A while ago I read a preview or two on “Seven Sorrows” - the next installment of Gauntlet which aims to reinvent the series. The biggest change, they said at the time, was that you and your friends could ease into the comfort of your couch’s personalized butt-groove and cooperatively work through the game on XBox live. I’ve been a fan of the Gauntlet series ever since I was a kid, so this news sprouted visions of drinking beer in the late night glow of my Wega as Beauchamp and Miner shouted frantic orders in my left ear. But in the last decade there hasn’t been a Gauntlet game that floored me, so I sorta let the game slip off the radar. That was 6 months ago or so.

But today I poked around the file shack media page and found the game’s latest trailer. It didn’t blow me away, but I gotta say it reminds me a helluva lot like a solid evolution of the Golden Axe franchise. Midway released the Double Dragon-esque brawler Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks already this year, and I think Gauntlet might be the second jab in their attempt to reinvigorate the arcadey slash genre. It’s not due out until December 14th, but it’s already on my Gamefly queue.

Gamespot has a Gauntlet gamespace, and of course the game has an official site.

~DDB