Sentences with phrase «of gladiatorial games»

Free from all pretense of constraint by historical fact, the writing team of David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson crafted a simple but stirring action - adventure yarn cloaked in the pomp of the Roman Empire and the grizzly spectacle of gladiatorial games.

Whether one considers the cessation of the gladiatorial games in the days of the early church, the ending of savage bestial games in Wilberforce's day, or the banning of dueling in the nineteenth century, Christians have often led the culture in critical analysis of its pastimes.

Not exact matches

He went against the projection of the game as a very serious and gladiatorial battle, against the gritted teeth and crunching tackles, against the super efficiency and grand narratives.

It focuses on a team of players that are in a gladiatorial type game of capture the flag (or tower in this case).

The star player of a gladiatorial future sport is ordered to retire by the corporate executives who see his popularity as a threat to their totalitarian grip on society, but when he resists they begin to change the rules of the game to ensure his failure.

Rise of the Argonauts immerses gamers in a gladiatorial adventure, set in wondrously imagined vision of ancient Greece.

Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech - savvy 27 - year - old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years.

I know that analogy may be a bit of a stretch, but the goal of the two is to manipulate the citizens with fear and desperation, yet mask it all with gladiatorial games like Roman Caesars.

Hiding in a pile of bodies, Milo manages to escape death until he is caught and sold into slavery where he becomes a fan - favourite at the local gladiatorial games and is thus moved to Pompeii's much more extravagant games.

The game does support multiplayer as you can join a friend in co-op at the Colosseum for classic gladiatorial waves of enemies.

The full PC game will be available October 10th and will come with all 4 DLC Packs (The Colosseum Pack, The Mars Chosen Pack, The Duel of Fates Pack and the Morituri Pack), Cooperative gladiatorial combat in the Colosseum, Colosseum Mode with 25 multiplayer maps and customization options for your gladiator with new armour, weapons, shields and consumables.

Perhaps the purest distillation of the game's tendencies, multiplayer entirely discards any pretext toward historical recreation, gleefully offering a Sisyphean gladiatorial arena in which the Allies and Axis are forever fighting, returning to the same war - torn European city blocks and shell - burned patches of forest for eternity.

a 1984 Taito game of one - hit kills achieved through fencing, kendo, and gladiatorial combat.