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 point-and-click adventure. The characters are modeled in 3D but the background graphics are pre-rendered. There are over 30 locations and over 30 characters to interact with. With its comic anachronisms and pirate theme, the game's humour is similar to that of Monkey Island.
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Developerneo Software
PublisherTHQ, SouthPeak Games, Magic Bytes LLC
ReleasedNovember 1, 1998
StatusReleased
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About This Game
Rodrigo is a hero by title and unemployed by circumstance. The island of Tol Andar has too many heroes for the available work — not enough princesses, not enough dragons, and the market for heroism has saturated. Into this professional drought arrives a genuine problem: pirates with plans for the city of Smashville, magical gloomstones, and ambitions involving flying ships. The dwarf Ramil provides the job that breaks the drought: find Jasmin, his wife, captured by the pirates and held in the city of Endavin. Not glamorous, but it is work.