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Shadow Warrior

1997 78 / 100 Fighting Shooter

Shadow Warrior is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms and released on May 13, 1997 by GT Interactive. Shadow Warrior was developed using Ken Silverman's Build engine and improved on 3D Realms' previous Build engine game, Duke Nukem 3D. Mark Adams ported Shadow Warrior to Mac OS in August 1997. The game's improvements included introduction of true room-over-room situations, the use of 3D voxels instead of 2D sprites for weapons and usable inventory items, transparent water, climbable ladders, and assorted vehicles to drive (some armed with weapons). Although ultra-violent, the game emphasized tongue-in-cheek humor and contained some sexual themes (although less blatantly than in Duke Nukem 3D). A combination of Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior was published by GT Interactive in March 1998, titled East Meets West.

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World design Nicht eindeutig GameplayCombat-focused Game modeMultiplayer

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Lo Wang is a bodyguard for Zilla Enterprises, which has control over every major industry in Japan. However, this has led to corruption. Master Zilla, the president of the Zilla Enterprise, is planning to conquer Japan using creatures from the "dark side". When he discovers this, Lo Wang quit his job as a bodyguard. Master Zilla realizes the threat that Lo Wang poses and sends his creatures to battle him

GameplayCombat-focused Game modeMultiplayer GenreFighting GenreShooter ThemeAction ThemeComedy ThemeScience fiction Traitbehind the waterfall Traitbloody Traitboss fight Traitchemical warfare Traitchinese accent Traitcontroversy Traitdark humor Traitdestructible environment Traitdial-up wide area network game operation Traitdual wielding Traitexplosion Traitfinishing move Traitgame reference Traitgore system Traithand-to-hand combat Traitinteractive environments Traitmartial arts Traitmelee Traitmetagame Traitmissile launcher Traitninja Traitnuclear bomb Traitnudity Traitopen-source Traitprofanity Traitracial stereotypes Traitracism Traitrun and gun Traitshareware Traitspecial attacks Traitsteam trading cards Traitswimming Traitswordplay Traittime trials Traituseable vehicles Traitvoxel

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Developer: 3D Realms
Publisher: MacSoft Games, GT Interactive Software, General Arcade, 3D Realms, Devolver Digital, Eidos Interactive
Franchise: Standalone

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Modi: Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action, Comedy, Science fiction

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Mac May 29, 2013
DOS May 13, 1997
Mac Oct 01, 1997
iOS Dec 19, 2012
DOS 1997
PC (Microsoft Windows) May 29, 2013

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