Gladiator Heroes Arena Legends Reviews

The classes are imbalanced; dual wielders are overpowered, two-handers are terrible, the only units that seem to drop are sword and board units which appear to have the worst skills. The drop rates are terrible, every time I’ve used a summon item I’ve always pulled the lowest rarity possible. Pay walls early in the game coupled with horrible implementation of resources make this game slow and too much grind. The game starts you off in Auto when you fight which is too bad for players who don’t immediately notice the auto switch because it takes away turns and doesn’t allow a player to actually learn how to play/fight at the beginning of the game. All in all it’s an okay game if your looking for a Clash clone with semi original combat, and you don’t mind sinking a few months/years or money on it. But if you were like me looking for a quality, entertainment>money, fun/casual game, then I do not think you will find it here.

Two weekends in a row in game support refuses to help with an issue last week they had an issue in their purchasing that locked my Tunes account and suggested I restart my phone... I contacted iTunes and they corrected in ten minutes. This week their item which is supposed to keep you from losing training levels lowered all my gladiators to no training I sent a support ticket and they said we had to wait for the item to wear off... three days before they can fix my account. I’m in a clan war and there’s an event this weekend I can’t take part in because these guys won’t just fix their game. I’m going to be opening a ticket with iTunes to try and get all my spending refunded if they don’t at least try to make his right. They finally responded saying they have a small team but still don’t offer a solution... It’s funny the answered the original post in under two minutes but won’t answer again for I’ve 24 hours... they obviously don’t care about the game only taking what money they can get from their customers. I have asked iTunes for a refund on all purchases and am waiting on the paperwork.

This game was pretty fun for awhile. The AR was a breath of fresh compare to other games. Like others mention, the game loses it appeal when your HQ reaches about lvl 10 and your Gladiator reaches rank 3. At that point you will literally spend more gold healing your hero than you gain from a battle. Basically every battle you are coming out negative gold of your gladiators get hurt. The part where it shows how bad they are want your money is when you play the missions from the past area, after 3 times you won’t get any reward or chest, only exp for your hero to level up. This lvl up part requires you to spend more gold. Also you can’t heal hero’s and upgrade/train them at the same time which is stupid. The missions that I can gain rewards from are unbeatable for me. I don’t know how they calculate the battle levels but my highest hero’s is 960 and other 2 are 700. I’m now facing 3 gladiator that’s totals at about 3400. The slow builds are stupid too. Ex you need stone/iron to upgrade your Hq or necessary buildings, but you have a way to mine them until you are like 2 lvls higher.

Going to delete the game in 3 days.

This game is almost completely pay to play. Your Gladiators, no matter how strong are put up against Ai that is always way stronger and smarter than yours. You Earn Gold through matches but it is completely unbalanced because of the amount of Gold and time it takes to even heal your gladiators, making progress in the game painfully slow...and I Mean days upon days at a time. You may ended up playing 3 to 4 matches a day before you have to sit completely idle for hours and hours since you Need your gladiators to heal in order for you to earn a tiny bit of gold...which is then spent again on healing in-turn frustrating you to the point of using the tiny amount of crystals you obtain. This game has a lot of potential but currently it is more frustrating than fun. If you plan on throwing cash into the game just to slightly improve and then have to throw more real cash to Stay a float. By all means have fun. Otherwise...stay away until improvements are made. You’ve Been Warned...

Update:

Like some other reviewers the game was fun until level 3 and then is nearly unplayable. Fights are far too hard to win even for your best gladiators, making it nearly impossible to level your less experienced gladiators.

They have a Christmas event going that is so overpowered that the first fight killed all of my gladiators without doing more than a few points of damage.

Let me be clear, I have spent more money on this game than any other phone game I have played and this is still happening. Save your money and find something you’ll enjoy for more than a few weeks
My original review is below

This game is a lot of fun when it works. It takes a long time to load. It takes a long time to sync with the server when you switch screens to come back to it. If anything interrupts your game (like a low power warning) it will sync with the server again. If there is an update it will not let you play until you install it (so don’t expect to play while traveling unless you want to spend the data) and every time it does an update you will spend hours fighting with it to acknowledge the update was downloaded and installed (Also not letting you play).

I really want to like this game and have spent money on it. When it works it is a lot of fun. I even considered their monthly subscription, but I can’t justify it for a game with these kinds of uptime problems

I’ve been playing this game for a good while and have learned this developers trick at making the user pay to enjoy the game. 1st of all they make you wait a lot. Battles result in gladiators getting hurt. Then you put them in a hospital for a long time. But here is the kicker there is a VIP mode where you can pay $6.99 for a 50% reduction in wait times. Also you can spend your hard earned cash to buy Red Gems (in game currency) and apply that towards healing your gladiators quickly so you can actually play the game. Also building structures is very time consuming but again VIP mode allows you to build two structures at the same time.... this game unfortunately just finds several ways to make you spend money.... (The list is Endless at how much money you gotta spend to play this game how you expect to). Apple Please Work On Eliminating or Reducing the Madness That Is “Pay To Win” & Now With Games Like This “Pay To Just Play Without Waiting All Day” it’s not fun to be digitally manipulated... Game developers are going to go down like bankers did back in the recession but not for fraud but Psychological Manipulation of the audience to convert them into a dependent paying customer...

If you want a first experience on what a pay to win game looks like. You start off with. 2-3 star, which is decent because nobody gets a generic character, WRONG. Although you do get your very own gladiator it will always be male, why is that you ask? Because only the males gets the shield and sword. There is no other kind of weapon wield you can get unless you upgrade your “town hall” or whatever it’s called. You are also not allowed to build multiple of things at once, but you can get 2nd build for a monthly subscription, talk about greedy. This game isn’t all pay to win, but believe me, in a week you’ll get tired of this game and delete this. In the gladiator wars, which is basically like pvp. There is no chance for you to win against somebody who used their cash, they’re basically like a overlord compared to you.

This game is a total disaster, and really sexist too. Download this if you feel like wasting your time. The only good thing about this game is it’s support service and AR.

The first day or so is the “honeymoon” period where you can play as much as you like constantly upgrade your characters, but after that it’s downhill. The game becomes stale & slow, battle once wait 10+ min to heal your character or pay gems (pay to play) to play right away & keep getting rewards. That brings me to my next point, REWARDS.
I had over 40 unclaimed rewards & I couldn’t use any of them because you have to collect rewards in the order you receive them or you lose them. So my armory was not upgraded to carry more weapons, I waited over a day to upgrade my armory because I didn’t want to pay gems. I could of course waste the first 20 of my unclaimed rewards on weapons to get some wood, but why would you throw away materials you rightfully earned. I understand the capacity limit but allow the players to choose at their own volition, obvious cash grab their.

Last thing to say to get a premium (top of the line MAYBE) character you need 8000 gems. That’s equivalent to $80. Mind you want a solid team of 6 for continues heal & play (If your unclaimed rewards order cooperates that is). So you would need about $500 just to be top tier. The other option is play the game one time a day for 10 minutes & lose interest over time lol

When will someone make a legit F2P enjoyable game???

Check out the other reviews - This one is a pretty basic "clock hostage" money farmer. It isn't pay-to-play in the strictest technical sense, but in terms of practicality yes, it is in fact pay-to-play. The developers vomit up impediment after impediment after impediment to make your progress absurdly slow -- and if you DO pay, it is only very marginally less slow and full of obstructions. And on top of all that, the VIP system, which in most other MMO games like this are simply purchased 30 days at a time, these guys do the subscription model, just to make it that much little bit harder to stop giving them money.

These are the actions of folks who have no interest in providing a fun gaming experince that makes you WANT to support the devs. Rather, they do the bare minimum required to try to get people to throw some money at them, and play the numbers game. This one is not worth your time, and above all it is *NOT* worth giving them a single penny.

Loved this game as per the post below, however, there is a major flaw. To upgrade town center to lvl 7 you need 6000 stone. To build a stone vault which allows you to accumulate the 6000stone you need to spend 2000 stone...and to build a quarry which makes stone you need to be lvl 7. In other words once you reach lvl6 you will sit there for an eternity waiting to earn enough stone from battle. Used to be a 5star rating. Now...barely a 2.

Fantastic game. Almost didn’t download because of all the reviews about how it’s pay to play but it simply isn’t true. I have and never will pay anything for a mobile game and am doing great in this one. Gold is backing up on me as is wood for building and my gladiators are still rocking it in battle. No money needed for a really fun gaming experience. Only gripe is that the auto-battle algorithm takes a lot of the strategy away. If I could choose which opponent is the primary target it would be a much better but other than that bravo!

Very fun game and i spent about 30 bucks on. But like other said it just becomes unplayable past h.q. lvl 8. I would spend more money overtime if they made the game more playable longer without constant pay to play. Too greedy.

Problems and suggestions:
1) healing times too long
2) there should be an auto heal like in 5 hrs your gladiator will self heal 100% with no coins or gems needed
3) we need a trade system where we can trade wood, stone, iron for gold.
4) gladiators even my mythical one and ones with high power still get hurt by lower powered gladiators. And the constant need to wait and heal or pay a lot to heal is game breaking
5) we need more gold produced, given from battles or selling items. More ways to get gold.
6) we need more content up front without having to pay.
7) joining a clan is actually hard. I sent many requests and got good stats but no one accepted it.
8) every gem thing or package is so overpriced. Stop being greedy and youll make more money overtime and have more users for longer.
9) vip subscription needs more perks maybe free healing to be worth it. Right now it is worth maybe 2 bucks a month. But 7 bucks a month is insane for what you get.
10) should get vip level up points that unlock more vip permanent perks the more you spend or gems you use or buy.

Overall it’s a fun and different mobile game that bares resemblance to town building RPGs of the same genre. It combines elements of Clash of Clans and other popular mobile RPGs with it’s own merits. The greatest thing this game has going for it is it’s character progression system. As you level up a character you can choose passive and active skills along the way, taking the generic classes into more specialized builds. You have way more control of your characters compared to normal troops in most other games of this type. Essentially it’s like having a team of only Heroes from Clash of Clans. The biggest issues so far are: limit of one build/one upgrade at a time, awful friendly AI behavior when not using abilities, and lack of resources given by playing previously completed stages.

Since last update, the game shuts down during battles. Very annoying to play. Used to be a fun game with clan battles, but that doesn’t work anymore either. Development team needs programmers that know what they are doing. Get it together guys. It's a good game if you just fix it.

Update:
Downloaded update this morning. Been playing on and off all day and I’m happy to report that the game no longer shuts down every time you try to do a battle. It still shuts down, but only three times so far today and not during battles. Another improvement is that it looks like even when it shuts down, you don’t seem to loose your progress before the shut down. Nice job guys. There’s still a lot of fixing to do, but it looks like you’re on the right track. Giving it a couple more stars
One more thing, it appears that the battles for the Wild Arena event are grossly mismatched. I can’t even put a scratch on my opponents with my strongest gladiators. Needless to say I can’t even beat the first of six battles. Something wrong with that algorithm

Graphics are nice. Characters are not customizable. No overt “Clock hostage” tactics.

You fight enemies in gladiator battles which requires a tiny bit of strategy, but it has auto-battle choice during gameplay. You will run out of storage space for items pretty fast which is why the Slow-Build aspect gets annoying over time, but you can choose not to open win chests at your camp until later if you don’t have the storage space yet (which is another star added in this review for the developers). It’s pretty much rather unchanging gameplay like this from there out. As far as Slow Build games go, this one is less annoying than most.

Slow-Build Game Type. But average build time is about 1 hour per upgrade (not exponential build times like most Clock Hostage games). You earn money & items in battles and slow generator camp items which give you wood, gold, stone.

I have been patiently waiting over 2 months for training boosters to be fixed because I don’t have the time every day to play and keep every single Gladiator at max training. I have invested a good sum of money into this game and am getting more frustrated with each day. I’ve contacted support several, several times about this issue and they have done nothing but say “the issue will be fixed soon.” 2+ months later and nothing. I thoroughly enjoy playing this game and still enjoy continuing to play but this issue needs to be resolved ASAP! For this reason alone, I give the game 3/5. I understand the support team is in Spain and therefore operate on a different time zone and because of that, often take a while to respond but this issue has been ongoing for several months and is making the game nearly unplayable. PLEASE FIX

Weak on strategy, of the buildings...
Also why do I need more than 1 building to train a gladiator of same class ? Isn’t one building for each class is already enough . (I would think so) right ? What about adding stat points for each gladiator that can be added by the player, & not just stats points but so each class for each gladiator u can peak one supper special ability that other gladiators cannot get !
I mean I’m thinking out of box Bcz the money this game cost to play worth being upgraded and made better. For now all I see is about half of clash of clans In a different style, I’m sure u can do more to this game.

Well it is a good game and I love it because I love Roman history. It is a good game, it gives you the chance to own gladiators and advance through the levels. But it does take time to heal your gladiators, which makes sense but I feel like I always have to use my gems to do stuff. I am fine with spending money on a game but not that much. So some pointers is make the game more inter active. I fell like people would like a mode were you are a gladiator I feel that I would give the game a fresh new feel. That some things that would be good. I feel like you could change how much you have to spend to upgrade your city because you have to upgrade your town hall and then that takes hours and then when it is done you don’t have enough materials to upgrade the building that you wanted to.

I started playing this game years ago. I got bored and dropped it twice but picked it back up because it is a good game. I even spent a few hundred dollars on the game. Now I’m back wanting to play and it looks like the game has been abandoned. Not sure what is going on. I can’t join a clan and when I formed a clan of my own, nothing happened. I can’t even quit my own clan. I’m hoping that the developers will pick the game back up, make improvements and reward richly those that are still in the game. Let’s revive this before all the players decide to abandon the game too.

I think it’s a Great Gladiator Game; it has decent sound effects and great graphics!. I Hope the Game Creators will add the option to buy out the ads; I don’t think anyone likes ads… I don’t know why they haven’t taken out ads with money permanently; even if it’s 20 Dollars… which I think it’s reasonable!. Can the Creators add the option to buy or sell every type of resource; like wood, rocks, and metal; I really would like that you can sell it because it would easier to get by and upgrade; please the buy and sell option on the next update!!. Hope they Continue Upgrading the Game and Adding More Things to Do!. I Hope this last for Ever… Your Player KingOfAngels and KingOfTheHazel Eyes KingIssac!.

I have been playing this game for several months and have felt the frustration of “buggy” performance which caused several features not to work properly or at all. The developer team took a lot of criticism and heat for the constant issues such as training loss, fame resets, game crashes which resulted in dead or defeated gladiators.... this list could go on. My point is, they put a whole new look to the game and I have not found a single issue with any of the new updates. Instead of apologies and excuses, the team leaned in hard to deliver a diamond from the rough, and I believe this is the game they envisioned it to be. You can pay to play if you want, but I have received plenty of top level gear to include Clash of Gods spear, Painkiller dual wield swords, the Flame two hand axe, and Imperator sword all rank 5 level 10 items. Back to clan wars.... Lightning Strike is the clan to beat!!!