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==Reception==
==Reception==
The game was a bestseller in the UK.<ref>Gallup UK Playstation sales chart, June 1998, published in [[Official UK PlayStation Magazine]] issue 33</ref>
The game was a bestseller in the UK.<ref>Gallup UK Playstation sales chart, June 1998, published in [[Official UK PlayStation Magazine]] issue 33</ref>
[[IGN]] praised the variety of monsters and sound effects, but criticized "the glitchy, mediocre graphics, the unintuitive camera angles, the sluggish control, and the appallingly weak and abrupt ending".<ref>http://au.psx.ign.com/articles/152/152042p1.html</ref> [[Gamespot]] stated "''Deathtrap Dungeon'' turns out to be at the low end of games for the Sony PlayStation".<ref>[http://www.gamespot.com/deathtrap-dungeon/reviews/ Gamespot - Deathtrap Dungeon reviews]</ref>
[[IGN]] praised the variety of monsters and sound effects, but criticized "the glitchy, mediocre graphics, the unintuitive camera angles, the sluggish control, and the appallingly weak and abrupt ending".<ref>http://au.psx.ign.com/articles/152/152042p1.html</ref> [[GameSpot]] stated "''Deathtrap Dungeon'' turns out to be at the low end of games for the Sony PlayStation".<ref>[http://www.gamespot.com/deathtrap-dungeon/reviews/ Gamespot - Deathtrap Dungeon reviews]</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

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Deathtrap Dungeon
Cover image for the 1998 video game Deathtrap Dungeon.
Developer(s)Asylum Studios
Publisher(s)Eidos Interactive
Platform(s)PlayStation, Microsoft Windows
ReleasePlayStation
Microsoft Windows
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single player

Deathtrap Dungeon (or Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon) is an action-adventure game released in 1998 for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. It is based on the adventure gamebook of the same name (the sixth in the Fighting Fantasy series) written by Ian Livingstone, and published by Puffin Books in 1984.

Gameplay

The game is a third-person adventure, with the player taking the role of an adventurer (either the Amazon "Red Lotus" or the Barbarian "Chaindog"), who at the invitation of a wizard explores a series of dungeons and must overcome both monsters and traps to find riches.

Reception

The game was a bestseller in the UK.[1] IGN praised the variety of monsters and sound effects, but criticized "the glitchy, mediocre graphics, the unintuitive camera angles, the sluggish control, and the appallingly weak and abrupt ending".[2] GameSpot stated "Deathtrap Dungeon turns out to be at the low end of games for the Sony PlayStation".[3]

See also

References

Further reading

  • "Deathtrap Dungeon". EGM². June 1998.