Roman Empire on X-Box

[Kegluneq]

There haven't been any games in the ancient world for console. The only thing close is the Empire in The Elder Scrolls, and some japanese like Colosseum game which was more anime than Gladiatorial Combat.

Well, not recently. Shadow of Rome was an awesome PS2 game that combined stealth game play with arena-based gladiatorial combat,with the ludicrous twist that you played as the young Octavian in the first role and as Agrippa in the latter. It was set following the death of Caesar and is as ahistorical and bonkers as you would expect.

There's been very little of the current generation that would also count, as far as I can tell. The first village in Dragon's Dogma looks Mediterranean (there are Roman-style oil lamps everywhere and villagers dressed in tunics), and some heavily Roman-inspired elements in Skyrim. Ezio Auditore also dons (appropriately inaccurate) lorica segmentata in the Coliseum in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, but that's in the context of a Renaissance Passion Play...