The game itself is action oriented with just a little turn based gameplay in order to keep it from being a totally twitch based title. In watching the developers play the game itself it's clear that there will be some massive conflicts in Gods and Heroes. In one scene our group of characters encounters a city siege from the outside with Roman troops firing catapults and aiming their arrows against the enemy which includes huge giants that were seen throwing unlucky troopers around like rag dolls. Another mytholgical creature we saw in action was the three headed dog the Chimera who uses all three heads to make you and anyone else he doesn't like into mince meat.

Gods and Heroes has six character classes (Gladitor, Solider, Scout, Rogue, Priest and Mystic) but that number only reveals a part of the variety of characters you will actually be able to play. Each character class can also pick a Roman god to worship and in return that God can give you special powers and attacks that you can use in the game. For instance as a solider you can worship the god of war Mars who will then bestow certain special attacks. You can also gain control of a number of NPC minions in the game that help you out in battle. For example in the demo of the game at the press event we saw our minions take their arrows to attack fire casters while other minions blocked the fire attacks with their shields.