What is Shadow Warrior and why was (and is) it so popular?
Shadow Warrior was once known as Ninja Master during development, and then Shadow Warrior 3D. It was developed by the renowned 3D Realms, who had brought out Duke Nukem 3D a year earlier, and was expected by some to be an even bigger phenomenon than Duke had been. This didn’t really turn out to be true as the sales were nowhere near Duke Nukem 3D’s, and although several expansions were planned for release afterwards, they were halted, and eventually released as freeware later on. Despite this, Shadow Warrior didn’t go completely unnoticed and featured in a number of PC magazine articles, some which I read some ten years ago. There was also a lot of talk about it at the school I went to, and ironically, it was raved about by Asian kids all over the playground. To date, it probably was one of the first games, at least first-person shooters, besides ROTT, that let you control an Asian character; ROTT had Lorelei Ni, and Shadow Warrior, Lo Wang. You needn’t think though, that just because
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