Gladiator Hits Review

SUMMARY

We decided to review Gladiator Hits as a special feature because it attracted lots of attention from within the surfing community. As a consequence its membership swelled in days to what other Traffic Exchanges hope for over several months.

Strongly themed is one way of describing Gladiator Hits. It is without doubt the first of a new breed of Traffic Exchanges designed around a powerful theme that is both publicly recognizable as well as being one that conjures easily with the imagination. Surprisingly, and perhaps for some a relief, no Gladiator theme music is present when you first arrive. Chances are it was considered and thought too gimmicky but hey, it would have raised a smile from most.
Gladiator Hits has not simply been thrown together, there is evidence of painstaking effort to ensure that site construction truly reflects an appropriate atmosphere throughout. OK the surf script is ostensibly a standard mechanism found at other Exchanges but that is all, for its design and make no mistake, this is what makes Gladiator Hits a new breed that separates it from its rivals, will be the potential for Gladiator Hits to develop in ways other Exchanges will find hard to mimic. For example imagine how the designers can develop potential games for either cash or credits that revolve solely around this specific theme.
It would be easy to allow imagination to run amok and suspect that the Caesar's at Gladiator Hits intend to overwhelm their rivals with some clever strategy and ultimately create a Traffic Exchange Empire second to none! Hail Caesar!

SURFING EXPERIENCE

With a standard 3 frame designed script that heavily utilizes a theme in order that it remains individually distinctive, it was unlikely that the surf arena at Gladiator Hits had been built for speed or even if it had, would be able to compete with the fastest surf arena's that we've currently tested such as found at Blue Surf. But then that would be missing the point, which is that Gladiator Hits is taking Traffic Exchanges towards new goals. Traffic Exchanges need to develop their entertainment value and Gladiator Hits already possesses solid foundations for that feature.
Winning bonus credits whilst surfing can happen in two ways, either you receive a bonus by having surfed a set number of pages (15-17) - and be careful not to miss the text alert that tells you you've won, or else complete Gladiator words in red for example: ENTER THE COLOSSEUM.
The three frame browsing script works well with minimal delays. However we encountered several pages with pop ups that either triggered our anti-virus software or simply increased the page loading. This did not appear to impact on the timer in most instances. It has to be said though that pop-ups were an annoying distraction.
A clever text ad is displayed on the frame bar inside an oblong button that appears in either the top or bottom frames. It's clever because you can't stop yourself reading each ad as it changes whenever you click for a new content page.