 Godin and Peter Lerangis, under the pseudonym A. L. Singer, wrote the novelization.As with the other "Worlds of Power" books, the amount of violence present in the video game was toned down in the novelization, because Godin and Scholastic were concerned that some of the material in the video game was inappropriate for a young audience.The novel did not adhere strictly to the game's storyline; for instance, the ending was changed so that Ryu's father survived.