Review by: the Dark Falcon

Personally, I've had enough Hercules stuff for one decade. The Kevin Sorbo series, the over-sugared Disney film, the merchandise...agh. It's enough to give me an Olympian headache. Still, I found time to sit down and take some time to play out Herc's Adventures, since it's one of the few offerings that LucasArts worked on bringing over to Saturn owners. (After all, we're not getting the Star Wars fighting game, so we need to take what we can get). The result is somewhat mixed- not exactly a 32-bit tour-de-force, but not exactly a failure either.

For the most part, this game could've fit onto a 16-bit cartridge. It's an overhead adventure game with detailed animation and no heavy special effects. Still, its arrival on 32-bit is welcome, simply because even the most influential gamer needs a break from the ongoing polygon contests. The look of Herc's Adventure is old time, but still a fresh and enjoyable vision.

The goal of this game actually involves several tasks with your lead character...Herc, of course (who exactly did you expect to lead Herc's Adventures- Jo Anne Worley?). Herc is a likable fellow, although most of the beasts in the game take to him like a football fan takes to beef jerky...CRUNCH!

The control is somewhat similar to Zombies Ate My Neighbors, a 16-bit Lucasarts game that involved numerous weapons, tons of monsters, and some of the goofiest 2-player action I have ever experienced. Herc controls fine and uses several weapons and items at his disposal to help him move along with his task.

The sound, for the most part, is average, not exactly mindblowing in a sense but not elevator MUSAK either. So much for that category...I've summed it up pretty quickly.

What I liked about Herc's Adventures is the swell sense of humor. To give away some of the good jokes in this review would be a shame, so I'll let you check this out for yourself (trust me, rent it and have a ball with it- I did). I score it a healthy 7 out of 10 and recommend it to everyone, although some of you may think it's too fruity in the age of Fighters Megamix and Virtua Cop. But, hey, even avid TV watchers need a classic sitcom now and then (which is exactly why I think Time/Life is doing all those Classic Episode things- do I really need every episode of Sanford and Son?).