Get Medieval


Get Medieval is an action game developed and published by Monolith Productions for Windows in 1998. It is an overhead shooter in which the player can control one of four characters in a dungeon. Get Medieval gameplay is similar to that of Atari's 1985 arcade game Gauntlet.

Gameplay

It can be played in three modes and on four difficulty levels. The game's four player characters: Archer, The Barbarian, The Sorceress, and The Avenger, differ only in speed and strength. The slowest character is the strongest, the fastest the weakest. Players can find Attack and Defense upgrades, losing them once their characters die. In the multiplayer mode, the game can be played via hotseat or network.
This game came with a world editor called "GMedit", which allows players to make custom levels. Users can do everything that Monolith Games did in their levels, but it does not give a full control on the level. Custom levels can only contain a maximum of five kinds of enemies and their spawners in a specific dungeon.

Plot

The female warrior Kellina's father was killed by a giant dragon that terrorizes the kingdom and dwells in a dungeon protected by its minions. Kellina and her friends embark on a quest to kill the dragon.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "if you want to see how the pre-Pentium crowd lived, Get Medieval offers a pleasurable peek at the arcade arenas of the past, complete with chuckles."
Get Medieval received generally positive reviews. IGN's Trent C. Ward complimented the game's presentation, but felt that the humor in the game was overdone, for a score of 6.1/10. Jason D'Aprile, of GamePro noted the game's similarity to Gauntlet, but praised the game's sound effects and overall look. GameSpot's Tahsin Shamma gave it a score of 7.1/10 and wrote, "this game may be Gauntlet, but Gauntlet is still a lot of fun." French website jeuxvideo.com scored it a 17/20 as "a great action/RPG in Gauntlet style," and GameRevolution rated it a B as "a nice update to a classic game understands its limits and accepts its fate with wry humor."