Customer Reviews

Gauntlet Dark Legacy

5 star:		(20)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Alright well i just bought this game today and let me tell you people, this game is sweet. I had a couple friends over and we played for 5 straight hours, the multiplayer madness is the first of its kind!! The spells, characters, levels, bosses, surprises, monsters.... they all change so much that this game will never get boring. And after playing for that long we only got through the FIRST world. The craziness of spells flying in every direction is enough eye candy to keep you busy for quite a while. And while many games hqave similar qualities, Gauntlet also includes leveling (up to 99), buy items, buy health, mini bosses, team combos, and so many hidden keys and chests that the replay value for this game is never ending!! Go out and buy this game, you wil be glad you did. Peace out.

I loved the original arcade version of Gauntlet as a kid. I spent so much money on it. I couldn't wait until Gauntlet: Dark Legacy was released for the XBox. Graphics are nice. The gameplay is good with nice changing camera angles dependent on where you are on the screen. I believe they even have the same guy doing the voice-over from the arcade version.

What is really cool about this game is the multiplayer mode. Nothing like having a few friends over for some four-player Gauntlet fun. I just wish the game utilized the 5.1 Dolby Digital capability of the XBox but I understand that it is really not needed for this game.

In addition, there are so many characters to choose from now, not just the Warrior, Wizard, Valkrie, and Archer from the original. I believe that there are 24 or so characters that can be unlocked for this game. Talk about replay value!

Well when me and my friends rented the game all i did was complain. "This looks boring" "lets rent a star wars game" but everyone told me it was cool. so we took it to my xbox and we just couldn't get off it! It is a 1-4 player team co-op game. I never new what a gauntlet was all i knew was that its just some arcade game. But know i am like a number one fan! Its so cool collecting gold to power up your character (that you chose at the begaining from 8 different ones) you also fight vicious bosses, zombies and other creatures. This is an interesting game because you are on your friends team to find all the sharms but at the same time there is alot of compitition againist your friends of who gets the treasure and whos this strongest whos the fastest and whos the on the highest level, whos weapon is the strongest and so forth. This is the absolute best sleepover game to stay up late and play. whats also cool is that u can't fall off cliffs your player will just stop! (AWESOME) I am so tirered of stupid games where i keep dying from cliffs.I think its fun for all ages and it is not super complitacated, the fighting part any way, So even my lil bro can come in and kill some zombies! This game is great! The only bad things are if u change your character in a game the new person is at level 1. And the plot is kind of odd but still an awesome game i got to go play it now seeya!

I love Gauntlet, but I have some minor gripes. First, the graphics aren't that much better than the N64 version. I expected alittle more from the powerful and mighty XBOX. Second, some of the levels are taken from the N64 game. Keys, barrels, and runestones are in the same spot!!! ( Note: Of course there are far more levels and characters than N64, but re-hashing old levels. Pleeessse. Bottom line: If you're new to gautlet, give it a try. It's simple, fun and a good multiplayer.
If you're a Gauntlet veteran, enjoy the game- just don't expect to be blown away.
Would I buy it again? Yes.

GAUNTLET DARK LEGACY rocks the XBOX! 1 to 4 player cooperative action, spectacular magic effects, terrifying boss battles and 50 playable characters! Go alone or with up to 3 of your friends, embark on a quest to collect the mythic 13 rune stones and battle the evil wizard, Garm! 30 Awsome powerups, wield the electric amulet, super shot, acid breath, fire shield, thunder hammer, x-ray glasses and much more! 60 Dangerous levels! Hack and slash your way through the Forsaken Province, Warrior King's Moutain Realm, Dwarves' Ice Caves and many more! 50 Classic GAUNTLET characters! Play as the Dwarf, Jester, Sorceress, Archer or Valkyrie. Can you find all 42 hidden characters?!. Gauranteed hours of endless violence, one of the most re-played games I own! If you like action/stage games at all, then you must play GAUNTLET DARK LEGACY!

I loved this game on Gamecube but lost it so when I wanted to play it with my boyfriend I decided to go with the Xbox version since I had just bought him a 360. This is one of those games that DOES NOT work on the 360! We tried updates and lots of different things and couldn't get it to work. This game is great to play with lots of friends, not to deep in plot or game play but its not meant to be! Its the BEST four player hack and slash there is! This is a game where anyone (the non-experienced and the experienced alike) can just have fun! Just be careful which version you get!

THIS GAME IS AMAZING IF YOU ENJOY COUNTLESS POTIONS, POWERUPS, HIDDEN LEVELS AND CHARACTERS. THE GRAPHICS ARE GOOD FOR THIS TYPE OF GAME, BUT WHAT SETS IT APART IS THE REPLAY VALUE. I JUST RECEIVED IT LAST WEEK AND I CANNOT STOP PLAYING!!! THIS GAME IS RIDICULOUS!!! YOU CAN PLAY THE ENTIRE GAME AS A POWERFUL MINATAUR FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!THERE ARE SO MANY HIDDEN ITEMS AND LEVELS, NOT TO MENTION CHARACTERS. YOU CAN ADVANCE YOUR HERO'S POWER UP TO 99 LEVELS AS YOU PROGRESS, AND AS YOU DO THIS YOU RECEIVE A FAMILIAR THAT ADDS MORE POWER TO YOUR ATTACK. THERE ARE 60 OR SO LEVELS, BUT EACH ONE IS EXPANSIVE. ALSO, THE GAME CHANGES ACCORDING TO WHO YOU DECIDE TO PLAY WITH. I HAVEN'T EVEN MENTIONED THE ABILITY TO PLAY WITH 3 OTHER PEOPLE SIMULTANEOUSLY!!! YOU CANNOT GROW BORED WITH THIS GAME, IT'S MAD ADDICTIVE!!!!!!!

I loved playing this game. However, it DOES NOT PLAY ON XBOX 360, even with updates and modifications to be backward compatible. So.... didn't get to play it again. :-(

Alright, first off I have to admit that I played "Seven Sorrows" before I played this game. I went to go and review "Seven Sorrows" and saw tons of reviews recommending this one, so I figured I'd better try it out first. I am really glad I did. My first impression while playing through this game was that I really wouldn't like it. From a developmental perspective this game is rather clunky, but I must admit that I eventually got kind of used to this, however the clunky play assures it will not receive five stars.

Basically the game design is ultra basic; I think they were trying to capture the old arcade nostalgia when creating this game, which if you like that stuff you'll love this game. Anyone remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game? Yeah it's sort of like that on some levels. Like other role playing games it has that rather standard overhead view, not a complaint because I prefer that. However the camera cannot be turned! This is singly one of the worst features of the game. If my friends and I could turn the camera on some level like you can in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance this game probably would've been ten times better! I think this is the single largest mistake they made during this games development, regardless of everything else that happens in this screen; that one feature really adds a lot!

Like I said before this game is pretty basic and at times clunky, this is made pretty clear that when you're walking next to your friends' characters they trip over each other and walk slower. Yes, I realize that that's probably kind of a realistic concept, but if you're going to go to that length give me a rotating camera! It's a very bizarre thing to include in the game, in my opinion, but it acts a bit more as a hindrance and it loses a major seamless quality on some levels. The extremely basic nature of the game comes in with the mode of fighting hordes of monsters. Every character has long range attack with infinite "ammo", even your melee characters. They can all sit back and fire away at enemies from a distance making it so you don't really have to get hit. This is really just silly, but when you're playing this game you're not exactly supposed to take it seriously, so it really makes sense, this isn't exactly Diablo or anything here. The things the characters say in the game when certain things happen are quite funny and amusing as well, making me think the target demographic is a little younger. This would also explain the extreme simplicity in the game design... and the whole having your melee characters have long ranged attacks.

I'm not even going to pretend like this story line is original, it's not. This really is geared towards multiplayer, but your friends and you have to save the realms from a great evil that is plaguing the lands. I said it wasn't original. So you go into all these different realms and fight hordes of monsters and in order to progress to the next realm you need to collect special crystals, items, and rune stones. The rune stones are needed to get to the final sequence, so I thought that was actually pretty fun. Though hunting down the rune stones gets a little tedious because they're not always easy to find. Either way I thought that was a pretty inventive idea, rather than just finding a single key in a level, you need to collect a bunch of crystals, some of which number two hundred. Like all role playing games Gauntlet allows you to level up your character by getting experience points. Here's one area that was smart, despite the fact you have long range attacks if you actually hit the creatures at close range using regular melee you get more experience. Also experience isn't based solely on kills, it's based on hits. So when you're fighting the boss battle at the end of the levels the person with the most hits often times gains more experience than the one who actually kills the boss. I thought this was pretty inventive and a very good idea! With the money you get you can buy all sorts of interesting items and you can even buy 10 point things that add to your strength, magic, speed, or toughness. So you can make your characters a lot stronger faster, though you'll max out at 999, and for leveling up you'll max at 99.

Basically once you get over the incredibly basic nature of the game and get over the frustration of it not working like other games, the game does get to be rather decent. There are a ton of levels to go through and all the levels have this interesting maze like quality so you have to figure out where to go to get to the end, but it's not too hard and for the most part it's pretty straightforward. I liked this aspect, but that's the general point of me enjoying a bit of a dungeon crawl, which just about all the levels fall into that category. The graphics are nothing to get excited about, because it's pretty obvious the Xbox can handle a lot better, but they weren't so bad that it was unplayable. Overall towards the end I had fun playing this and I felt like I got my moneys worth thanks to the sheer length of the game. However, I can definitely see how some players will quickly get bored with this title. It is very uniform and just about all levels have the same exact goal. Again, I'm pretty sure this isn't marketed towards adults, so once you get into that mindset it's not that bad of a game. I wouldn't say this is the best game ever by any means, but it's pretty good basic fun, just remember this isn't a Forgotten Realms title, so don't expect that kind of in depth quality.

This is a fun game, let me start with that. There are over 60 levels and a huge array of characters to choose from and plenty of different enemies to fight. It is worth going through once.
This game has many serious flaws, however.

1. The camera angles. There are many times you can't even see the enemies that are shooting you because they are off camera, this is especially frustrating when you are moving down screen.

2. The game doesn't use a fraction of the Xbox's graphical, processing or sound capabilities. It seems to be nothing more than a re-port of the N64 version with some extra levels added. Any 128 bit system, including Dreamcast, is capable of much more than this.

3. Unless you are detective Columbo and manage to sniff out all secret items, like runestones and gold medallions, on your first run through then you end up repeating levels, which isn't much fun.

4. The game isn't very challenging. I didn't lose a single hit point against the final boss because my character had so much gold I just bought invulnerability for 5 minutes and he couldn't touch me. Besides that, your characters just become too powerful too quickly. I never even came close to dying, not even once.

Like I said before though, it is a fun game, it just could have been so much more. I would like to see the ambition of software developers match that of hardware developers.