Oriental theme American FPS, with a variety of heavy taste performance to attract the attention and criticism of the outside world.
There is no doubt that first-person shooters (fps) are one of the most important categories in the entire industry, and their simple and intuitive, easy to use, and strong graphics impact are very suitable for promoting this new technology and gameplay in the early days of the rise of 3D games. In terms of immersive engagement, there was no 2D game in the 1990s that could compare with a variety of early fps, although the latter often relied too much on bloody, violent graphics to attract audiences, and generally did not have a decent plot, characters or dialogue, just a few scenes with little special features to pass the level, the mainstream media one-sidedly condemned such games, players have always enjoyed it.
In addition to id software, which has made indelible contributions to the industry, there was also a manufacturer of fps in the mid-1990s, 3D realms, which can not be ignored, after the pioneer "Duke of Doom 3d" with three vulgar fps became a hit, they immediately launched a new fps product with a similar style on May 13, 1997, but with more prominent personalized features, although it did not resemble "Shadow Warrior". Duke Of Destruction 3D has become a big topic, but it has left a lot of legacy to the industry. Polish developer Flying Wild Hog later bought the rights to the game and launched two "Shadow Samurai" that used the latest graphics technology, the second of which was released at the end of 2016 and received good reviews.
Kung Fu masters can kill without weapons
Looking back at the pioneering work of this series, the story of the game is very simple and rough, the protagonist Lo Wang (really want to translate as "Lao Wang") was originally working as a bodyguard in the zilla group, a giant enterprise that controls the lifeblood of various industries in Japan, and is an extraordinary "shadow samurai", who can take the initiative to leave the group after learning that the leader of the group, Master Zilla, plans to use monsters summoned from the dark world to conquer Japan. However, Master Zilla was very jealous of the master's strong strength and sent monsters to pursue and kill, and Lo Wang's master Master Leep was killed, and he had to embark on a journey of revenge.
Like Duke Doom 3D, this game uses a build engine based on the ms-dos operating system, so the overall picture quality has not changed much, but some of the surfaces, water surfaces and many other objects that are generally represented by 2D pre-rendered textures according to traditional habits have been replaced by 3D polygon modeling, which will appear more dynamic when moving. The game's level structure is also similar to "Duke of Destruction 3d", which is also divided into several small levels with different styles, which are full of enemies and traps, in addition to coping with battles, generally need to find keys to solve several puzzles to pass the level smoothly, which is also the basic routine of the fps games of that year.
Inexplicably oriental elements
The yellow storm element in the game is not so simple
Also inherited from Duke of Doom 3d is a large number of bloody combat special effects, black humor and sexual innuendo content, and because the protagonist is designed to be a Chinese kung fu master who lives in Japan and speaks English, some weapons that symbolize oriental culture, especially Japanese ninja culture, are also indispensable, such as Japanese swords, shurikens, etc. The production team even allows Lo Wang to take out the heart and brain of the enemy with his bare hands (the head of an enemy is still a weapon that can breathe fire) to show his martial prowess The impact of the picture is very amazing.
The level of bloodshed reached a new peak
In addition to the iconic cold weapons, the game of course also prepared including Uzi submachine gun, shotgun and other traditional fps weapons, and for the first time in the fps can be attached to the surface of the object sticky bomb, this idea was later borrowed by many works, and the powerful electromagnetic cannon makes the picture effect and world view of the game more unique, can drive a variety of vehicles The setting is also the first fps, and there are various interesting scene interaction details waiting for the player to explore.
In the face of such a violent game that takes the adrenaline of stimulating players as its mission, it was criticized by many media at that time, some saying that it distorted East Asian culture and conveyed a wrong world view to the public, some criticized the image and faction of the protagonist Lo Wang, who was suspected of racial discrimination, and of course, more critics were worried about the naked bloody performance. However, 3d realms encountered no small difficulties in operation after completing the development of this work, except for the endless fried "Duke of Destruction 3d" cold rice has never launched the original new work, otherwise "Shadow Samurai" will not wait until more than ten years later to be revived in the hands of other manufacturers.