The classic Gauntlet 4-player co-op action gameplay returns in a completely new experience! Play as one of four distinct heroes in an intense monster filled dungeon brawler with a combination of both uniquely built and randomly generated levels to explore. Battle the endless hordes of foes as you an...
The classic Gauntlet 4-player co-op action gameplay returns in a completely new experience! Play as one of four distinct heroes in an intense monster filled dungeon brawler with a combination of both uniquely built and randomly generated levels to explore. Battle the endless hordes of foes as you and your friends fight for treasure and glory via both local and online co-op multiplayer. Invade the Darkness!
New Gauntlet Experience
Classic dungeon crawling action is melded with innovative new features for the ultimate Gauntlet challenge.
Online and Couch Co-op Multiplayer
Explore on your own if you dare or play with friends in 4-player same-screen and online co-op. Your friends can become foes as you compete to see who can claim the most kills and the most gold.
Four Classic Characters
Gauntlet’s four classic characters: Warrior, Valkyrie, Elf, and Wizard return but with more distinctive play styles and their own unique skills.
Discover New Powers
Players can scour the dungeons for gold and loot to unlock mystical Relics that grant the holder deadly new abilities. But beware – if used incorrectly they can be detrimental to your party’s health!
How Will You Die?
Fiendish traps, monstrous hordes, epic bosses and even your own friends will cause you to die in confounding and extraordinary ways.
Accolades:
An idealized reboot of the series – immediately familiar yet totally fresh. – Digital Trends
You haven’t needed food this badly since the 1980’s – Gamespot
Just the way fans would want it - Destructoid
Fans of the classic 80s game have nothing to worry about. - PrimaGames
This classic quarter-muncher consumed a lot of my own money during summers as a kid, so it's nice to see the fantasy gameplay live on this latest incarnation. - Fortune
With its simple, streamlined controls and the compatibility with SteamOS, 'Gauntlet' is clearly nostalgic for the living room-centric gaming of the early 90s. And it succeeds. - Tom's Guide
Audio stutters, game stutters, everything stutters. Game is unplayable from the start. Changing the options does nothing. Broken game if I ever seen one. Sad because it looks like tons of fun.
I got this game a couple of days ago (atm of this review) I gift a copy to a friend of mine. The game it's really good, it has multiple game modes that expands replayability also the unlocks are a nice element to keep creating diferent combinations and builds to customize your character. When you create a public lobby in a few minutes someone will showup, so multiplayer is Live and active. A plus elements is that the Spanish voices are in NEUTRAL Spanish (not from Spain) so that is something to say Gracias.
(Just in case, I don't own the GoG version, but I have played the game through 'til the end)
This NES reboot may look interesting at first, it has a lot of potential and the character selection is quite varied, but the more you play, the more you realize it's THE SAME ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
The good:
The graphics and music are quite nice, it may be a little too dark on some areas (except for the dark dungeon, which is completely dark), but enjoyable with that British voice-acting that we all love in these kind of games.
The gameplay is interesting, like it was in the NES, move around, kill everything that pops up and use spells or moves to help you out. It has 3 modes: go from point A to point B, endurance rounds and boss fights. You can even play online co-op, which (for me at least) plays wonderfully, up to 4 players.
The controls are good, a little hard to comprehend at first, but soon enough you get the hang of it, and the character selection is quite varied.
The bad:
You don't earn EXP, but rather hunt for gold to buy stuff, and the game demands an excessive amount of grinding to get any kind of equipment, from different weapons to outfit to abilities. Sure, RPGs are like this, but by the end of the game, I barely had enough to buy some weapons and a couple of spells. The outfits, forget about it, way too expensive, not a chance in hell to get them in my first run.
The gameplay, though I said it's interesting, ends up being repetitive and monotonous in a long run, to the point of becoming a chore to play. It throws a couple of puzzle solving to keeps you busy, but you ain't going to see anything innovating. The game is rather short in normal mode, about 4 hours. You can replay the game in harder difficulties, but what ruined the entire game for us was the final boss. It's unfair, unnecessarily long and it was an obvious plot-twist that you would see coming half way through.
Bottom line, I can't recommend this game, not even for nostalgia.
I loved the original but not getting this version since it has DRM MP and does not support the same MP mechanics that the arcade version did.
A real shame.
This is Gauntlet in a modern (at the time of release) engine and Internet multiplayer. The game itself isn't bad, but the single player experience becomes rather repetitive after playing for awhile. Controls are responsive but are a bit wonky compared to old school Gauntlet's simple controls. Many levels are only challenging because of the amount of enemies, not because of well-constructed puzzles or designs.
This game does have a fun multiplayer experience, and the experience is significantly more enjoyable if you bring a group a friends along for the experience. As a solo experience, the $20 price tag at the time of writing is a bit too steep. It's an average game in a market full of average games.