Disney's Hercules
Windows - 1997
| Alt names | Геркулес. Новые подвиги, דיסני הרקולס, Disney Jeu d'Action - Disney présente Hercule, Disney's Action Game Featuring Hercules, Disney's Hercules Action Spiel, Disneys action spel med Herkules, Hercules Action Game |
|---|---|
| Year | 1997 |
| Platform | Windows |
| Released in | Germany, United States (1997) Worldwide (2019) |
| Genre | Action |
| Theme | Arcade, Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Licensed Title, Movies, Platform, Walt Disney |
| Publisher | Disney Interactive, Disney Interactive Studios, Inc., Disney Interactive, Inc. |
| Developer | Eurocom Developments Ltd |
| Perspectives | 2D scrolling, Side view |
Description of Disney's Hercules
Disney's Hercules Action Game is a bright, colorful platforming hack-&-slash that is loads more fun than any licensed release ought to be. The same development team would go on to make Disney's Tarzan, which utilizes many of the same gameplay mechanics and features, though Hercules seems to implement them better.
Throughout the course of the game, you play as Hercules, re-enacting much-lengthened scenes from the original film with movie cutscenes interspersed between levels. The game's visuals are predominantly 2D sprite based with a bit of pre-rendered 3D and a few 3D models. Much of it is gorgeous animation-quality work, but it's meant for a very low native-resolution; full-screen on any modern monitor will show the game's age. Still, it's beautiful, high-frame-count stuff, and the “drawn” backgrounds are vastly superior looking to Tarzan's rendered environments.
What the game does best is make Hercules feel mighty. He's armed with his trusty sword, which is good for hacking and slashing and has a number of elemental powers it can acquire via certain power-ups, such as fire or lightning. Herc also has big punches, can to lift giant objects, leap great distances and even smash the ground beneath him. Combine all that with the ability to eat up a good bit of damage before he goes down, you have a Hercules that feels super when you play him. The smooth and responsive controls don't hurt, either.
The levels are big and long. Like the later Tarzan game, each stage is more of an endurance trial than a bag of cheap platforming tricks designed to keep you from winning. The 2.5 D portions of levels, though, are one of the game's weak points. Most of the time, you're moving on a single plane, but sometimes the game will mix it up a bit with two or more layers of planes. This isn't a big problem, but the hidden items and enemies obscured by background objects are a nuisance. More noticeable is that they slow the pace with fiddling up and down the transition paths between planes and interrupt the otherwise quick flow of the game.
Overall, I like Hercules a lot. I wish that it had a save system instead of passwords (and that it was easier to obtain the passwords; you have to find 4 secret items in each level to get its password); a save file would make Hercules more conducive to casually playing a few levels at a time. While that's not a huge strike against it, some might find it irritating.
Review By P. Alexander
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ARIF 2021-02-25 1 point
Played the shit out of this epic game with my brother when we're kids. They don't make game like this anymore
Mehdi 2019-03-25 1 point
this is work properly for me in wordows 10:
https://gamesnostalgia.com/en/download/disneys-hercules-/1692
aaaaa 2019-01-31 -1 point
TERRIBLE UPLOAD SINCE IT DOESN'T WORK ON MODERN MACHINES.
NO INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE IT WORK
pcwizard7 2018-02-06 2 points
you can use Doxbox, scummVM, or any DOS emu
PS1 Emu or Playstation that can play PS1 Games :)
It might not work for 2018-01-18 0 point
If you have problem launching the install then use virtualbox and win98.. Works like that NP
Golden Hearted 2017-11-15 0 point
This is my First Time on time site i hope
I'll enjoy ur site ....if ur game will donload
moeghanem 2017-05-31 -2 points
hey could u plz help me when i dwonload it it says its something had to do with 86 bit or 64 bit and it wont download plz help me i really wanna play this game so bad
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