for glory of Capua, the game does feature three main characters from the series,, Spartacus, Crixus and Oenomaus but sadly you can’t play as them :(

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