To improve over Duke 3D, the game used Voxels (basically volumetric (3D) pixels. History and technical details can be found at and a video at. Other engines have been derived from various ports of BUILD. Other BUILD games include Blood, Powerslave/Exhumed and Redneck Rampage series and TekWar. It became the most successful engine of the era with some 12 games using it. The BUILD engine was created by Ken Silverman and powered some highly successful games starting with Duke Nukem 3D. I have heard the game to be some sort of spiritual successor - but I do not agree since 3D Realms were talking about a true sequel to Duke Nukem 3D soon release and other games were produced that used the BUILD engine such as Blood and Rise of the Triad. It was the success of Duke Nukem 3D prompted 3D Realms to create a few more titles that used Ken Silverman's BUILD 3D engine.ĭevelopment of SW began in 1994 with 3D Realms stating the game had a simple goal: to surpass everything that Duke Nukem 3D was which had enjoyed a wild success. Note: The detail for this feature relates to the original DOS version of the game which should serve as a basis for the newer ports now available described further down this article.
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In this feature will be in-depth look at the history of the game, the gameplay, screenshots and instructions on how to download and play the original version on modern PC's and an overview of the new 2013 remake. For those having never played you are lucky as it is now freeware and available to all. Now since the game has been revisited some 15 years later, I felt it time to revisit this classic for this website. However, as it was for me back then, it would be a while before I managed to actually play the game. It was two screenshots and some text but it looked awesome and knowing it had been created by 3D Realms I was eager to play. I first heard about SW after seeing the tiniest of clippings in a games magazine.
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As a PC gamer of the 90's I loved Duke Nukem 3D as much as the next man and whilst we awaited the much fabled sequel (a notorious story in gaming) we had Shadow Warrior! (SW)
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