The anime girls scattered around the game all look like terrible, potato faced homunculus, though in a charming “oh they tried” way. While some of the more nature and old ruins focused areas are a bit plain, the few levels in urban areas have a real life to them, the secret level Auto Maul sticking out for the fun concept of exploring a car shop and display. The map designers really hit it out of the park, majority done by Stephen Cole and Keith Schuler, making great use of the crunchy textures of the Build engine. Like the best old school shooter, there was a focus on replaying maps and doing better than before, even challenging you to beat the devs’ time. The vehicles were surprisingly fun to mess around with, even though they mainly looked like abstract blocks in most cases, and the nasty monster spawn traps just added to the game’s manic action vibe. This was basically a victory lap, 3D Realms spinning their wheels by doing some of their old tricks but better. It’s not at Serious Sam: The First Encounter levels, but those shadow ninjas are used in some phenomenally nasty ways. It is action gaming distilled, focused on exploring a dense area and dealing with the legions hidden in there, often in hateful ways in this particular game. Most noises are demon screams and explosions. Otherwise, your time is spent killing everything that moves and diving for the water while also launching a nuke at an army of mauling rippers, protected from the blast by the pixely liquid. Things do not let up from there, except when you get stuck trying to find a keycard or a switch hidden in a fireplace, but that was the norm for 90s shooters. Things get going from the first second, a demon ninja jumping into your home and needing a good old katana to the face.
Still, it must be said that Shadow Warrior is an absolute blast to play.
There is reason why you don’t see it talked about much anymore. You probably forgot by choice, but now that there’s an entire reboot franchise out there as Devolver Digital’s AAA wannabe big boy game, it’s time you all remember the original, the OG, the first Shadow Warrior. What you may have forgotten is that they followed it up with an even more technically impressive game in 1997 that was the first to introduce vehicles in a first person shooter. They left a massive impact on the gaming world and created one of the most popular characters of the 90s, you all know this.
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The legendary Apogee Software re-branded to 3D Realms in 1996 and released Duke Nukem 3D, a challenger to the massively influential Quake that met the first fully 3D FPS with high interactivity made possible in Ken Silverman’s Build Engine.
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