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 m...
Rated Efor Everyone
Developer:Digital Eclipse
Gauntlet (1985)
Released On:
Nov 22, 2005
Metascore
Mixed or Average
65
User score
Mixed or Average
6.3
My Score
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Game Stats for Gauntlet NES
Metascore
Mixed or Average
65
36% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
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]
80
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.
75
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.
67
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.
60
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.
50
It's repetitive. [Issue#5, p.120]
30
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.
User Reviews
User score
Mixed or Average
6.3
33% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
50% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
17% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
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