Six Awesome Werewolves in Video Games
Monday, October 6 – 10:43 PM
Posted by Andrew
I, for one, feel that vampires have always garnered way too much attention in the world of video games, and werewolves have subsequently been given the short end of the joystick. Alex and Mark of Diehard GameFAN agree with me, and have posted an article where they ask: Where Are All the Werewolves? They discuss six games that give lycanthropes their due, ranging from Altered Beast to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Can anyone out there think of any other games where you play a werewolf?
Thanks to ArcLight for the link.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:08 am
There’s a few games involving werewolves they left out. Most notably, I think, is The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Get the Bloodmoon expansion (or just pick up the Game of the Year edition) and you can apparently fight against and/or become a werewolf. (I say apparently because I’ve little patience and less time to play vast, free-form RPGs like Morrowind so I haven’t gotten that far into it yet.)
October 7th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Great choices here. But who can forget the retro and generic “Werewolf” from the old NES game “Werewolf: The Last Warrior”? Like the NES itself, this game was a bad-ass combination of indescribably awesome and soul-splittingly bizarre. However, the ending is (almost) worth your efforts: you’re treated to an incomprehensibly bad-ass pic of your werewolf character holding an American flag and roaring as the American public stares in awe of you. If George Washington had known that he had to compete with that degree of patriotism, who knows, he probably would have just said “F*** crossing the Delaware, I’m staying home.”
Anyway, I’ve written a review of “Werewolf: The Last Warrior” here if any of you care to check it out:
http://jjmike.com/old_school_games/10_Craziest_NES_Games/werewolf/default.html
January 6th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I think there SHOULD and i mean that be MORE Werewolf games i see barly any i have ideas but i don’t know if i have things right.
January 10th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Oh you can find Werewolf on Fable i’m not sure about Fable 2 though but they call them Balverines on there ^,^
May 29th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Don’t forget Knight Lore back on the Spectrum in the 80’s. Your character spent all night as a little green werewolf wandering about the castle he was trapped inside :)
July 1st, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Better than Bloody Roar, Metamorphic Force. An old arcade game where you can choose between werewolf, panther, bear, or bull.
A classic that needs to be redone for a new generation (and not be butchered) and brought to new heights.