The legendary arcade classic Gauntlet is reborn with a new vision, story and gameplay in Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows. Seeking to undo the past, a powerful emperor is lost in his own dreams and nightmares. After being imprisoned by him for two centuries, four immortal heroes set out to undo their tormentor's lifetime of regrets. In the process, they must deal with the consequences of their own actions and watch as the world shakes apart around them. Seven Sorrows is the fusion of fantasy fighting action with the strategy and fascination of user friendly RPG elements, challenging gamers in solo play, co-op and a thriving online community. Junction Skills. Featuring avant-garde Junction Skills, players can band together to use their skills and abilities to unleash a number of devastating attacks upon their unsuspecting enemies. Amazing Graphics. A cutting edge rendering process brings the gorgeous character models, breath taking environments and animations to life
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Addictive Co-op Play. The franchise that started the cooperative play craze is revitalized, and back with two through four player co-op play.
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Deep, Robust Combat Style. The intuitive hack-and-slash fighting system is reinvented to be more dynamic and more destructive offering deeper choices for advanced players.
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User-Friendly RPG Elements. Gamers have the ability to strategically level-up heroes with weapons, equipment and magic through the use of Weapon, Class and Iconic Skills.
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Compelling Online Community. Taking cooperative gameplay to the online arena, featuring a system of trade and barter, a sense of camaraderie and community will come to life for the Gauntlet universe.
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Epic and Majestic Story - Set within a word of turmoil, players have the ability to select from six tragic heroes, each with their own fantastic back-story, to embark on the journey of fulfilling their destiny in this dark, powerful saga.
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33 of 39 found the following review helpful:
Far too easy to beatDec 24, 2005
By Lady Atana
"lady_atana"
After hours and hours of fun play with Dark Legacy, my family and I eagerly awaited the release of the next Gauntlet. We were sorely disappointed. With a 4 player team made up of 2 adults, an 11-year-old, and a 7-year-old, we beat the game in 4 hours.
Overall play was fun, but the game was far too short. With a 4 player team made up of 2 adults, an 11-year-old, and a 7-year-old, we beat the game in 4 hours.
The minions and the bosses were far too easy to beat (this is coming from a mom who isn't a complete video game nut).
We are very upset that we paid the full price for this game.
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
I waited for this?Feb 19, 2006
By W. Zimmerle
"Zimm Zamm"
Best advice: Rent it first.
First of all, there are few games I wait for. Gran Turismo 4 was worth it, Seven Sorrows is not. In Dark Leagacy you could buy up your abilities, purchase food, magic, and special items. In Seven Sorrows this is gone. You are given the opportunity to add to your damage (to enemies), your "magic" regenertion, or your health (reduction of impact) up to 20 points each.
You get only the original four characters, without the familiars of Dark Legacy. Distance weapons are a seperate button, and necessary only once in the game. You can purchase special attacks with the gold you find, but only one or two are essential and then only when attacked en masse, which is not often enough.
Now for why it got 2 stars. The graphics are great. But in getting good graphics, game play and experience is lacking. There is no real necessity to work together except to travel the game.
Over all, the game should take two experienced players about 4 hours to finish on normal level. Dark Legacy took about 18 hours to finish at the same level of difficulty.
This game was delayed in it's release and in my opinion, I am very very very glad I rented it first.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
This is not a real Gauntlet gameFeb 12, 2006
By C. Thompson I bought this game hoping that it would be something like Gauntlet Dark Legacy, my favorite PS2 game. I was very disappointed.
Pros: Better graphics and more special attacks.
Cons: Where to start? The game isn't even fun. It isn't related to Gauntlet except in name and some background music. A small fraction of the rooms, no real information on the characters, just redundant fighting (kind of like the original Bards Tale). The special attacks aren't even useful because you get attacked by large groups in every direction. The graphics don't even stand out but instead all blend in with each other. What was Midway thinking when they designed this game?
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Not too badDec 26, 2005
By Brian Martin gauntlet is what it is, hack n' slash, hack n' slash some more. The characters are pretty cool and the combos and moves are pretty nice to pull off. The graphics are improved over dark legacy and the characters look less "cartoony". I enjoyed the game, yes it is a bit repetitive, but sometimes you just want to jump into a game by yourself or with a friend, and just have some mindless button mashing fun.
If you go in knowing what to expect, you'll like it. If you're expecting a huge RPG with endless depth, yeah youll probably be dissapointed. The game is short, and there isn't much there besides the button mashing and hack n slash. The story is kind of thin but interesting enough to push it along. Baldaurs gate is really along the same lines as this, but gets bogged down in the downtime between towns. This is mudch more action oriented and fun in my opinion. I'd wait till the price goes down to about 30 or 40 though, like the others said it isn't worth a full 50 bucks for 10 hours of play.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
A Death Blow to an otherwise wonderful seriesDec 20, 2005
By 28 year old gamer Ah where to begin, so much was done wrong with this game.
1) The story line: It sucks! You are apparently an immortal hero who was betrayed by your king who attempted to steal your immortality. You are revived basically to fix everything that this king screwed up. No grand "Save the world from some horrible evil" plot line, just a fix the stupid kings mistakes by killing his advisors. Also, when you consider that these advisors are the ones who are responsible for your imprisionment you would think that this would be a good plot. Revenge is fun right, well this is one of the first times I've ever seen a revenge plot line screwed up.
2) Difficulty: The game is far to easy to beat. My brother and I rented it because the previews looked good in his gamer magnazines. It took us less then 5 hours to beat the entire game. About half way through our strategy changed from get any "cool" items (which don't exist in this game. No speed shoes, no multi-fire shot, no potions, no invisibility, no - well you get the idea.) to lets just end this level ASAP.
3) Boss Battles: The bosses are way to easy. The first one is a scare crow surrounded by flaming pots. Gee I wonder what you are susposed to do? I think I counted maybee two bosses that you actually had to fight. In all of the other boss battles you basically ran around, killed some of his minions, flipped some switches, and that killed the boss.
4) The generators. First they always look the same. The entire game through. The scenery may be completely different surrounding them, but they look almost, if not exactly the same. Second, the enemies do not come out of the generators, they teleport in around the stupid things. Even if they're's 6 generators 5 of which you have destroyed they still telleport in around the 5 destroyed generators until you destroy the sixth. If that was not annoying enough, even after you have destroyed all the generators enemies can still spawn in locations you can't get to but can see and walk towards you. The whole "I can't get to them, but they can get to me" thing gets really old and annoying quick.
5) Zoom Level - The zoom level for this game is similiar to that of Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms. Great for showing off artwork, sucks to play through though. Furthermore, it results in small levels - yet another problem the game has.
6) Camera Control - you have none. This wasn't an issue in the original Gauntlet Legends, or even Gauntlet Legends: Dark Legacy because they gave you a birds eye view of the battle field. In a game were you are zoomed in like this control of the camera would be very nice.
7) Buy Powerups - this element of the game is basically gone. Now you get to spend maybee one point - if you are lucky to improve your attack, health or mana regeneration. Sorry, but 1 point out of 20 possible translates into a 5% increase in any of these stats. That's not really enough to even bother with.
Additionally, what you buy now are different combo moves. This would be fine if any combo moves were that impressive. I played as the valkerie and the only good combo move she had was one that sucked enemies in damaged them and threw them out away from her. This move, however, also cost mana.
8) Combo's - While it is nice to rack up enough combo's to be called a demi-god or immortal, the fact that a combo basically seems to be defined by the game as hitting someone within so many seconds of hitting someonelse really brings a downer to the idea of a 40+ hit combo. Especially when you realize that the easiest way to get high combo's is just hit "x", your weak attack, a bunch of times.
9) Lets see anything else? I am sure I am missing something else I hated about the game, but I'll end this with stating what happens when you beat the game: The king states that he will forever haunt these lands to attone for his misdeeds and that it is your job now to guide the people of these lands.
In summary if you want a game that is easy to beat rent it, do not buy it. If you want a game that is fun. Get Gauntlet Legends: Dark Legacy. My sorceress is level 99 in that game. Or you can get Champions of Norrath. The only thing that might possibly help to redeam "7 sorrows" is online play. I never tried it, but then again if I wanted an online game I'd buy Final Fantasy: the chains of promethia or some other online only game.
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