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Gladius is a tactical RPG in which the player fights in Roman gladiatorial battles. Alas, it wasn't quite finished resulting in some rather serious bugs, a cut ending, and (for Xbox/PS2) poor load times.
Unused Cutscene#
The game data contains a cutscene for a cut phase of the final battle against the Dark God (Dark God Shiva).
Unused Encounter#
The cut phase of the boss fight against the Dark God is still in the game's data as "DarkGodShiva.enc". This also includes all other files that are needed to load an encounter, like the scenery-file, camera intro animation, gridfiles and the battle script.
// Copyright (c) 2003, LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
// Version 0.0
// DarkGodShiva.enc
// Saved by derekf
ENCOUNTERNAME: "DarkGodShiva"
URSULAEASE: 0
VALENSEASE: 0
SCENE: "Nordagh\darkgod\darkgod3.scn"
GRIDFILE: "$l\Nordagh\darkgod\darkgod3nomove.grd"
CAMERATRACK: "intro","$l\Nordagh\darkgod\darkgod3IntroAnim.pan"
BATTLESCRIPT: "battle_DarkGodShiva.scp"
TOTALPOP: -1
CANDIE:
TEAM: 0, 0
GRIDFILE: "$d\encounters\Nordagh\darkgod\darkgod3playerstart.grd"
UNITDB: "Ursula", 100, "Start1", 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, "", "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
UNITDB: "Valens", 100, "Start1", 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, "", "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
UNITDB: "", 100, "Start1", 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, "", "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
UNITDB: "", 100, "Start1", 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, "", "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
UNITDB: "", 100, "Start1", 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, "", "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
TEAM: 1, 0
GRIDFILE: "$d\encounters\Nordagh\darkgod\darkgod3shivastart.grd"
SCHOOL: "Dark God"
UNITDB: "Kalaratri", 100, "Start1", 0, 0, 1, 0, -1, "", "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
UNITDB: "Kalikamata", 100, "Start2", 0, 0, 1, 0, -1, "", "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0
UNITDB: "Dragon_shiva", 100, "Start3", 0, 0, 1, 0, -1, "", "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1Unused Gladiator Classes#
Channeler from Southern Expanse#
The classdefs.tok-file lists the gladiator class "ChannelerExp" which never appears in the game. Probably this Channeler class was just a regional variant of the Channeler class from Imperia for the Southern Expanse. The game crashes if it has to load this class since the model does not exist in the game's data.
CREATECLASS: ChannelerExp
DISPLAYNAMEID: 4468
DESCRIPTIONID: 7749
UNITSETNAME: "Channeler"
SKILLUSENAME: "Channeler"
VOICELINEPREFIX: "CHE"
SOUNDTABLENAME: "ChannelerExp"
MESH: "channelerExp"Dark God Shiva#
The models, animations class definition and skills for the Shiva phase of the endboss fight are still in the game, but unused since the encounter was cut.
CREATECLASS: DarkGodShiva
DISPLAYNAMEID: 6082
DESCRIPTIONID: 0
UNITSETNAME: "DarkGod"
SKILLUSENAME: "DarkGod"
SOUNDTABLENAME: "DarkGodShiva"
MESH: "darkGodShiva"
HEADICON: "darkGod.tga"Althaag's Inventory#
Althaag, the accessory dealer in Nordagh, has remnants that suggest his inventory was supposed to expand as the game progressed, instead of having everything from the start. This would make his dialog referencing getting new stuff in make sense.
Design Notes#
Throughout the game's files that list the leagues and their battles for each town, the developers have added "DESIGNNOTES" that describe the requirements for the league, how the AI should act and other additional information.
Notes from the file "stadiumdreas_leagues.tok".
LEAGUE "MultiplayerLoving_MP", 6458
LEAGUEDESC 0
LEAGUEPTS -1
ENCPTSNEEDED 0
ONHOVER 0 0
ONSELECT 0 0
ONWIN 0
//
ENCOUNTER "Dreas_2P", 7699
ENCDESC 7700
DESIGNNOTES "Happy friendly multiplayer battle for testing this wonderful feature that should never be cut. No. Never. We need it. Just ask God."Note from the "thefen_leagues.tok"-file:
ENCOUNTER "ContestOfFreePeoples2", 5320
ENCDESC 5321
DESIGNNOTES "Will be a statue kill battle as soon as I can order individual dudes to prioritize targets."Unused Script Codes#
A function exists to automatically pass a gladiator's turn if no input is made, but the time is set to -1 so the function never applies.
(Source: This GameFAQs post on the datamine])
Scriptcode#
The game's data contains all scripts in compiled and uncompiled format. This includes some Testscripts like this funny Dialog demo that implies that Brendan (maybe Brendan Ferguson, listed as Gameplay Programmer in the credits) is the creator of the main characters Ursula and Valens. Here is a shortened version of the file:
globals = InterfaceGlobals()
tb = globals.CreateTalkBox (30.0, 30.0, "Ursula", "Ursula");
// Set up all of the text panels
tb.SetText("Hello. Welcome to the TalkBox demo.");
tb.AddText("<b>Brendan</b> is the <c=ff0000ff>coolest</c> guy I know.");
tb.AddText("Wouldn't you agree?");
// Here are the two choices that will appear on the last panel
tb.Choice("Certainly."); // Choice #1
tb.Choice("You must be kidding."); // Choice #2
// The script will now wait until the player makes the choice
tb.WaitUntilMadeChoice();
choice = tb.GetChoice();
if (choice == 1) // If they chose Choice #1
// Put up new text in the TalkBox
tb.SetText("You're smarter than you look.");
tb.AddText("See you around.");
else // If they chose choice #2
tb.SetText("No one disses our man Brendan.");
tb.AddText("Hey Valens! We got someone talking smack about our creator!");
// Create a different TalkBox
tb2 = globals.CreateTalkBox (250.0, 250.0, "Valens", "Valens")
tb2.SetText("What?! Who do you think you are?");
tb2.AddText("If I weren't a fictional computer character, I'd whoop you.");
endif Debugging Features#
Gladius has a debug menu and some debug printouts, which are enabled through cheat code devices for the PS2 version. To unlock the debug menu use this code Z67D-RUM5-PK6A5 Q574-0HQ9-GVFUY.