The Warrior. The Wizard. The Valkyrie. The Elf. "I swear if you shoot that food again I will murder you." Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Arrowhead Games Studios have announced that the classic co-op brawler Gauntlet is headed to the PlayStation Network with Gauntlet: Slayer Edition, debuting August 11th. You can pre-order it at the PlayStation Store for $19.99. If you pre-order today you can receive in-game item codes for Mordok’s Screaming Hammer and Reaper’s Visage Helm for the Warrior.
Official description:
One of the first multiplayer arcade games, this new Gauntlet experience is a perfect couch co-op game, allowing players to select from four classic fantasy-based characters - Warrior, Wizard, Valkyrie or Elf – each with a distinctive play style, unique strengths and weaknesses. In this enhanced edition of the game, players will travel to an unexplored realm and encounter new hero weapons and abilities, new monster types, additional features that increase team dynamics and strategy, and new gameplay modes to be revealed this month.
Players eager enough to pre-order the newly updated Gauntlet: Slayer Edition today will receive
Gauntlet is rated M for Mature by the ESRB for Violence, Blood and Gore, with a setting to disable the game's gore.