Posted on: February 21, 2012

rampancy

Gry: Opinie: 15

An underrated FPS gem...

It's seems like yesterday that I found myself enthralled by the demo of the original Mac OS 9 port of Shogo: MAD, on my old 400 MHz Power Mac G4. The demo had me hooked, but at the time there was no way that I could have found a copy at my small local game shop. There's not much else I can say about the game that's already been said elsewhere here, but having finally played through the game from start to finish, it's a delight to see that others are enjoying it too. Shogo: MAD is one of those games where you really can't help but look past its flaws - the unbalanced weapons, the jarringly different MCA and human play modes (where in the former you're nigh invincible with a fully-automatic precision sniper rifle and in the latter it just takes two hits before you die in a shower of blood and gibs), the disjointed and overly clichéd plot...all of that is immediately forgivable in the face of the over-the-top voice acting, and the refreshingly simple gunplay. It really feels like this is not only game made by shooter fans, for shooter fans, but a game made by animé buffs, for animé buffs.

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Posted on: December 25, 2010

doccarnby

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Gry: Opinie: 2

Starts off Good

The game starts off decently, and is a fun FPS, but as it gets along, the effects of the rushed development become more evident. The very end of the game is a confusing mess, with back tracking trying to figure out where you're supposed to go. The On Foot segments become tedious, which is an issue, since despite the whole Mecha thing being the games big selling point, you end up not piloting one very often. The critical hit system seems arbitrary, random, even, and with a little more polish could have been great. As it is, it's merely a minor annoyance. Humour is another issue. Sanjuro gives little quips in the cutscenes, but it rarely feels natural. Most of the time they come off as forced, and generally don't fit the tone of the scene at all. Tragic, as if given the proper tone and pacing, they could have been hilarious. However, the credits amused me, feeling like something straight out of an anime. The graphics are ok, but the ones in Blood 2, released the same year and running the same engine by the same company, are better. However, on a Vista32 system like I have, Shogo is significantly more stable. I got Client MFC Error crashes every 5-20 minutes with Blood 2, but had a single one in Shogo. In conclusion, I must state that it's a shame that the expansions never came out, as they would have certainly polished up the troublesome aspects of the game, and made a game well worth recommending. As is, I can recommend the first part only, as the latter half is a poorly developed mess.

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Posted on: March 20, 2011

sapphireneclace

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Gry: 381 Opinie: 22

Still unsure

When I got into gaming in my middle years of elementary school SHOGO was the short-lived king of shooters. More than 10 years later I finally got around to play it and... huh. There are hardware issues, which are irritating but the game is still playable and I don't dare to guess if that is GOGs or my fault. Doesn't matter that much really. Still, it does *not* run smoothly for me, the first game bought here to do so. Gameplay wise.. the thought that this was the big enemy of the first Half-Life title is a joke in retrospect. You can see that they had very similar ideas, lots of talking in game with NPCs, lots of environment changes without loading screens and more of a story than, say, DOOM. And they really succeeded. It is just that Half-Life did it much better. The story is kind of silly, the dialouge is a tad awkward, the characters are all pretty flat but.. really, this was one of the firts attempts to bake a story into shooty gameplay and they did it. You walk around either inside a giant robot and shoot other giant robots and anything else that fires and you, or walk around the ground as yourself and.. shoot anything that fires at you. That all works, but what breaks the experience for me is that the two different perspectives do not feel significantly different. The weapons change and I do a lot more damage in my mecha, but that really is about it.. but maybe that was the technology limit. SHOGO is not a bad game. If nothing else it is an interesting look on how FPS got going after Quake and Doom set it walking... but I just prefer other shooters more. 3 stars for a good, if lacking experience. And the fact I can rampage around in a robot. We don't that often enough anymore.

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Posted on: February 10, 2021

wh1tepointer

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Gry: 157 Opinie: 9

A great FPS you might have missed

Shogo was actually created by Monolith, after they made Blood which was the game that really put them on the map, but before they made the smash hits F.E.A.R. and Condemned: Criminal Origins. In was kind of buried underneath an avalanche of other FPS released for the PC around that same time like Unreal, Quake 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Hexen II, Blood II, System Shock 2, Rainbow Six and Half-Life, so it's worth checking out if you missed it back then. When you're piloting your mech you are powerful and can cause big explosions but when you're on foot you're pretty vulnerable and can die in a few shots in you're not careful, so you'll need to be more subdued and methodical. It's an interesting contrast, and the game has a bit of an anime theme to it despite coming from a western developer. I go more in depth with Shogo as part of my Windows 95/98 Hidden Gem video here: https://youtu.be/QEBPbKODlVg

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Posted on: July 30, 2022

Zenperor

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Gry: 448 Opinie: 12

One major FPS from the early 3D era

First I'd like to say that it was horrible to optimize this for modern PCs, but I can't explain it exactly, it ended up working pretty well and I finished Shogo. Honestly it doesn't matter, the game even after 20 long years is still great. I felt like I was playing a Duke Nukem mecha anime. Big F# Guns, Explosions, Giant Robots... Seriously, everything I like most about an FPS at once, i couldn't ask for more. It's kinda hard to believe those were the same guys who brought us that awful Blood 2. I wish i played this sooner. A great piece of work, and I missed it all these years.

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