The whole concept of your life meter ticking away with the seconds no matter what you do just seemed really cheap to me. Luckily that idea is completely out the window in the DC version. Legends makes a much better home game than an arcade game. Graphically, it's excellent--super vibrant colors, no slowdown even with four players , huge levels and hard bosses.
Don't think that it's hack and slash all the way through, either, because you've got to build your character up by collecting gold to buy strength and through fighting experience. If you don't build up your character correctly, you could find yourself stuck on a boss character and have to redo previous levels in order to rack up health and experience. Unlike most arcade games these days, Legends has a huge amount of levels, each with its own challenges and enemies--some of which are the most annoying little bastards I've ever seen.
They've packed every conceivable environment into this game as they could. The only problem I have is that it's not always clear when you've missed anything in the levels.
Midway has captured the old-school gameplay of Gauntlet in 36 perfectly, and made the necessary changes and improvements to the game to make it a fantastic home game. If hack-'n'-slash dungeon action with a dash of action RPG gameplay is your thing, this is your game.
Go figure: I really didn't enjoy this game very much in arcades because of its slow, methodical pace, but it is exactly that characteristic that makes it a much better home video game. Gauntlet Legend's slowpaced action is a nice change-up to what I'm used to--it's something you can really relax and play.
The best thing about the game college kids pay attention now is that it's four-player capability lends itself perfectly to a few friends lounging around while downing a few beers--I could even think of a few decent drinking games while one guy drinks, the other three protect him. Those bad habits aside, it's worth your time to check this one out. 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? The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game. Home Emulators Platforms Games. It is a fantasy themed hack and slash styled dungeon crawl game, a sequel to 's popular Gauntlet and 's Gauntlet II and marks the final game in the series to be produced by Atari Games.
Its unusual features for an arcade game included passwords and characters that could be saved, enabling players to play over the course of a long period. Three of the four characters from the previous titles return.
The Elf has been replaced by the Archer. Each character has a Beast Within, that can be unlocked in the arcade by reaching a certain level, and in the console versions by collecting Coins in Treasure Rooms. Starting the trend for future installments, monsters come in three levels of strength and are spawned by monster generators.
Destroying these generators is a primary goal of the game, and essential for stopping the flood of monsters. Gauntlet: Legends has been ported to three different systems, each with their own variation of the original Arcade version, having slightly different graphics, stage layout and different stages altogether , and different available items.
The game's engine can be different between versions as well, as most dramatically seen between the PlayStation and the Dreamcast versions. This game introduced an inventory system that allowed players to stock and activate items after they were obtained, with a few exceptions Invulnerability and Anti-Death Halo.
This is also the first Gauntlet game to feature Sumner 's tower and his shop. The Mountain Kingdom is the only realm open at the start of the game. After defeating the guardians of the four realms, players will gain access to the Desecrated Temple where Skorne awaits.
Defeating Skorne will open the Battlefield. Once the player collects all 13 Runestones , the pathway to the Underworld will be revealed. A Red Warrior in the Valley of Fire. This version is often criticized for its extreme diversity from the original arcade version. Most of the levels have been down-sized, many objects features buggy physics, and lack of four-player cooperative gave the port relatively bad ratings.
The game retains the inventory system from the Nintendo 64 version, the two new realms, and extensive cheat codes.
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