Shadow Man Remastered is coming to Switch in just a few weeks
Originally meant to release back in 2021, which was only yesterday, Nightdive Studios have added a listing to the Switch’s eShop that has Shadow Man Remastered launching on January 18, which is just a few short weeks from now, check out the most recent trailer, featuring PC footage, to see how the game looks now.
As this is a remaster, you can expect all the visuals to be refreshed, the screens below look good after all, but the game is doing more than that. There is new music from the games original composer, reworked audio as well, plus updated sound effects.
The game will also feature 3 additional levels, that were cut from the games original release, all of which will have new music to accompany them, plus some previously cut animations and models have been added back into the game. All of the improvements can be found below, the full listing on the eShop can be found here.
There is so much, here is everything coming to the game, at least on Switch, the other consoles may have more.
3 New Levels:
"Summer Camp, Florida" (Day and Night)
"Salvage Yard, Mojave Desert" (Day and Night)
"Asylum Station 2 - Experimentation Rooms"
Audio Updates:
New Audio (from the original games composer, Tim Haywood):
Remastered music and SFX
New music and SFX for the restored levels
Restored cut/unused voice dialog in levels
Art Updates:
HD Textures for all levels and objects
Nvidia Intro Cutscene Textures
HD HUD and inventory icons plus a new icon for the Shadow Gun
Restored unused animations
Restored several cut and censored models from the original levels
N64 Gad Icons
Gameplay Improvements:
New weapon wheel to select weapons faster as time is slowed down
Improved controls
Improved destructible objects using Bullet Physics
Auto targeting
Tweaked/improved AI
Levels rearranged as originally intended
A ton of fixes across the entire game to each level from object to geometry fixes
Fixes to the localization for English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian
Over 30 achievements
New Weapons:
A second Violator (Consistent with the N64 version)
Sawed-off Shotgun (replaces the second regular shotgun)
New model and many sound variations for the Shadow Gun
New Enemies:
Yort
Yort Floater
The Seraph Queen
Seraph
Dead Worm
Unused zombie restored in Station 2
One arm Tenement Zombie.
Rendering Improvements:
Dynamic Per Pixel Lighting
Clustered Forward Shadow Mapping
Order-independent transparency
New Post Processing Effects:
Ambient Occlusion
Antialiasing
Anisotropic Filtering
Motion Blur
Film Grain
Depth of Field
Secrets:
All the secrets from the N64/Dreamcast/PC included in this remaster
Plus many more to be discovered!
