Shadow Man
He is coming, stalking criminals in the spirit world and the real world. A possessed man is coming, a voodoo mask in his chest and lines of power in his back. Shadow Man is coming, trailing evil from Liveside…
Shadow Man is an adventure developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside, released 31 August 1999 on Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Shadow Man is
Shadow Man is an adventure game developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside and released in 1999. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shadow Man is a 1999 action-adventure video game developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside and published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is based on the Shadow Man comic book series published by Valiant Comics. The game was released for Nintendo 64, Microsoft Windows, and PlayStation on August 31, 1999, with a Dreamcast version following on December 1.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Shadowman series
Shadow Man is the first of 3 entries we hold in the Shadowman series. The next entry was Shadow Man: 2econd Coming in 2002. Its critic score of 70 is almost exactly the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Shadow Man Remastered at 71.
How it was received
Shadow Man holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 200 Mhz, 32 MB RAM and Direct3D compatible 3D accelerator card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadow Man yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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