Gauntlet (Xbox 360)

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Description

Gauntlet is an action game where players choose characters and fight their way through hordes of enemies that assault them on the way to the end of the level. One or two players must make their way through 100 levels of mayhem and magic.

The game features a choice of four characters to play with, each with different weapons. Thor the Warrior has a bludgeoning battle axe, Thyra the Valkyrie has a close range sword, Questor the Elf has his long range bow, and Merlin the Wizard has magical bolts.

Ghosts, goblins and even the life-draining Death are among the enemies. Enemies stream out of generators, so destroy these before tackling the rest.

Keys are needed to open the many doors within the levels, and in some situations a door will contain only bonus items, not a progressive route. Scattered magic potions act like smart bombs and clear the screen of all enemies. Beware of poison though, this reduces the character's energy level. Treasure is abundant throughout the levels and adds to the player's score.

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Alternate Titles

• "圣铠传说" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Hunger / Thirst
• Gauntlet series

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The Press Says

TalkXbox	Feb 12, 2006	75 out of 100	75
Gaming Target	Jan 26, 2006	7.1 out of 10	71
4Players.de	Jan 26, 2006	70 out of 100	70
Games Radar	Apr 01, 2006	7 out of 10	70
GameSpot	Nov 23, 2005	6.7 out of 10	67
Video Game Talk	Feb 19, 2006		60
Game Chronicles	Mar 04, 2006	6 out of 10	60
Lawrence	Aug 15, 2006	5.9 out of 10	59
XBox Evolved	Nov 17, 2005	4.9 out of 10	49
Wham! gaming	Jan 25, 2006	3 out of 10	30

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Arcade version of Gauntlet appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

DOS version

The DOS version uses a tweaked 256x200 pixel graphics mode and some other graphics trickery in EGA. Many VGA (and later) cards do not support this properly causing the game to hang after the character selection screen. DOSBox (starting at version 0.73) includes proper EGA emulation that allow this game to run when configured with the "machine=ega" option.

PCjr

There is an interesting note in the documentation for PCjr users:

Note to Pcjr users: If you wish to run the program in 16-color mode, the line DEVICE=PCJRMEM.COM present in the config.sys file on your boot disk must be changed to read DEVICE=PCJRMEM.COM /C instead.

This gives a clue as to how to get other Tandy 1000 graphic-mode games running on a PCjr (ironic, since the Tandy is a clone of the PCjr).

Awards

• Game Informer
  • August 2001(Issue #100) - #64 in the "Top 100 Games of All Time" poll

Information also contributed by PCGamer77 and Steven Don

Related Web Sites

• X360A achievement guide (X360A's achievement guide for Gauntlet.)