2.5/5 ★ – MalcolmBoyd's review of Ryse: Son of Rome.

For the first ten minutes I thought "hell yeah, this is sick", but that ten minutes was basically repeated verbatim for about 4 hours. Which, on the one hand is super short, on the other hand, the game is so repetitive that it still outstayed its welcome for me. Add some "Protect X or Y" sections into the mix and I was just waiting for this to end. Then there's an awesome section in the colliseum, which seems like the climax, but no. There was still another 45 mins or so. There was definitely fun to be had, but not enough for me to recommend this, or come back to it myself in the future.