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Gauntlet

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Game Info

Publisher: Midway

Developer: Digital Eclipse

Genre(s): Action

Players: 4

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: November 22, 2005

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]

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What The Critics Said

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Official Xbox Magazine

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]

Gaming Target

Dropping five bucks on this arcade classic, which now has online support, is a pretty safe bet.

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MS Xbox World

A long game in that there are plenty of dungeons to fight through and the fact [is] that it’s not easy if you don’t continually add credits.

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TeamXbox

If multiplayer coin-op games that can be played over Xbox Live sounds appealing, then Gauntlet is surely worth the few bucks it costs to download it. I’m warning you know though: Gauntlet isn’t really about skill - it’s more about having enough credits to finish the entire game.

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Talk Xbox

Whether you’re a young RPG lover who wants to see where it all began, or an elder who wants to relive their glory days, you need to immediately dish out five bones and give Gauntlet a whirl.

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Games Radar (in-house)

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.

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Extreme Gamer

Gauntlet is a blast with friends Xbox Live, just convince at least one friend to get this and you'll have a good laugh.

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GameSpot

Four-player online support makes the Xbox Live Arcade version of this fantasy arcade classic a worthwhile, inexpensive indulgence for nostalgic fans of the good old days of gaming.

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Game Chronicles

Hardcore Gauntlet players will probably buy yet another copy of this game if for no other reason than the ability to play multiplayer over Xbox Live, which is admittedly a good reason to play what is otherwise a very dated and boring game that will try your patience rather than test your RPG skills.

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IGN

Visually and aurally the game is pretty much the same as before. Of course, running the game on an HD set will make it sharper, but this game still looks and sounds much like it did in 1985.

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360 Gamer Magazine UK

Of all the Midway arcade games, this is probably the weakest. [Issue #16, p.77]

X360 Magazine UK

It's repetitive. [Issue#5, p.120]

Xbox Evolved

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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WHAM! Gaming

The worst part is, you can basically hit a button to get more and more health, as opposed to adding quarters in the arcades back in the day.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

boom shanka gave it a4:
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.

Deunnero gave it a6:
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.

Alex gave it an8:
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.

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