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Shadow Warrior (1997)

3D Realms

DOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS

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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 … 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. Read more

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Developers
3D Realms
Publishers
3D Realms, Devolver Digital, Eidos Interactive, GT Interactive Software, General Arcade, MacSoft Games
Genres
Fighting, Shooter
Themes
Action, Comedy, Science fiction
Series
Shadow Warrior
Also known as
Shadow Warrior Classic · Shadow Warrior 3D (Working title) · Ninja Master (Working title) · Lo Wang is Shadow Warrior (Tag-lined title) · SW (Acronym)

Release dates

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

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