Although it's an excellent port of the arcade game, it's hard for me to get excited about Legends. Yes multiplayer is fun for a bit--with so many different power-ups and items there are lots of opportunities for teamwork or screwing over your friends, and building up your character's abilities RPG-style is cool.
But ultimately there just isn't enough technique or skill involved, so the game boils down to a pretty straightforward hack-and-slash action game.
That'd be fine if it was fast-paced and exciting, but alt the backtracking and getting lost trying to find switches grinds the game to a halt way too often. Rent it with friends if you liked it in the arcade.
Midway isn't wasting any time bringing Atari's latest quarter-muncher to the home arena. When the medieval role-playing action of Gauntlet Legends hits the Nintendo 64 and the PlayStation, you can expect everything you loved about the arcade hit plus more, more, more! There's hardly an element of the arcade version that won't be enhanced.
For starters, the game's original four characters will be joined by three new ones. Four players can battle their way through the N64 dungeons together, while two can team up to tackle the PlayStation. Not that catacombs are all you'll each are planned for plenty of long-term questing. Midways also adding more enemies and new bosses as well as a 3D map to help you out. Most intriguing is the Gauntlet Death-match where players duke it out with each other for both glory and gold.
But does this classic action-oriented franchise have a sharp enough blade to cut through the RPG-laden home market? Watch for a future Hands-On preview for more information. Midway, known for sweeping nostalgic gamers off their feet with remakes of classics like Rampage , is now focusing on the '80s coin-eater. You can still play as the warrior, wizard, archer, or valkyrie while you run around and hack a bunch of ghouls, scorpions, and other miscreants--but Legends is better looking than its mids inspiration thanks to enhanced 3D graphics.
The game also supports four players in deathmatch and cooperative modes. Although ported from the arcade, Gauntlet Legends for the Nintendo 64 will have some significant changes, including multiple paths, secret characters, and three new levels.
In the preview version we played, the graphics needed a little jump start, and there were draw-in and fogging nuances that needed to be corrected. The gameplay was fine, however, and fans of intense exploration tides such as Pitfall 3D or Mega Man will find there's much ado about Gaundet. Game Review Gauntlet is a top-down hack and slash dungeon crawl video game, developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Warner Bros.
Interactive Entertainment. Part of the Gauntlet series, it was released on 23 September The game was released for the SteamOS Linux operating system later in the year. The game provides opportunities: choose one of four heroes: warrior, magician, valkyrie or elf; explore dungeons and labyrinths with friends up to 4 people; search for gold, valuable trophies and relics, allowing you to unlock mystical artifacts that endow characters with new abilities and skills.
Each class has its own skills: the warrior Thor inflicts circular blows with high damage, the elf Kvetor acts as an archer and sets traps, the Valkyrie Tyra throws a boomerang and a shield, and the magician Marilyn uses a combination of 9 different types of spells.
The Gauntlet Slayer Edition has a role-playing system based on the so-called "trials". If a player kills, for example, mummies, then he receives less damage from them. If the character has eaten units of food, then it will start to restore health points by 6 percent more and regenerate 10 seconds faster.
Achievement and progress are assigned to each hero individually. Unlike the original game, you'll need to collect crystals to progress to the new levels, meaning you'll run through a predetermined cycle to the levels, although the game won't force you down a path. This version adds boss monsters and a lot more player triggered puzzles than the arcade version, too.
In many ways what you'd consider a 'Party Game' for the PS2, Gauntlet has neither the sophisticated gameplay nor the depth of story shared by many other PS2 titles. Because of this, Gauntlet must ride on its other strengths, like replayability and multiplayer features. Able to handle up to four people with a PS2 multitap, this game can be a good dose of friendly competition when you've gotten tired of playing another game.
Gauntlet , although fairly modern in terms of graphics, relies on very old gameplay. Essentially unchanged since the days of the original Gauntlet , your objective is to patrol each level of the dungeon, destroying monster after monster.
The game has a 3D isometric view that lets you tromp through each dungeon. The controls are simple, with a strong attack, weak attack, charge, and magic buttons, and a special button that lets you build up a charge to launch a powerful attack. Aside from monsters, you'll also need to avoid mantraps that will cut, burn, and otherwise dismember you. Your first step on that journey is to choose a hero.
There are eight different hero types to choose from, each with weaknesses and strengths. The Warrior, Wizard, Valkyrie, Knight, Jester, Sorceress, Archer, and Dwarf are the choices you've got, all of which can be taken in four different colors. As you progress through the game, you'll also unlock extra hidden characters and different versions of the normal characters.
You've got four statistics, Magic, Strength, Armor, and Speed, all of which increase as you increase in level and can be bought up with collected gold later. Gold and experience is collected as you kill monsters and open treasure chests, and these items allow you to increase in level as you're playing the game. Just like the original, special generators located around the level spawn monsters.
These generators will create an unlimited amount of monsters until the generator is destroyed, making the destruction of these generators a high priority.
After fighting through many, many, many monsters, you'll find the boss, a large monster that presents an extreme challenge. The Lich, Dragon, and Spider Queen are some of the bosses you'll face, and they're the direct servants of Skorne, protecting the shard pieces that lock Skorne's gate.
These monsters are very difficult to beat, but you can find special items throughout the game that are specially designed to defeat the boss. Finally, your hero is provided a set amount of health, usually starting around , which is depleted by battle.
You'll lose health at a continuous rate, usually one point every couple of seconds, requiring that you find health items occasionally or face the fact that you'll be using your continues often. The Health items consist of food, in the form of meat or fruit, both of which come in many varieties, and varying restorative properties. Just like the arcade version, you can play with three of your best friends, but only if you've got a PS2 multitap. Given the design of Gauntlet , it is practically better to play with at least one friend, as the game adjusts the camera angle and width dynamically, based on the number of players and where you are on the level.
Most definitely what you'd call a party title, Gauntlet is a good game for a number of players. The PS2 has an excellent graphics potential that has gone relatively untapped by this game. With a low resolution, and a lack of highly detailed textures, Gauntlet certainly isn't the nicest looking PS2 game ever made. The best thing I can say about it is that Gauntlet is a complete arcade reproduction.
From the design of the characters to the fog of exploding poison barrels, it perfectly simulates the large arcade style version of the game. Simplistic sound effects don't contribute to the overall quality of the game, even though they are at least unobtrusive enough not to get in the way.
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