![]() ![]() There is also a helmet which grants the player a few seconds of invulnerability when activated. Weapon powerups, known as Gifts of the Gods, can be found throughout the game, consisting of the Lightning Sword (shoots lightning any direction Hercules aims when selected and fired), Fireball Sword (shoots fireballs that seek out onscreen enemies when selected and fired), and the Sonic Sword (affects enemy targets at close range with a circular sonic blast when selected and fired). The player's main weapon is the sword Hercules can also punch, but this is a much more difficult way to defeat enemies. The player's health can be increased by picking up Hercules Action Figures and drinking Herculade cups found throughout the game. There are three rush levels in the game in which the player must run forward through the map and avoid obstacles without being able to stop or fight. The last two levels are playable only on Medium and Herculean difficulties. There are ten levels and three difficulty modes: Beginner, Medium, and Herculean. The game is mainly two-dimensional, although in many missions the player can walk to other planes via pathways or stairs. To do that, Hercules must pass several tasks and defeat many villains, and at the end, face Hades, ruler of the dead, who is also responsible for Hercules' losing of his immortality. Hercules, son of Zeus, is stripped of his godhood and must prove that he is a true hero in order to regain his immortality, and join Zeus and the other gods on Mount Olympus. The game follows the same storyline from the animated film. In 2010, the PlayStation version was made available on the PlayStation Store. Versions were released for the PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, and Game Boy on July 3, 1997, in North America and on November 14, 1997, in Europe. Please send us your comments.Hercules (also known as Hercules Action Game and as Disney's Action Game Featuring Hercules and Disney's Action Game Featuring Disney's Hercules in Europe) is a 1997 platform game based on the 1997 film of the same name. This exhibit is a subset of materials from the Perseus Project digital library and is copyrighted. To read more about these topics, see Further Resources. Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the University Museums, University of Mississippi Mississippi 1977.3.117, Attic red figure, white ground lekythos, ca. Diana let go of her anger and healed the deer's wound. He said that he had to obey the oracle and do the labors Eurystheus had given him. She was about to take the deer away from Hercules, and surely she would have punished him, but Hercules told her the truth. As Hercules hurried on his way, he was met by Diana and Apollo.ĭiana was very angry because Hercules tried to kill her sacred animal. ![]() He caught the deer, put her on his shoulders and turned back to Mycenae. Realizing that the deer was about to get away, Hercules shot her just as she was about to cross the stream. At last, when the deer had become weary with the chase, she looked for a place to rest on a mountain called Artemisius, and then made her way to the river Ladon. Hercules set out on this adventure, and he hunted the deer for a whole year. Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art Toledo 1958.69a+b, Attic black figure pointed amphora, ca. Hercules with the hind of Ceryneia and the goddess Athena He couldn't risk getting Diana angry at him he was already in enough trouble with Hera. That meant that Hercules could neither kill the deer nor hurt her. Not only that, the deer was sacred to the goddess of hunting and the moon, Diana she was Diana's special pet. This was a special deer, because it had golden horns and hoofs of bronze. ![]() You'd think it would have been easy for a hero like Hercules to go shoot a deer and bring it back to Eurystheus, but a few problems made things complicated. Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums Harvard 1960.390, Boeotian black figure kantharos, ca. Map of Southern Greece showing Ceryneia and Mycenae Now, before we go any further, we'll have to answer two questions: What is a hind? and, Where is Ceryneia?Ĭeryneia is a town in Greece, about fifty miles from Eurystheus' palace in Mycenae. Hercules' Third Labor: the Hind of Ceryneiaįor the third labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the Hind of Ceryneia. ![]()
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