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Gauntlet Xbox 360
  • Publisher: Midway
  • Release Date: Nov 22, 2005
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Metascore
65 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

User Score
5.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5 Ratings

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  • Summary: [Xbox Live Arcade] The original role-playing arcade game lets four adventurers explore together as a warrior, valkyrie, wizard, and elf. Traverse the darkest of mazes, destroying vile beasts and claiming gold. Consume food to regain your strength, collect keys to journey deeper, and seek out potions to defeat your most powerful foes. Xbox Live multiplayer game mode. High-definition enhanced art (480p, 720p, and 1080i). Experience-based ranking system. Ability to post to scores to the Xbox Live leaderboards. [Xbox.com]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. Official Xbox Magazine
    85
    It starts to get a bit mind-numbing by around level 20 if you play solo, but when you bring some friends along for the adventure, your evening will quickly disappear in a puff of fun. [Jun 2006, p.61]
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  2. GamesRadar
    70
    Right from the start you're surrounded by creatures that suck away your life. The only way to get ahead is to learn a novel's worth of tricks and memorize the mazy layouts - something only the old-schoolers may have the patience for.
  3. Xbox Evolved
    49
    The game is priced right at 400 points (or $5) but then again, you can find "Midway Arcade Classic" titles in bargain bins for $10, and they include more.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. Alex
    8
    same original arcade goodness. its fun to play this and then look at more modern dungeon crawlers and see how far this genre has come. Gauntlet still reigns as the best and original, however. the only downfall this game has is the unlimited coin thing. you can infinitely hit the Y button and add on enough health to survive a nuclear fall out. its just not fun when you have 900000+ health.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. Deunnero
    6
    I used to love this game at the arcade when I was a kid, now not so much. It's great fun on LIve, but unless the others are die hard fans, it can be annoying to play with others.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. boomshanka
    4
    An OK game that could be a LOT better. Needs to be updated desperately. I don't know what the characters have done but they've annoyed a lot of baddies - not enough potions, treasure, health, rewards, good things - it seems all bad bad bad.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes