First keep in mind that while dealing is a Hack and Slash game does not mean that one should press the attack button endlessly like crazy, it is essential to understand that knowing pressing buttons at the right time is critical, is to evolve the fight, either to score or even to level up or survive longer in survival arenas.

That said, it is important to note that a balanced gladiator provide you the conditions to achieve your goal faster, while the opposite will cause die faster hurting yourself and your partner, for this you will have to leave the fighting to help it does become more vulnerable to attacks and making it much more difficult to keep the combinations.

A part of those who have played Ryse claim that the game is obvious and repetitive, this happens because they are unable to realize or did not play enough to observe the various nuances of combat (specifically the survival of fighting), because each arena has its own characteristics, each Gladiator setting has its own characteristics, if your goal is just to get the steam achievements, perhaps suffice, but if you really want to take full advantage of the game, this will involve combat tactics, correct positioning in the arena, away from your partner, location of "nests" barbarians, regeneration of hit points and focus, combat behavior towards his partner, knowledge of the characteristics of each are single arena etc ... making the game much deeper than many realize.


Using enviroment for executions


Combo of 2000x

Choosing the right equipment according to each of skills, it is one of the keys to having a balanced gladiator, that meets the wishes of the player.

• When it starts, your gladiator will be extremely fragile. Choose Apollo as their god (since this offers bonus to your life bar every execution) to avoid death until your equipment better. Their health regeneration will keep you alive and the focus of slowdown is a major offensive weapon.
  
  
• Unlock the rewards of the Gods as quickly as possible (Apollo probably will unlock early due to your great bonus of execution. However, when you have a bit more survivability, try to unlock the rewards of Jupiter and Diana, since They offer a weapon and shield to become the best for initial levels of experience.
  
  
• When you purchase more experience increase your bonus XP, sustainable limits of their skills so that it is not too weak to the point of sacrificing playing time. You can, without sacrificing other bonuses initially additional 5-10% may not seem like much, but it could become significant before its natural gain per round completed, your bonus will be higher as it is able to produce more and therefore the reward in gold that can be used in the purchase of equipment.

• Crowd bonus - Provides a bonus to the final amount of gold. What the crowd paid at the end of a round. However, it is increased in increments of 5%, thus, unless their bonus increase to the next round this is wasted. Relatively useless.
  
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• XP gain bonuses - should be the ultimate goal for your equipment. Raise it as far as your equipment will allow, without having negative effects. 5 or 10% may not seem like much, but it will provide a significant gain in proportion to their ability to score, modify it as they develop their skills.
  
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• Health Regeneration - Increases the amount of life recovered after each successful execution. Important at first, especially if you are not using Apollo to gain health with their performances. It is an important feature to have as it can help you passively throughout the game.
  
  
• Health quantity - How much health each capsule contains. Passively useful and practical if you are having problems of survival, it will interfere with the other features of your gladiator making choice either, modify according to their abilities.
  
  
• Health Capsules - Make it as a whole than most other types of health bonus, as it adds capsules whole to your health bar. Similar to bonuses crowd, but each additional health capsule means longer survival.
  
  
• Focus gain - Increases the amount of focus acquired after a successful execution. Very important if you use a god with little focus gain (Apollo, Diana, Mars). If you are not practiced enough against tougher enemies or accumulate ridiculous combinations, enhance this feature and use Jupiter will allow you to focus everywhere. Remembering always that you should be aware of your skills so you can correctly measure that will be just right for you.
  
  
• Focus quantity - Increases the amount of focus each capsule in his bar. Used passively if you use focus attacks, especially when combined with Jupiter and its focus regenerative capacity.
  
  
• Focus capsules - Increases the amount of focus capsules available. Used passively if you use attack site, as you increase your available maximum you can use this ability more often, especially when combined with Jupiter's ability to regeneration focus.
  
  
• Focus time - Increases the amount of focus time every time is up. It works passively if you use focus attacks, especially when combined with Jupiter focus of regenerative capacity.
  
  
• Inventory - Number of spears (pilums) that carry with you during battle. It is usually not useful except for a few rare cases. Much better will increase your experience gains with features such as health gain, gain XP etc. Increase other features before instead of this.

• Jupiter - Allows impressively long combos with your focus, thanks to rapid regeneration of focus also available to deal with more difficult enemies. The power to more useful focus for use in executions that allow regeneration of health and focus, thus making this combination with a god of paramount importance. (especially after getting all the rewards of the gods).
  
  
• Mars - Increases damage after successful runs with burns enemies around you when your focus is on. Unfortunately, the increase in damage not last long enough to be very helpful and constantly have their combination of expectations thrown away (when you need enemies to run in order to maintain his life and combination and arena is clean). The fire focus is good against large groups, but against stronger enemies requires two or three blasts to kill. After getting his reward weapon, avoid the use of this god.
  
  
• Apollo - God Best game to be used when it is starting. Their executions regenerate your health and are the best answer to the problems of staying alive. It works great in co-op as it passively heals your ally when you run an enemy. Focus your attack is almost as good as Jupiter and it's great to have a hand. Use Apollo until you can survive without it.
  
  
• Diana - Increased XP is useful all the time (as would be expected). Unfortunately, your focus attack is less useful in the game. It just keeps all enemies around you and stuns for half a second. Can be useful if you are surrounded in a dangerous area as it may remove him from imminent risks. She is a goddess for a game purpose (gain XP points), so that should adapt to its focus style as this will keep you more exposed than any other god in the game, so need greater fighting abilities without the use of focus.

Rewards of the Gods are obtained by finishing rounds (complete, incomplete rounds do not count). When you complete a round, one bar appears below the picture of the reward in the choice of god screen and begin to fill up. When the bar is full, the item is unlocked and placed in the inventory of his gladiator.

Importantly, these rewards will be very useful for learning, though you can buy much better equipment as they level up.

Thunder Of Jupiter

2% Bonus Crowd
2% Bonus XP
20% Focus Gain

Measure of Mars
30% Focus Gain
15% Focus Time

Canopy of Diana

4% Bonus XP
+3 Inventory Size

Strength Of Apollo

1% Bonus Crowd
1% Bonus XP
+2 Inventory Size

Each also has a unique reward that is unlocked by playing 10 rounds as his representative.

Some information is especially important for those who are starting in the game and even some more experienced. (Survival)

1) As already stated in other sections of the guide choose your equipment according to your skills does not exceed its limits because it will cause you and your partner.

2) During combat not only the attack is important, but especially the defense as this will ensure that your survivor extend, otherwise easy target, so learn to use your shield and bearing so using and enjoying your set of skills with these items to protect themselves from attacks of enemies.

3) Always keep a stock of potions that helped you in your fight in the arena, choose those that best suit their skills, generally the rebirth of potions are a good choice.

4) During the fight, keep a certain distance from your partner so that proximity does not interfere with play.

5) Try to avoid attack an enemy being attacked by her partner, because besides interfering in his fight you will cause it to lose its combination, run the risk of being hit as it can be run depending on this to survive. Remember that co-op is what bonus won by one of the partners will serve for two (it is logical that in some extreme cases you might come to hurt this rule).

6) Excess of double executions may cause runs out the enemies on the screen prompting some valuable seconds until they get more, thus avoid them in extreme situations, unless you are using the Apollo as it will fill the health bar of both.

7) Combine with your partner (if possible) the position in the arena of each as this will make it easier to find enemies and find a partner if you need help.

8) Make no mistake, the regeneration pillars will be useful in extreme situations, but what really keeps him alive are executions.

9) Whenever saved by his partner and noted that there are enemies around, lift already using their focus as well protect your partner and yourself from being hit by them.

10) There are arenas in which you'll have to worry about anything but the enemy in close combat, such as archers and launchers arrows and catapults, delete them as soon as possible.


Eliminating the archers

11) Knowing how to fight your partner is also important because it will allow you to anticipate behaviors and combating times when you should help avoiding that the same die.

12) All rules above will lead you to have the most important of all, which is control of the environment where the situation remains in your hand and you have combat controlled their skills keeps everything stable, however if any of the items fail all may enter collapse leading to defeat.

Dockyard record

My combo record

For original general analysis of the game see the link below:

Analysis - Ryse Son of Rome (in Portuguese)

Those who like action games and enjoy first graphics, surely this game will be a big requested, although the single player mode has really short (approximately 6-7 hours long), yet in my opinion is a great game. The story may be cliché, but for an action game is a good story that contributes directly to the immersion provided by the game in which you end up feeling as if it were part of the character itself. The fights are very well done, not to mention the executions and combos are one of those responsible for the quality of the game (did I mention the quality of the graphics). It is really fun. The multi player complements very well the game allowing you many hours of constant action, either in solo mode or cooperative mode.


As for the multi player can say:

- The number of questions might be higher
- Could allow survival mode in soil

Good points:

- Graphics quality
- History (even though many do not like)
- Game Dynamics
- Gameplay


Negative points:

- Stuttering at certain points of the independent game resolution used (though not disturb much, but for those who want to play with 60 FPS riveted sometimes bothers also important to say that in multi player mode does not happen that and the game runs smooth with 60. FPS in any arena).
- The fact of not having a map editor and a dedicated server, which would add a plus, and ensure an even greater extent the game.

Conclusion:
Indeed, before the above I would recommend as it has been what I have most played in the last days, I left to other games at the time (The Witcher 3 for example) in order to play it, because like his mechanics.