Shadow of the Beast is an adventure developed by Heavy Spectrum Entertainment Labs, released 17 May 2016 on PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 7 hrs to finish.
What Shadow of the Beast is
Shadow of the Beast is an adventure game developed by Heavy Spectrum Entertainment Labs and released in 2016. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story of Aarbron is told once more... More than 20 years after the first title in the series captivated a generation of gamers, Heavy Spectrum Entertainment Labs will bring the visually stunning world of Karamoon to life once more in the PlayStation 4 system exclusive Shadow of the Beast. Embark on a ferocious, action-packedjourney in your quest to dethrone the evil lord Maletoth. Relive the legend...
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Shadow of the Beast holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7 hrs.
What it launched against
Shadow of the Beast launched on 17 May 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch and Doom. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Doom.
Official trailer
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