Spartacus Legends

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Spartacus Legends
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Developer(s) Kung Fu Factory
Publisher(s) Ubisoft
Designer(s) Stephen Cluff
Writer(s) Allison Miller
Composer(s) Joe LoDuca
Platform(s) PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
ReleasePlayStation 3
  • NA: June 25, 2013
  • PAL: August 7, 2013
Xbox 360
June 26, 2013
Genre(s) Fighting
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Spartacus Legends was a free-to-play video game based on the Starz television series Spartacus. Developed by Kung Fu Factory and published by Ubisoft, Spartacus Legends was released on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live in 2013. On December 22, 2015, Spartacus Legends was discontinued.

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Reception

The PlayStation 3 version received "mixed" reviews, while the Xbox 360 version received "unfavorable" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1] [2]

Nicholas Tan of GameRevolution praised the amount of content the PS3 version had on offer, but criticized the difficulty and lack of polish in said console version. [3]

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