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EIEIO 08: Dungeon Hero inverts the dungeon genre

Comments (9) by JC Fletcher Mar 13th 2008 6:00AM

Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action


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As Firefly Studios explained it, most dungeon games put the player in the role of a psychopath who enters a dungeon to slaughter thousands of subterranean creatures and steal their gold. Dungeon Hero is totally different. In Dungeon Hero, your character is -- well, okay, a psychopath who enters a dungeon to slaughter thousands of subterranean creatures and steal their gold. But those subterranean creatures have their own stuff going on, and that jerk hero is neither the shining exemplar of humanity nor some brooding antihero. He's mostly just a big dumb guy who fights a lot. And as such, he is manipulated into becoming the hero of some of the dungeon's inhabitants.

Gallery: Dungeon Hero (PC, Xbox 360)


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Stronghold dev goes underground for Dungeon Hero

Comments (5) by Ross Miller Jun 7th 2007 12:15PM

Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure

Firefly Studios (Stronghold) have united with Gamecock to fight evil hordes of dungeon dwellers in Dungeon Hero for PC and Xbox 360. You might be tempted to think of other dungeon-themed games from the past -- Dungeon Explorer, Dungeon Siege, Dungeon Capers, Dungeon Runners, even Double Dungeon -- but did they have "goblin cheese merchants, jailed troll miners and helpful imps just looking for peace?" We didn't think so.

The press release for the game promises to be a fresh take on the dungeon crawler genre, offering HD graphics and an in-game world that is a "totally functional, living, breathing community in every way." No release date has been announced; trailer embedded after the break.

Gallery: Dungeon Hero (PC, Xbox 360)

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Charming hand-drawn Dungeon map predates Zork

Comments (6) by Christopher Grant Apr 13th 2007 3:18PM

Filed under: PC, Retro, Adventure


Everyone should know that we're big fans of Zork here at Joystiq HQ (it's one of the 10 most important games, remember?). So it's doubly exciting to see this map pop up all over the place today. At first blush, it may appear to be a charming, hand-drawn map of Infocom's seminal text-adventure game, but upon closer inspection it doesn't match up. Why? Because it's a map of the mainframe version of Dungeon, the antecedent to Zork, "equivalent to Zork I + about half of Zork II + the endgame of Zork III." Better still, there's DOS, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux versions to go along with the map, so there's no excuse not to play it!

[Via Cathode Tan]

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