Rent-A-Hero
Rent-a-Hero is a graphic adventure game developed by the Austrian studio Neo Software (later Rockstar Vienna) and published by Magic Bytes in 1998, and by SouthPeak Games in 2000. Rent-a-Hero is a traditional…
Rent-A-Hero is a point-and-click developed by neo Software, released 1 November 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Rent-A-Hero is
Rent-A-Hero is a point-and-click game developed by neo Software and released in 1998. It was published by Magic Bytes LLC. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Rodrigo is a hero, but in this game it's not as cool as it sounds. He lives on the isle Tol Andar and there are many, many other heroes there. The problem is that there are not enough princesses to rescue or dragons to slay for all the heroes, so Rodrigo is currently unemployed. Another problem involves pirates who want to raid the city Smashville and create flying ships with magical gloomstones. Confronted with this situation, Rodrigo is very disillusioned. Just in time, the dwarf Ramil hires Rodrigo to find his wife Jasmin, who was captured by the pirates and is held in the city of Endavin.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Rent-A-Hero launched on 1 November 1998, within three weeks of Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and The House of the Dead 2.
Released around the same time: Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, The House of the Dead 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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