By Jassi Rea Bacha on June 23rd, 2004

Here’s yet another addition to the Spyro Series. Vivendi Universal Games’ Purple Dragon is back, again. However this version has a different approach to the tradition used in the Spyro games before it.

Here’s how the story seems to unfold:
A Red Dragon (evil, of course) has landed in Spyro’s world, placing Dark Gems all over the land, which is sucking the enviornment’s energy/life out of it. As usual it’s up to a 3 foot dragon to beat the living hell out of him and get rid of the Dark Gems. By collecting all of these Gems he can free the land.. returning the sun and light to the current wasteland (...Super Mario Sunshine?).

As usual, you collect a lot in this game.. however there are new things that make the game different than the ones before it. This is the first time you can choose between six unique and well developed characters. Sgt. Bird, Sparx, Binky and Hunter are some of them. Each character has their own style as well as their own type of attack. This Spyro isn’t flooded with vehicles like the last one, yet it has a bunch of cool mini-games.. like racing and flying games.

It’s said that Spyro: A Hero’s Tail is four times bigger then before and is planned to take atleast twice as long to beat.. that’s about 20 hours. It does appear that Spyro: A Hero’s Tail is in better development this time.. it looks better and offers a far greater variety of gameplay. We’ll have more on this game as it unfolds.