Team Xbox - Review
- Review by staff: "This Xbox only title is an arcade style slash 'em up dungeon game at its best, although I am not sure how great that particularly is." [Score: 2.5 out of 5]
- http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox/453/Blackstone-Magic-and-Steel/p1

Game Zone Online - Review
- Review by Michael Lafferty: "An arcade RPG clone of Gauntlet Dark Legacy." [Score: 7.2 out of 10]
- http://xbox.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r21068.htm

Game Chronicles - Review
- Review by Mark Smith: "It's not a bad game, but it could have been so much more..." [Score: 6.6 out of 10]
- http://www.gamechronicles.com/reviews/xbox/blackstone/msteel.htm

GameSpot - Review
- Review by Matthew Gallant: "Like a botched cloning experiment from a B movie, with developer Xpec Entertainment playing the mad scientist's role and Gauntlet playing the test subject." [Score: 2.1 out of 10]
- http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/blackstonemagicsteel/review.html

IGN - Review
- Review by Hilary Goldstein: "So that's what happens when you take the fun out of Gauntlet." [Score: 5.2 out of 10]
- http://xbox.ign.com/articles/391/391256p1.html