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Mixed or average reviews- based on 28 Ratings

  • Summary: The world of Gothicus is in the suffocating grip of a queen bent on hellish destruction. In Dungeon Hunter: Alliance on PlayStation 3, your destiny and this tormented land depend on your ability to forge a fighting unit strong enough to withstand anything the forces of the netherworld can throw at it.

    Picture postcard charm gives the villages and settlements of Gothicus an air of unruffled tranquillity. Traders and craftsmen bustle between thatched houses, stopping to pass the time of day and hawk their goods. All is bright and, seemingly, idyllic.

    Spend a little longer here and the atmosphere takes on a more sinister edge. In the bowels beneath Gothicus, malevolent hordes roam in immense packs, waiting to engulf anyone foolish enough to venture there. Goblin kings, enslaved trolls and zombie marauders are just an acrid taste of the tidal wave of evil threatening to rip through this peaceful land.

    Armed with PlayStation Move motion controllers or wireless controllers, you and up to three friends are all that separate Gothicus and darkness.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. Jul 1, 2011
    83
    I like the dungeon crawling. I like the character customization. I like the loot. But most of all I like the multiplayer. With four players going at it, the battles become pandemonium and I love it. Dungeon Hunter: Alliance has everything I look for in a downloadable title.
  2. Jun 4, 2011
    73
    Dungeon Hunter: Alliance is good, old-fashioned dungeon-crawling, with simple, solid gameplay and an excellent longevity. It is not perfect, but we are sure this game will make all the fans of the genre happy.
  3. It's no Diablo, but this is decent nonetheless. [July 2011, p.95]
  4. May 11, 2011
    40
    While the online makes for a fun social outing, Dungeon Hunter: Alliance doesn't do enough to stand out in a crowd. With its uninspired gameplay, joke of a story, and its constant recycling of just about everything, it's barely worth the $13 price tag. There are better Diablo clones worth your buck, and this is simply not one of them.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Great and entertaining game. Sure one could argue, that this game is a plain copy of other hack and slay games. No doubt, it is. But a very fun one. Considering the amount of re-playability, the motivating leveling system and the possibility to enjoy the game with 4 friends, makes this one an offering I cant resist.

    What most reviews of the "popular" magazine didn't higlight enough is the very good implementation of the move controller. This works extremely well and is really a fun alternative to the dualshock 3, or let us say "gamepad" style of playing action rpgs on the console.

    It delivers the "pc" feeling perfectly, because it plays similar to the mouse controls on this plattform.
    So if you look at the more than solid structure of the game itself and add the move controls plus the multiplayer implementation, this is the most intuitive and original "diablo clone" especially when you compare it to other "diablo clones" in the downloadsector (torchlight for example).
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  2. 8
    Simple, fluid, fast, and not pretentious. Awesome for multiplying. The game allows players to drop-in (and create a new character on the spot) in literally 10 seconds. For the few abandoned left-overs of the ps3 community that, like me, still value gameplay more than graphics and simplicity over overwhelming menus and options. Expand
  3. You can't go back home again. The original Diablo was a time when you crawled to the level 3 dungeon and were genuinely scared when the 10-foot skeleton king with dozens of minions showed up. Then Diablo II added a load of skills and it has been downhill ever since. So much so that not even the promise of the 3rd installment excites me. Dungeon Hunter Alliance is a so-so game in a moribund genre. Picking through the slag pile of drops looking for something decent no longer has that "Eureka!" sense. Looking at the skill tree is depressing because you know it is a chore figure out which two or three skills are genuinely useful and which are filler built on novelty and desperate experimentation. The story is ok as far as it goes, but there is no "but what happens next?!" compulsion that is essential for any kind of story. Expand
  4. Quite possibly the longest loading times in a game ever! takes ages to load in each section and to top that the game itself is a very hum drum affair, unlike over games like Diablo and Dungeon siege there is very little innovation here. Granted its a downloadable game but that should make no difference... other DLG are bursting with originality as that's the best place for those types of game. This is blander then a egg white omlette with nothing added. Collapse

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