Gauntlet Dark Legacy (2000) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Gauntlet Dark Legacy

Gauntlet Dark Legacy is the follow-up to Gauntlet Legends and another installment in the long-running Gauntlet series of hack-and-slash action games. As with all the Gauntlet games, you play a medieval fantasy…

66 31 December 2000

What Gauntlet Dark Legacy is

Gauntlet Dark Legacy is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Midway Games West and released in 2000. It was published by Midway Games. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Arcade.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Gauntlet Dark Legacy is the follow-up to Gauntlet Legends and another installment in the long-running Gauntlet series of hack-and-slash action games. As with all the Gauntlet games, you play a medieval fantasy character who, along with allies if you have them, fights his or her way through hordes of evil creatures on the never ending quest for more gold and perhaps even an eventual goal. This version contains the characters and levels from Gauntlet Legends, plus the new characters and levels from the Dark Legacy arcade game, with a few extra levels thrown in. There are eight characters to initially choose from: the mighty Warrior, the deadly Valkyrie, the quick-footed Archer, the powerful…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Gauntlet Dark Legacy holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 18 hrs.

What it launched against

Gauntlet Dark Legacy launched on 31 December 2000, within three weeks of Pokémon Crystal Version, Phantasy Star Online, Pokémon Stadium 2 and Quake III: Team Arena. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Pokémon Crystal Version, Phantasy Star Online, Pokémon Stadium 2, Quake III: Team Arena.

Cheats and codes

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