With sales obviously hurting from the enormously popular Doom by id Software, Apogee has overhauled its graphic engine and will be releasing in the coming months a barrage of new 3D, first-person perspective games. First cab off the rank is Shadow Warrior, and if specs were everything then this would be the game to beat. Not content to take the blast out of the game, the designers have included ninja magic such as Fireball and Tornado. All the walls, ceilings and floors are fully texture-mapped and can be any size, angle height or thickness.
Floors can move and crush objects, enemies and players.
Full parallax scrolling backdrops can be up to 1024 pixels wide. An impressive improvement over Doom is the capacity for surroundings to actually morph into other objects. Rooms can become larger or smaller or change shape entirely. Vehicles can be created to pilot or steer and true swinging doors that have thickness are included. All surfaces can be fully-animated, allowing a wide number of possibilities for expansion, scenery definition and so on.