Shadow of the Beast
Shadow of the Beast is a platform game developed by Reflections and published by Psygnosis in 1989. The original version was released for the Amiga and later ported to many other systems. The game was known…
Shadow of the Beast is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Reflections Interactive, released 1 October 1989 on Atari Lynx, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System/Mark III.
What Shadow of the Beast is
Shadow of the Beast is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Reflections Interactive and released in 1989. It was published by Psygnosis. It is available on Atari Lynx, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System/Mark III, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20, FM Towns, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shadow of the Beast is a platform game developed by Reflections and published by Psygnosis in 1989. The original version was released for the Amiga and later ported to many other systems. The game was known for its graphics, with many colours on screen and up to twelve levels of parallax scrolling backdrops, and its atmospheric score composed by David Whittaker, which used high-quality instrument samples.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Shadow of the Beast holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70.
What it launched against
Shadow of the Beast launched on 1 October 1989, within three weeks of Disney's DuckTales and SimCity. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.
Released around the same time: Disney's DuckTales, SimCity.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadow of the Beast yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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