The story of how
Sony got into
gaming is quite a
story, not one we
will repeat all of
here but they had
the door held
open for them by
Nintendo who promptly pulled the rug out from under
them at the last second. Sony got up and promptly took
over the gaming world with the Playstation.
God of War on the NES only gives you three hits before it
is game over and trust me, this is one tough cookie to
beat. Story elements are presented by entering rooms and
a person on a high pedestal gives advice or commentary
about your objectives coming up. Did I mention this hack
is amazingly hard?
Enemies come out of nowhere and they move like a bat
out of hell across the screen giving you very little time to
react. This makes the game extremely challenging but for
the wrong reasons. Cheapness abound here, be warned.
For some gamers this is a welcome challenge but for
many, it is just a headache better avoided if possible.
Thanks to game hacker, pacnsacdave, the classic
Nintendo Entertainment game, Rygar by Tecmo is now
God of War. Obviously this is not an official game from
Sony who have learned quite well from their experience
with Crash Bandicoot on the original Playstation and how
he got away from them into the wild. Sony would
probably get out of gaming before they let God of War
out of their family of games.
If you feel that
games today are too
easy, check out this
Rygar hack, it is a
definitely a flying
controller game if I
have ever played
one.
It is quite fitting to take Rygar and hack it to become a
God of War game, after all Tecmo showed with the
Playstation 2 release of Rygar: The Legendary Adventure
that the whole chain weapon thing was not created by
Sony’s favorite son, Kratos.
The limitations of
the system are
played up to and
everyone appears “similar” to the original source material
which is needed for these types of hacks to gain
popularity with gamers.
The range of the weapon here is not nearly as far as what
gamers are used to on the newer Sony hardware but this is
an all new adventure for fans to take on. All of the levels
are redone and don’t resemble the original Rygar game at
all, even enemies have been redone to reflect God of War.
These hacks are interesting because they take old games
and breathes new life into them with a more recent game
setting.
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