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Shadow Master

Sci-Fi First Person Shooter where the player controls a heavily armed vehicle.

31 December 1997

Shadow Master is a shooter developed by Hammerhead, released 31 December 1997 on PlayStation.

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What Shadow Master is

Shadow Master is a shooter game developed by Hammerhead and released in 1997. It was published by Psygnosis. It is available on PlayStation only. It runs on Hammerhead.

The premise, in the publisher's words

For over a millennium, two alien races had been waging an interstellar war, known as the Outer War. Now, during the fictional year of 1742, the people of the planet Sylvan began to grow uneasy as rumors had spread involving the disappearances of trade ships. Eventually the planet had lost contact with many of its outlying trade ships and star ports, which led to the complete communications blackout of the systems outer worlds. Refugees had come from the outer planets and told stories of mass destruction, death and plunder, with entire worlds being stripped of their resources, and countless innocence were either enslaved or slaughtered by mechanoid monsters. A 'death black-shadow' as was…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction.

What it launched against

Shadow Master launched on 31 December 1997, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Shadow Master come out?
Shadow Master was released on 31 December 1997 for PlayStation.

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