Get Medieval

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• Simplicity. Ahh! Some games are based on a simple premise. Some have a simple interface or a simple plot, while others are made for simple people. Get Medieval is all of these things. It's a top-down monster-blaster in which you wander around a dungeon maze trying to eliminate spiders and a bunch of unrecognisable mutant things with your sword as one of four different characters. A busty female squalks and squeals and admires her own curves. An Arnie soundalike mutters Arnieisms like: You're about to be terminated. Ho ho! Each has their own selection of powers: one has big muscles and an axe, another has big tits and a sword, and they wander around blasting stuff and collecting keys that allow them to progress deeper into the maze until - hurrah - they come to the end. Then they start on a new maze and wander around shooting things. And, once you've mastered the 40 Caction-packed' levels you can build your own, or have the Random Dungeon Generator build some for you. If you ever played (and liked) one of the Gauntlet series of arcade games, then you'll probably like this Ctribute'. Certainly, you can easily get into the swing of the action, and the four-player multiplay option is a bit of a laugh. The characters have an extensive line in humourous asides that may well tickle your fancy (or drive you up the wall), but at the end of the day it's a passable Gauntlet clone that's easy to dive in and out of in the same way as say Minesweeper or,er... Solitaire (ahem).