Shadow Man Remastered Heading To Switch On January 17, 2022

Shadow Man Remastered Heading To Switch On January 17, 2022

The classic action-adventure game Shadow Man will soon be making its return for Switch owners!

According to the Switch eShop, Shadow Man Remastered will be hitting the Nintendo Switch on 17 January 2022 for $19.99 USD. This refreshed release of the original Shadow Man includes new levels, new weapons, restored cut content, and much more!

Check out an earlier trailer for the remaster below:

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 to Deadside. To stop an apocalypse. To save your soul.

Stalk criminals across two worlds: Explore crime scenes in the Louisiana, Swamplands, a New York tenement, a Texas prison, the asylum and many other locales.

Send Evil back to darkness: Go in armed with high-caliber guns or soul-destroying voodoo powers.

Unravel the Mysteries of Deadside: Gather sinister voodoo artifacts in order to solve puzzles.

Live the Nightmare: Over 40 immersive cut-scenes and hours of in-game speech.

Shadow Man: Remastered is a complete overhaul of the classic game with restored, previously cut content!

3 New Levels:

  • “Summer Camp, Florida” (Day and Night)
  • “Salvage Yard, Mojave Desert” (Day and Night)
  • “Asylum Station 2 – Experimentation Rooms”

New Audio (from the original games composer, Tim Haywood):

  • Remastered music and SFX
  • New music and SFX for the restored levels
  • Restored cut/unused voice dialog in levels

Art Updates:

  • HD Textures for all levels and objects
  • Nvidia Intro Cutscene Textures
  • HD HUD and inventory icons plus a new icon for the Shadow Gun
  • Restored unused animations
  • Restored several cut and censored models from the original levels
  • N64 Gad Icons

Gameplay Improvements:

  • New weapon wheel to select weapons faster as time is slowed down
  • Improved controls
  • Improved destructible objects using Bullet Physics
  • Auto targeting
  • Tweaked/improved AI
  • Levels rearranged as originally intended
  • A ton of fixes across the entire game to each level from object to geometry fixes
  • Fixes to the localization for English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian
  • Over 30 achievements

New Weapons:

  • A second Violator (Consistent with the N64 version)
  • Sawed-off Shotgun (replaces the second regular shotgun)
  • New model and many sound variations for the Shadow Gun

New Enemies:

  • Yort
  • Yort Floater
  • The Seraph Queen
  • Seraph
  • Dead Worm
  • Unused zombie restored in Station 2
  • One arm Tenement Zombie.

Rendering Improvements:

  • Dynamic Per Pixel Lighting
  • Clustered Forward Shadow Mapping
  • Order-independent transparency

New Post Processing Effects:

  • Ambient Occlusion
  • Antialiasing
  • Anisotropic Filtering
  • Motion Blur
  • Film Grain
  • Depth of Field

Secrets:

  • All the secrets from the N64/Dreamcast/PC included in this remaster
  • Plus many more to be discovered!
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