Deathtrap Dungeon (video game)

Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon is an action-adventure video game developed by Asylum Studios and published by Eidos Interactive for PlayStation and Microsoft Windows in 1998. 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.

This article is about the 1998 video game. For the adventure gamebook of the same name, see Deathtrap Dungeon.
Deathtrap Dungeon
Developer(s)Asylum Studios
Publisher(s)Eidos Interactive
Director(s)Paul Sheppard
Producer(s)Frank Hom
Designer(s)Richard Halliwell
Andrew Wensley
Programmer(s)Matt Curran
Artist(s)Matthew Bagshaw
Composer(s)Mike Ash
Steve Monk
SeriesFighting Fantasy
Platform(s)PlayStation, Windows
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: 19 March 1998
  • EU: April 1998
Microsoft Windows
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

The game is a third-person action-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.

Development

Ian Livingstone was heavily involved in determining the game's level design and art style.[2] The aesthetics and atmosphere are manifestly inspired by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose ruins drawings fascinated Ian Livingstone.

Though the game's 3D engine is very similar to that of Tomb Raider, another Eidos-published game with a development cycle which overlapped that of Deathtrap Dungeon, the two games were developed in isolation.[2]

Reception
Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
PCPS
GameSpot6.2/10[3]3.7/10[4]
IGN4.7/10[5]5/10[6]
Next GenerationN/A[7]
Aggregate score
GameRankings64%[8]54%[9]

Deathtrap Dungeon received "mixed or average", according to review aggregator GameRankings.[8][9]

Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "The flaws in the game continually distracted us from the fun parts. Overall, there are only three words for this game - bad, bad, bad."[7]

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gollark: We already have had those.
gollark: I read some rough prediction that humanity has a 1 in 6 risk of being entirely wiped out in the next 100 years.
gollark: Neither of which would be very good, of course.
gollark: Possibly? But wiping out *all humanity* is hard. Wiping out civilization is much easier though.

References
  1. "New Releases". GameSpot. 30 June 1998. Archived from the original on 9 June 2000. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  2. "NG Alphas: Deathtrap Dungeon". Next Generation. No. 28. Imagine Media. April 1997. pp. 94–95.
  3. Poole, Stephen (4 September 1998). "Deathtrap Dungeon Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  4. Fielder, Joe (28 April 2000). "Deathtrap Dungeon Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  5. Staff, IGN (13 August 1998). "Deathtrap Dungeon". IGN. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  6. Staff, IGN (3 April 1998). "Deathtrap Dungeon". IGN. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  7. "Finals". Next Generation. No. 42. Imagine Media. June 1998. p. 135.
  8. "Deathtrap Dungeon for PC". GameRankings. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  9. "Deathtrap Dungeon for PlayStation". GameRankings. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.


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