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Wii News by Robert Purchese

16 February, 2009

Rising Star plans to release a Wii revamp of Tecmo action adventure game Rygar here in June.

Subtitled The Battle of Argus, this incarnation has new combat techniques and enemies, as well as a Gladiator mode with hordes of foes to hack and slash through.

Wii arm-waving has been added, with various gestures bossing obstacle navigation and others commanding the iconic Diskarmour Shield that batters opponents.

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure, the PS2 original, popped up back in 2002/3, and earned 8/10 from Eurogamer; our only concerns were a shonky camera and slightly wonky pacing.

The Wii conversion - Rygar: The Battle of Argus - was released across the US earlier this month and has a Metacritic average of 55 per cent - feels like a six year-old game, apparently.

Looks a bit like one, too - as our Rygar: The Battle of Argus gallery shows.

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DFawkes
16/02/09 @ 09:37
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I fancy this, but I got fed up of the wagglefest that is Soul Calibur Legends within minutes. It'd have been passable with a Cube controller, but was just more straining than a days solid wanking, just to take out the peons.

As long as this doesn't make the same mistakes, or has a Classic controller setting that mirrors the PS2 set up, I might have this.
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16/02/09 @ 09:56
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If this is the same game that GameTrailers have just reviewed in video format then I really wouldn't get too excited about it. They thought it was mediocre, it's little more than a lazy port of an old PS2 game that wasn't that good in the first place. It still has annoying camera angles and the graphics look sub-standard even for a Wii game.

Check out their video review on http://www.gametrailers.com
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16/02/09 @ 10:30
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Too true Darren,

Its a PS2 port - an incredibly lazy port at that.

sigmagoat
16/02/09 @ 11:35
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A port of a six year old PS2 game on the wii which runs 10 years out of date technology.... Only the game starved wand wagglers could get excited over this average shovel port....look its a wii game!!!! not aimed at the 8 year old girl demographic!!!!
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16/02/09 @ 13:20
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Yet when Nintendo port its Gamecube catalogue...
Sean.Aaron
16/02/09 @ 15:28
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who cares about this? What about the port of Rogue Trooper? That looks pretty cool and is out in a couple of weeks.
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16/02/09 @ 18:23
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Was looking forward to a grown-up version of this in high def...loved the PS2 Rygar. Now it's a sideways move, in the form of Rygar Waggle. Same as MH3...Fuck the Wii and what it's doing to games. :(
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@drumbaby: Your handle seems quite appropriate...

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