Rygar: The Legendary Adventure (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure

This is a 3D-based sequel to Rygar, a Tecmo title which was successful in the arcades and on many home systems. In the land of Argos, Princess Harmonia is kidnapped by the Titans, who are led by ancient gods…

80 24 November 2002

What Rygar: The Legendary Adventure is

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure is an adventure game developed by Team Tachyon and released in 2002. It was published by Tecmo. It is available on Wii and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure is a 2002 action-adventure video game developed and published by Tecmo for the PlayStation 2. It is loosely based on Tecmo's 1986 arcade game Rygar and its 1987 NES port. It was released in North America in November 2002, in Japan in December 2002 and in Australasia and Europe in May 2003, published by Wanadoo Edition. In 2009, it was remastered for the Wii by Team Tachyon as Rygar: The Battle of Argus, it was published by Tecmo in Japan in December 2008 and in North America in February 2009. It was released in Australasia and Europe in April and July 2009, respectively, published by Rising Star Games.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure launched on 24 November 2002, within three weeks of Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.

Cheats and codes

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