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* DubNameChange: Bizarrely, the European version changes the names of everybody in the Egyptian campaign, giving them ''Arabian'' names instead. Inaros becomes Hazem, Ahmose is renamed as Ahmed, and Meritaton becomes Rawia. Megabyzus is also turned into a CompositeCharacter with another satrap by being renamed Achaemenes.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The game includes a variety of siege equipment and war machines, some of which are decidedly more useful than others.
* TheBeastmaster: Egyptian priestesses can summon and control panthers.
* BigBad: King Xerxes, although in a twist, he has his own campaign of which he is a sort of BigGood.
* DamselInDistress: Ahmose's daughter is kidnapped by the Persians and needs to be rescued throughout the game.
* DubNameChange: Bizarrely, the European version changes the names of everybody in the Egyptian campaign, giving them ''Arabian'' names instead. Inaros becomes Hazem, Ahmose is renamed as Ahmed, and Meritaton becomes Rawia. Megabyzus is also turned into a CompositeCharacter with another satrap by being renamedAchaemenes.Achaemenes.
* HistoricalFantasy: The story is loosely based in real history, with some magic and stuff.
* PlayingWithFire: Persian priests can throw fireballs.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: African and Egypt warriors are often barechested. Inaros/Hazem also counts.
* TheBeastmaster: Egyptian priestesses can summon and control panthers.
* BigBad: King Xerxes, although in a twist, he has his own campaign of which he is a sort of BigGood.
* DamselInDistress: Ahmose's daughter is kidnapped by the Persians and needs to be rescued throughout the game.
* DubNameChange: Bizarrely, the European version changes the names of everybody in the Egyptian campaign, giving them ''Arabian'' names instead. Inaros becomes Hazem, Ahmose is renamed as Ahmed, and Meritaton becomes Rawia. Megabyzus is also turned into a CompositeCharacter with another satrap by being renamed
* HistoricalFantasy: The story is loosely based in real history, with some magic and stuff.
* PlayingWithFire: Persian priests can throw fireballs.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: African and Egypt warriors are often barechested. Inaros/Hazem also counts.
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''Ancient Wars: Sparta'' is a RealTimeStrategy videogame released in 2006 by the disappeared Russian developer World Forge. Set in the UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars, it is composed by three campaigns that allow the player play as Sparta, Egypt and the Persian Empire.
In the 5th century BC, the world trembles. The mighty Persian Empire, ruled by Achaemenid house, is in midst of a succession crisis. Chosen by the recently deceased King Darius as his heir, the ambitious Xerxes gathers his followers to establish his place in the empire and begin the last will of his father as soon as possible: conquering Greece in order to avenge the humiliating defeat of Marathon.
At the same time, the Greeks are not idle. King Leonidas of Sparta, who has urged the rest of nations of Greece to join him in the defense of their country, is visited by his nephew Pausanias in his camp in Thermopylae. The king tells Pausanias the story of he reached his own throne, which inspires the young warrior to join him. The forces of Athens, led by Miltiades, watch the incoming battle, waiting to make a decision.
In the 5th century BC, the world trembles. The mighty Persian Empire, ruled by Achaemenid house, is in midst of a succession crisis. Chosen by the recently deceased King Darius as his heir, the ambitious Xerxes gathers his followers to establish his place in the empire and begin the last will of his father as soon as possible: conquering Greece in order to avenge the humiliating defeat of Marathon.
At the same time, the Greeks are not idle. King Leonidas of Sparta, who has urged the rest of nations of Greece to join him in the defense of their country, is visited by his nephew Pausanias in his camp in Thermopylae. The king tells Pausanias the story of he reached his own throne, which inspires the young warrior to join him. The forces of Athens, led by Miltiades, watch the incoming battle, waiting to make a decision.
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''Ancient Wars: Sparta'' is a RealTimeStrategy videogame released in 2006 by the now disappeared Russian developer World Forge. Set in the UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars, it is composed by three campaigns that allow the player play as Sparta, Egypt and the Persian Empire.
In the 5th century BC, the world trembles. The mighty Persian Empire, ruled by the Achaemenid house, is in midst of a succession crisis. Chosen by the recently deceased King Darius as his heir, the ambitious Xerxes gathers his followers to establish his place in the empire and begin the last will of his father as soon as possible: conquering Greece in order to avenge the humiliating defeat of Marathon.
At the same time,the Greeks are not idle. King Leonidas of Sparta, who has urged the rest of nations of Greece to join him in the defense of their country, is visited by his nephew Pausanias in his camp in Thermopylae. The king tells Pausanias the story of he reached his own throne, which inspires the young warrior to join him. The forces of Athens, led by Miltiades, watch the incoming battle, waiting to make a decision.
In the 5th century BC, the world trembles. The mighty Persian Empire, ruled by the Achaemenid house, is in midst of a succession crisis. Chosen by the recently deceased King Darius as his heir, the ambitious Xerxes gathers his followers to establish his place in the empire and begin the last will of his father as soon as possible: conquering Greece in order to avenge the humiliating defeat of Marathon.
At the same time,
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* AlternateHistory: Oddly, only the Persian campaign ends as real history went, with the Persians losing in Plataea and it being implied that Artabanus will betray Xerxes. In the Greek one, [[spoiler:Xerxes is killed in Salamis despite in real life he didn't even participate in the battle]], while in the Egyptian one, [[spoiler:Inaros trumps Megabyzus when in real life he was defeated]].
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* AlternateHistory: Oddly, only Only the Persian campaign ends as real history went, with the Persians losing in Plataea and it being implied that Artabanus will betray Xerxes. In the Greek one, [[spoiler:Xerxes is killed in Salamis despite in real life he didn't even participate in the battle]], while in the Egyptian one, [[spoiler:Inaros trumps Megabyzus when in real life he was defeated]].
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* AlternateHistory: Oddly, only the Persian campaign ends as real history went, with the Persians losing in Plataea and it being implied that Artabanus will betray Xerxes. In the Greek one, [[spoiler:Xerxes is killed in Salamina despite in real life he wasn't even there]], while in the Egyptian one, [[spoiler:Inaros trumps Megabyzus when in real life he was defeated]].
* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** Although this can be pardoned as AcceptableBreaksFromReality to have him as a hero unit in the game, in real life Xerxes didn't fight himself in the battlefield, especially with a {{BFS}} of all things. The same goes for his adviser Artabanus.
** Persian warriors can be equipped with DualWielding sabers, which has no historical basis and seems to be just a ShoutOut to the Immortals in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' (although, ironically, this game's version of the Persian Immortals cannot be equipped that way).
** Demaratus fights with a large labrys, a weapon that was largely used with ceremonial purposes.
** Ahmose wears a royal ''nemes'' crown that should have not been worn by anyone other than a pharaoh. Inaros, for his part, wears a rather bizarre cobra hood-like headdress that seems out of the 2000 ''Series/FrankHerbertsDune'' miniseries.
** Some of the weapons, like the Persian tri-dagger, are definitely made up.
** The timeline of the game places Inaros' rebellion as happening at the same time as Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when in real life ''twenty whole years'' separated the two conflicts. In fact, Xerxes had been dead and buried for five years when Inaros revolted against the Persian empire, which by then was ruled by Xerxes' son Artaxerxes.
** The real Leonidas never set foot on Egypt, while his version from the games does in order to help Inaros in Sais. This effectively conflates Leonidas and Sparta with Athens and its statesman Cimon, who did deploy in Egypt to help the rebellion. The game also omits the detail that this Greek force was completely defeated and forced to return to Greece.
** The game makes a strange choice by having Miltiades as the Athenian commander at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, as the real Miltiades died nine years before. By the time the game is set in, Athens was actually led by Themistocles, who was the main driving force behind the Greek resistance against Xerxes in the first place. The game also follows the pop culture trend started by ''Film/ThreeHundred'' where the Spartans were basically alone in Thermopylae and had to sacrifice themselves to move Greece to act.
** Candaules seems to be an original character. That, or he is a time-misplaced Candaules, king of Lydia, who lived two centuries before the game's events.
** In the game, Demaratus and Hydarnes die in the Battle of Thermopylae. In real life, Hydarnes survived to the war and returned safely to Persia, while Demaratus' fate is unknown, with some authors dating his death as an entire year later.
** Shabaka lived in the 8th century, not in the 5th. Oddly, the game itself has a preface commenting Shabaka would eventually become a pharaoh of the XXV dynasty, apparently hoping the players are not knowledgeable enough to know that this would require Shabaka to travel 240 years back in time.
** Meritaton's name is anachronistic, as it contains the name of the god Aten, who fell out of favor in Egypt after the scandalous reign of Akhenaten almost a millennium earlier.
** The usage of the "Medjay" term is another anachronism, as the word fell in disuse after 1077 BC.
** Wedjahor is apparently meant to be the historical Wedjahor-Resne, an Egyptian nobleman that betrayed his country for the Achaemenid Empire, but the latter died in 515, while this is alive several decades later.
** Mardonius has an attack named Perseus Arrow. Why a Persian would use the name of a Greek mythological hero (unless, you know, they made a flimsy Persian-Perseus association) is never answered.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** Although this can be pardoned as AcceptableBreaksFromReality to have him as a hero unit in the game, in real life Xerxes didn't fight himself in the battlefield, especially with a {{BFS}} of all things. The same goes for his adviser Artabanus.
** Persian warriors can be equipped with DualWielding sabers, which has no historical basis and seems to be just a ShoutOut to the Immortals in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' (although, ironically, this game's version of the Persian Immortals cannot be equipped that way).
** Demaratus fights with a large labrys, a weapon that was largely used with ceremonial purposes.
** Ahmose wears a royal ''nemes'' crown that should have not been worn by anyone other than a pharaoh. Inaros, for his part, wears a rather bizarre cobra hood-like headdress that seems out of the 2000 ''Series/FrankHerbertsDune'' miniseries.
** Some of the weapons, like the Persian tri-dagger, are definitely made up.
** The timeline of the game places Inaros' rebellion as happening at the same time as Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when in real life ''twenty whole years'' separated the two conflicts. In fact, Xerxes had been dead and buried for five years when Inaros revolted against the Persian empire, which by then was ruled by Xerxes' son Artaxerxes.
** The real Leonidas never set foot on Egypt, while his version from the games does in order to help Inaros in Sais. This effectively conflates Leonidas and Sparta with Athens and its statesman Cimon, who did deploy in Egypt to help the rebellion. The game also omits the detail that this Greek force was completely defeated and forced to return to Greece.
** The game makes a strange choice by having Miltiades as the Athenian commander at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, as the real Miltiades died nine years before. By the time the game is set in, Athens was actually led by Themistocles, who was the main driving force behind the Greek resistance against Xerxes in the first place. The game also follows the pop culture trend started by ''Film/ThreeHundred'' where the Spartans were basically alone in Thermopylae and had to sacrifice themselves to move Greece to act.
** Candaules seems to be an original character. That, or he is a time-misplaced Candaules, king of Lydia, who lived two centuries before the game's events.
** In the game, Demaratus and Hydarnes die in the Battle of Thermopylae. In real life, Hydarnes survived to the war and returned safely to Persia, while Demaratus' fate is unknown, with some authors dating his death as an entire year later.
** Shabaka lived in the 8th century, not in the 5th. Oddly, the game itself has a preface commenting Shabaka would eventually become a pharaoh of the XXV dynasty, apparently hoping the players are not knowledgeable enough to know that this would require Shabaka to travel 240 years back in time.
** Meritaton's name is anachronistic, as it contains the name of the god Aten, who fell out of favor in Egypt after the scandalous reign of Akhenaten almost a millennium earlier.
** The usage of the "Medjay" term is another anachronism, as the word fell in disuse after 1077 BC.
** Wedjahor is apparently meant to be the historical Wedjahor-Resne, an Egyptian nobleman that betrayed his country for the Achaemenid Empire, but the latter died in 515, while this is alive several decades later.
** Mardonius has an attack named Perseus Arrow. Why a Persian would use the name of a Greek mythological hero (unless, you know, they made a flimsy Persian-Perseus association) is never answered.
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* AlternateHistory: Oddly, only the Persian campaign ends as real history went, with the Persians losing in Plataea and it being implied that Artabanus will betray Xerxes. In the Greek one, [[spoiler:Xerxes is killed in Salamina Salamis despite in real life he wasn't didn't even there]], participate in the battle]], while in the Egyptian one, [[spoiler:Inaros trumps Megabyzus when in real life he was defeated]].
*ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** Although this can be pardoned as AcceptableBreaksFromReality to have him as a hero unit in the game, in real life Xerxes didn't fight himself in the battlefield, especially with a {{BFS}} of all things. The same goesArtisticLicenseHistory: Enough for his adviser Artabanus.
** Persian warriors can be equipped with DualWielding sabers, which has no historical basis and seems to be just a ShoutOut to the Immortals in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' (although, ironically, this game's version of the Persian Immortals cannot be equipped that way).
** Demaratus fights with a large labrys, a weapon that was largely used with ceremonial purposes.
** Ahmose wears a royal ''nemes'' crown that should have not been worn by anyone other than a pharaoh. Inaros, for his part, wears a rather bizarre cobra hood-like headdress that seems out of the 2000 ''Series/FrankHerbertsDune'' miniseries.
** Some of the weapons, like the Persian tri-dagger, are definitely made up.
** The timeline of the game places Inaros' rebellion as happening at the same time as Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when in real life ''twenty whole years'' separated the two conflicts. In fact, Xerxes had been dead and buried for five years when Inaros revolted against the Persian empire, which by then was ruled by Xerxes' son Artaxerxes.
** The real Leonidas never set foot on Egypt, while his version from the games does in order to help Inaros in Sais. This effectively conflates Leonidas and Sparta with Athens and[[ArtisticLicenseHistory/AncientWarsSparta its statesman Cimon, who did deploy in Egypt to help the rebellion. The game also omits the detail that this Greek force was completely defeated and forced to return to Greece.
** The game makes a strange choice by having Miltiades as the Athenian commander at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, as the real Miltiades died nine years before. By the time the game is set in, Athens was actually led by Themistocles, who was the main driving force behind the Greek resistance against Xerxes in the first place. The game also follows the pop culture trend started by ''Film/ThreeHundred'' where the Spartans were basically alone in Thermopylae and had to sacrifice themselves to move Greece to act.
** Candaules seems to be an original character. That, or he is a time-misplaced Candaules, king of Lydia, who lived two centuries before the game's events.
** In the game, Demaratus and Hydarnes die in the Battle of Thermopylae. In real life, Hydarnes survived to the war and returned safely to Persia, while Demaratus' fate is unknown, with some authors dating his death as an entire year later.
** Shabaka lived in the 8th century, not in the 5th. Oddly, the game itself has a preface commenting Shabaka would eventually become a pharaoh of the XXV dynasty, apparently hoping the players are not knowledgeable enough to know that this would require Shabaka to travel 240 years back in time.
** Meritaton's name is anachronistic, as it contains the name of the god Aten, who fell out of favor in Egypt after the scandalous reign of Akhenaten almost a millennium earlier.
** The usage of the "Medjay" term is another anachronism, as the word fell in disuse after 1077 BC.
** Wedjahor is apparently meant to be the historical Wedjahor-Resne, an Egyptian nobleman that betrayed his country for the Achaemenid Empire, but the latter died in 515, while this is alive several decades later.
** Mardonius has an attack named Perseus Arrow. Why a Persian would use the name of a Greek mythological hero (unless, you know, they made a flimsy Persian-Perseus association) is never answered.own article]].
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** Although this can be pardoned as AcceptableBreaksFromReality to have him as a hero unit in the game, in real life Xerxes didn't fight himself in the battlefield, especially with a {{BFS}} of all things. The same goes
** Persian warriors can be equipped with DualWielding sabers, which has no historical basis and seems to be just a ShoutOut to the Immortals in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' (although, ironically, this game's version of the Persian Immortals cannot be equipped that way).
** Demaratus fights with a large labrys, a weapon that was largely used with ceremonial purposes.
** Ahmose wears a royal ''nemes'' crown that should have not been worn by anyone other than a pharaoh. Inaros, for his part, wears a rather bizarre cobra hood-like headdress that seems out of the 2000 ''Series/FrankHerbertsDune'' miniseries.
** Some of the weapons, like the Persian tri-dagger, are definitely made up.
** The timeline of the game places Inaros' rebellion as happening at the same time as Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when in real life ''twenty whole years'' separated the two conflicts. In fact, Xerxes had been dead and buried for five years when Inaros revolted against the Persian empire, which by then was ruled by Xerxes' son Artaxerxes.
** The real Leonidas never set foot on Egypt, while his version from the games does in order to help Inaros in Sais. This effectively conflates Leonidas and Sparta with Athens and
** The game makes a strange choice by having Miltiades as the Athenian commander at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, as the real Miltiades died nine years before. By the time the game is set in, Athens was actually led by Themistocles, who was the main driving force behind the Greek resistance against Xerxes in the first place. The game also follows the pop culture trend started by ''Film/ThreeHundred'' where the Spartans were basically alone in Thermopylae and had to sacrifice themselves to move Greece to act.
** Candaules seems to be an original character. That, or he is a time-misplaced Candaules, king of Lydia, who lived two centuries before the game's events.
** In the game, Demaratus and Hydarnes die in the Battle of Thermopylae. In real life, Hydarnes survived to the war and returned safely to Persia, while Demaratus' fate is unknown, with some authors dating his death as an entire year later.
** Shabaka lived in the 8th century, not in the 5th. Oddly, the game itself has a preface commenting Shabaka would eventually become a pharaoh of the XXV dynasty, apparently hoping the players are not knowledgeable enough to know that this would require Shabaka to travel 240 years back in time.
** Meritaton's name is anachronistic, as it contains the name of the god Aten, who fell out of favor in Egypt after the scandalous reign of Akhenaten almost a millennium earlier.
** The usage of the "Medjay" term is another anachronism, as the word fell in disuse after 1077 BC.
** Wedjahor is apparently meant to be the historical Wedjahor-Resne, an Egyptian nobleman that betrayed his country for the Achaemenid Empire, but the latter died in 515, while this is alive several decades later.
** Mardonius has an attack named Perseus Arrow. Why a Persian would use the name of a Greek mythological hero (unless, you know, they made a flimsy Persian-Perseus association) is never answered.
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** Shabaka lived in the 8th century, not in the 5th. Oddly, the game itself has a preface commenting Shabaka would eventually become a pharaoh of the XXV dynasty, apparently hoping the players are not knowledgeable enough to know that this would require Shabaka demand to travel 240 years back in time.
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** Shabaka lived in the 8th century, not in the 5th. Oddly, the game itself has a preface commenting Shabaka would eventually become a pharaoh of the XXV dynasty, apparently hoping the players are not knowledgeable enough to know that this would require Shabaka demand to travel 240 years back in time.
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** The usage of the "Medjay" term is another anachronism, as the word fell in disuse after 1077 BC.
** Wedjahor is apparently meant to be the historical Wedjahor-Resne, an Egyptian nobleman that betrayed his country for the Achaemenid Empire, but the latter died in 515, while this is alive several decades later.
** Mardonius has an attack named Perseus Arrow. Why a Persian would use the name of a Greek mythological hero (unless, you know, they made a flimsy Persian-Perseus association) is never answered.
** Wedjahor is apparently meant to be the historical Wedjahor-Resne, an Egyptian nobleman that betrayed his country for the Achaemenid Empire, but the latter died in 515, while this is alive several decades later.
** Mardonius has an attack named Perseus Arrow. Why a Persian would use the name of a Greek mythological hero (unless, you know, they made a flimsy Persian-Perseus association) is never answered.
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At the same time, the Greeks are not idle. King Leonidas of Sparta, who has urged the rest of nations of Greece to join him in the defense of their country, is visited by his nephew Pausanias in his camp in Thermopylae. The king tells Pausanias the story of he reached his own throne, which inspires the young warrior to join him. The forces of Athens, led by Milciades, watch the incoming battle, waiting to make a decision.
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At the same time, the Greeks are not idle. King Leonidas of Sparta, who has urged the rest of nations of Greece to join him in the defense of their country, is visited by his nephew Pausanias in his camp in Thermopylae. The king tells Pausanias the story of he reached his own throne, which inspires the young warrior to join him. The forces of Athens, led by Milciades, Miltiades, watch the incoming battle, waiting to make a decision.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** Although this can be pardoned as AcceptableBreaksFromReality to have him as a hero unit in the game, in real life Xerxes didn't fight himself in the battlefield, especially with a {{BFS}} of all things. The same goes for his adviser Artabanus.
** Persian warriors can be equipped with DualWielding sabers, which has no historical basis and seems to be just a ShoutOut to the Immortals in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' (although, ironically, this game's version of the Persian Immortals cannot be equipped that way).
** Demaratus fights with a large labrys, a weapon that was largely used with ceremonial purposes.
** Ahmose wears a royal ''nemes'' crown that should have not been worn by anyone other than a pharaoh. Inaros, for his part, wears a rather bizarre cobra hood-like headdress that seems out of the 2000 ''Series/FrankHerbertsDune'' miniseries.
** Some of the weapons, like the Persian tri-dagger, are definitely made up.
** The timeline of the game places Inaros' rebellion as happening at the same time as Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when in real life ''twenty whole years'' separated the two conflicts. In fact, Xerxes had been dead and buried for five years when Inaros revolted against the Persian empire, which by then was ruled by Xerxes' son Artaxerxes.
** The real Leonidas never set foot on Egypt, while his version from the games does in order to help Inaros in Sais. This effectively conflates Leonidas and Sparta with Athens and its statesman Cimon, who did deploy in Egypt to help the rebellion. The game also omits the detail that this Greek force was completely defeated and forced to return to Greece.
** The game makes a strange choice by having Miltiades as the Athenian commander at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, as the real Miltiades died nine years before. By the time the game is set in, Athens was actually led by Themistocles, who was the main driving force behind the Greek resistance against Xerxes in the first place. The game also follows the pop culture trend started by ''Film/ThreeHundred'' where the Spartans were basically alone in Thermopylae and had to sacrifice themselves to move Greece to act.
** Candaules seems to be an original character. That, or he is a time-misplaced Candaules, king of Lydia, who lived two centuries before the game's events.
** In the game, Demaratus and Hydarnes die in the Battle of Thermopylae. In real life, Hydarnes survived to the war and returned safely to Persia, while Demaratus' fate is unknown, with some authors dating his death as an entire year later.
** Shabaka lived in the 8th century, not in the 5th. Oddly, the game itself has a preface commenting Shabaka would eventually become a pharaoh of the XXV dynasty, apparently hoping the players are not knowledgeable enough to know that this would require Shabaka demand to travel 240 years back in time.
** Meritaton's name is anachronistic, as it contains the name of the god Aten, who fell out of favor in Egypt after the scandalous reign of Akhenaten almost a millennium earlier.
** Although this can be pardoned as AcceptableBreaksFromReality to have him as a hero unit in the game, in real life Xerxes didn't fight himself in the battlefield, especially with a {{BFS}} of all things. The same goes for his adviser Artabanus.
** Persian warriors can be equipped with DualWielding sabers, which has no historical basis and seems to be just a ShoutOut to the Immortals in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' (although, ironically, this game's version of the Persian Immortals cannot be equipped that way).
** Demaratus fights with a large labrys, a weapon that was largely used with ceremonial purposes.
** Ahmose wears a royal ''nemes'' crown that should have not been worn by anyone other than a pharaoh. Inaros, for his part, wears a rather bizarre cobra hood-like headdress that seems out of the 2000 ''Series/FrankHerbertsDune'' miniseries.
** Some of the weapons, like the Persian tri-dagger, are definitely made up.
** The timeline of the game places Inaros' rebellion as happening at the same time as Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when in real life ''twenty whole years'' separated the two conflicts. In fact, Xerxes had been dead and buried for five years when Inaros revolted against the Persian empire, which by then was ruled by Xerxes' son Artaxerxes.
** The real Leonidas never set foot on Egypt, while his version from the games does in order to help Inaros in Sais. This effectively conflates Leonidas and Sparta with Athens and its statesman Cimon, who did deploy in Egypt to help the rebellion. The game also omits the detail that this Greek force was completely defeated and forced to return to Greece.
** The game makes a strange choice by having Miltiades as the Athenian commander at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, as the real Miltiades died nine years before. By the time the game is set in, Athens was actually led by Themistocles, who was the main driving force behind the Greek resistance against Xerxes in the first place. The game also follows the pop culture trend started by ''Film/ThreeHundred'' where the Spartans were basically alone in Thermopylae and had to sacrifice themselves to move Greece to act.
** Candaules seems to be an original character. That, or he is a time-misplaced Candaules, king of Lydia, who lived two centuries before the game's events.
** In the game, Demaratus and Hydarnes die in the Battle of Thermopylae. In real life, Hydarnes survived to the war and returned safely to Persia, while Demaratus' fate is unknown, with some authors dating his death as an entire year later.
** Shabaka lived in the 8th century, not in the 5th. Oddly, the game itself has a preface commenting Shabaka would eventually become a pharaoh of the XXV dynasty, apparently hoping the players are not knowledgeable enough to know that this would require Shabaka demand to travel 240 years back in time.
** Meritaton's name is anachronistic, as it contains the name of the god Aten, who fell out of favor in Egypt after the scandalous reign of Akhenaten almost a millennium earlier.
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''Ancient Wars: Sparta'' is a RealTimeStrategy videogame released in 2006 by the disappeared Russian developer World Forge. Set in the UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars, it is composed by three campaigns that allow the player play as Sparta, Egypt and the Persian Empire.
[[caption-width-right:270:Prepare for glory.]]
''Ancient Wars: Sparta'' is a RealTimeStrategy videogame released in 2006 by the disappeared Russian developer World Forge. Set in the UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars, it is composed by three campaigns that allow the player play as Sparta, Egypt and the Persian Empire.
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''Ancient Wars: Sparta'' is a RealTimeStrategy videogame released in by the disappeared Russian developer World Forge. Set in the UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars, it is composed by three campaigns that allow the player play as Sparta, Egypt and the Persian Empire.
In the 5th century BC, the world trembles. The mighty Persian Empire, ruled by Achaemenid house, is in midst of a succession crisis. Chosen by the recently deceased King Darius as his heir, the ambitious Xerxes gathers his followers to establish his place in the empire and begin the last will of his father as soon as possible: conquering Greece in order to avenge the humiliating defeat of Marathon.
At the same time, the Greeks are not idle. King Leonidas of Sparta, who has urged the rest of nations of Greece to join him in the defense of their country, is visited by his nephew Pausanias in his camp in Thermopylae. The king tells Pausanias the story of he reached his own throne, which inspires the young warrior to join him. The forces of Athens, led by Milciades, watch the incoming battle, waiting to make a decision.
Meanwhile, Egypt suffers under the chains of the Persian Empire. Young chieftain Inaros is chosen by his Persian satrap to train an army to join the war effort against Greece, but when Inaros' fiancee Meritaton is kidnapped to be offered to the satrap as a gift, he changes his loyalty and begins a rebellion against the Persian rule to bring his beloved back.
The game received a sequel in 2008, ''Fate of Hellas'', portraying the clash between Sparta and Athens in UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar and the rise of Macedon.
!!The video game contains examples of:
* AlternateHistory: Oddly, only the Persian campaign ends as real history went, with the Persians losing in Plataea and it being implied that Artabanus will betray Xerxes. In the Greek one, [[spoiler:Xerxes is killed in Salamina despite in real life he wasn't even there]], while in the Egyptian one, [[spoiler:Inaros trumps Megabyzus when in real life he was defeated]].
* DubNameChange: Bizarrely, the European version changes the names of everybody in the Egyptian campaign, giving them ''Arabian'' names instead. Inaros becomes Hazem, Ahmose is renamed as Ahmed, and Meritaton becomes Rawia. Megabyzus is also turned into a CompositeCharacter with another satrap by being renamed Achaemenes.
In the 5th century BC, the world trembles. The mighty Persian Empire, ruled by Achaemenid house, is in midst of a succession crisis. Chosen by the recently deceased King Darius as his heir, the ambitious Xerxes gathers his followers to establish his place in the empire and begin the last will of his father as soon as possible: conquering Greece in order to avenge the humiliating defeat of Marathon.
At the same time, the Greeks are not idle. King Leonidas of Sparta, who has urged the rest of nations of Greece to join him in the defense of their country, is visited by his nephew Pausanias in his camp in Thermopylae. The king tells Pausanias the story of he reached his own throne, which inspires the young warrior to join him. The forces of Athens, led by Milciades, watch the incoming battle, waiting to make a decision.
Meanwhile, Egypt suffers under the chains of the Persian Empire. Young chieftain Inaros is chosen by his Persian satrap to train an army to join the war effort against Greece, but when Inaros' fiancee Meritaton is kidnapped to be offered to the satrap as a gift, he changes his loyalty and begins a rebellion against the Persian rule to bring his beloved back.
The game received a sequel in 2008, ''Fate of Hellas'', portraying the clash between Sparta and Athens in UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar and the rise of Macedon.
!!The video game contains examples of:
* AlternateHistory: Oddly, only the Persian campaign ends as real history went, with the Persians losing in Plataea and it being implied that Artabanus will betray Xerxes. In the Greek one, [[spoiler:Xerxes is killed in Salamina despite in real life he wasn't even there]], while in the Egyptian one, [[spoiler:Inaros trumps Megabyzus when in real life he was defeated]].
* DubNameChange: Bizarrely, the European version changes the names of everybody in the Egyptian campaign, giving them ''Arabian'' names instead. Inaros becomes Hazem, Ahmose is renamed as Ahmed, and Meritaton becomes Rawia. Megabyzus is also turned into a CompositeCharacter with another satrap by being renamed Achaemenes.
