Colosseum

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Colosseum is a Single Player modification for Jedi Outcast, developed by Jake Keating in 2003. Unlike many other SP projects, Colosseum is set in real life universe during the times of Ancient Rome.

Story

The Player is offered the role of Gluteus, a thief condemned for stealing from a noble man, who is a close friend of the Emperor himself. Put into prison cell, he awaits his trial, but is thrown into battle on the arena as a gladiator. He finds, that he is not alone there, as a girl named Athena is also kept prisoner here – she explains the motives and some traditions of the gladiators fights in the arena, when the prison overseer comes to mock Gladius on his soon demise and to show what fate is awaiting beyond the gates - a fight with best of the best gladiators.

Gladius sees a large arena, full of crowd, waiting to see a spectacular show with blood and death. The gladiator Thraex comes close by the gates and instantly slaughters two slaves. Soon afterwards Gladius is sent to the arena to much amusement of the public.

After defeating Thraex, Gladius walks into the centre of the arena to fight Retiarius. Upon defeating him Gladius spares the life of the slave and returns to the basement to replenish his strength. However the Emperor and his friends aren't satisfied with the previous fights, and seeing that Gladius and Athena have become close, it is decided to send them to the arena to "die together". Outside the gates they see rose petals fall slowly, as the battle soon begins this time with Athena they have to fight three gladiators at once.

The victory of Gladius infuriates the Emperor even further, as he orders the legionnaires to kill the gladiators. Athena asks her counterpart to call for the help of other slaves in the basement, while she holds off the soldiers. Having fought off all the legioneers in the basement, Gladius releases other gladiators, who rush into the arena to aid outnumbered Athena. To much amusement of the spectators, they all engage in an intense and bloody battle, but in the end defeat all the enemies and leave the arena.

As Athena and Gladius leave the Colosseum, they are no longer slaves and can enjoy their freedom and love.

Gameplay

The Player is offered to play an ordinary man, thus there are no Jedi powers or modern weapons. Gladius can only use a sword to fight off the enemies and a few medpacks on the arena if injured. All the enemies have been replaced with new NPCs, which represent well-made models of people of Ancient Rome times. A few reskins were made for Mon Mothma, Tavion and Luke Skywalker to look like Prison Overseer, Athena and a slave respectively.

The mod includes one level, which is divided into several battles. The Player has to pass all the trials in order to get freedom. In many cases the story is followed by small messages about the history of Rome.

Development

The author included a detailed diary of his process on the mod's website. It shows various steps in creating the story, the textures and level, as well as new characters. The music is taken from several sources, including the original motion picture soundtracks for Ronin and Gladiator.