Shadow Warrior (PC)

Shadow Warrior is an early first person shooter that relies on the 'Build' Engine, also used in Duke Nukem 3D, a game to which Shadow Warrior shares a great deal of similarities. You play Duke Nukem's oriental counterpart Lo Wang, a gun-toting ninja warrior and walking oriental stereotype with a penchant for bad one-liners, and have to blast your way through 28 varied levels fighting against uzi-wielding assassins, oriental spirits, huge demons, serpent creatures and undead kamikaze coolies who walk up to you laden with TNT before detonating themselves in your face. The weapons are particularly inventive and fun, ranging from a samurai sword that ...  Read the complete review

Shadow Warrior is a first person shooting game released to the personal computer in 1997 by GT Interactive. It follows closely on the success on its predecessor in chronology "Duke Nukem 3D" but makes vast improvements on the aforementioned title. At the time of release, its retail cost was $39.95 USD and had system requirements of at least a Pentium I computer, 16 MB RAM, 60 MB free hard disk space, a "SoundBlaster compatible" sound card and a VGA graphics controller capable of 256 colours. The game also required MS-DOS to execute. I have tested it as working on Microsoft Windows XP using the command prompt but there is no audio. For full ...  Read the complete review