Valiant Entertainment announced this week that they have partnered with Nightdive Studios to develop a remastered edition “Shadow Man.”
The original “Shadow Man” video game was released in 1999 by Acclaim Studios for the PC, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Dreamcast. The game follows Shadow Man, a brave and powerful supernatural hero who protects humanity from the sinister demons that lurk in the Deadside and spill into our world. The game was re-released by Nightdive in 2014 for PC in its original form, but the remastered version will add a number of new features in addition to console support including:
- 4K widescreen display
- Dynamic shadow mapping
- Dynamic per-pixel lighting
- Antialiasing, and other post-process effects
- Higher density of particle effects
- Refined art, audio, and assets
- Refined gameplay experience
- Reintroduction of missing content cut from the original game
- HDR Rendering
Stephen Kick, CEO at Nightdive Studios explained: “Our goal with the remaster is to give today’s generation of gamers all the features that they expect from a modern title while preserving the qualities that made Valiant’s iconic character and the original Shadow Man game such memorable classics to begin with.”
The game is being updated using Nightdive’s proprietary KEX engine, which has been used to restore other classic video games including “System Shock: Enhanced Edition,” “Turok,” “Turok 2: Seeds of Evil”, “Blood: Fresh Supply,” and “Forsaken Remastered.”
Shadow Man is also getting a brand-new comic series from writer Cullen Bunn (“Venom”) and artist Jon Davis-Hunt (“The Wildstorm”). SHADOWMAN #1 will release on May 20th.
