Shadow Man: 2econd Coming

Shadow Man: 2econd Coming is an action-adventure video game developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside and published by Acclaim Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It is a sequel to the 1999 video game Shadow Man and, like the previous game, is based on the Shadowman comic book series published by Valiant Comics.

Shadow Man: 2econd Coming
Developer(s)Acclaim Studios Teesside
Publisher(s)Acclaim Entertainment
Producer(s)Nick Bagley
Designer(s)Jonathan Heckley
Mathew Ward
Programmer(s)Martin Fuller
Artist(s)Michael Muskett
Andrew Catling
Writer(s)Guy Miller
Simon Phipps
Composer(s)Nick Arundel
Platform(s)PlayStation 2
Release
  • NA: 28 February 2002[1]
  • EU: 8 March 2002
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot

The game starts off as a New York cop and his partner fight a huge demonic creature in an abandoned building. Their goal is to steal an enormous ancient book because it couldn't be put in the wrong hands, in this case, the hands of the demon. The cop successfully grabs it and escapes the building but his partner gets shredded into pieces by the demon's claws.

Some ten years later a near-empty passenger train is headed to New Orleans. Mostly alone sits Michael LeRoi waiting for night to fall when he shall turn into The Shadowman. Nettie was waiting for him at her church but she felt something wrong. She looked at the sky and saw a blazing star and knew it meant trouble. Simultaneously in a run down N.Y. tenement building a legless wheelchair man with the face a mass of scar tissue rolled over to the window and noticed the gigantic star. Michael had already looked out the dusty train window and noticed the unfamiliar sky. He had to ask Nettie cause the whole world might be in trouble.

Wasting no time upon his arrival in New Orleans he ran to the Wild at Heart bar who was running by Jaunty, the closest thing Michael had to a "friend". The bar was deserted and dead quiet which was severely out of place. He couldn't find Jaunty but once he went into the upstairs loft he found everything ransacked and bloody arcane symbols drawn on the walls. Mike knew it was some sort of gang but he didn’t recognize it.

After meeting up with Nettie in the church they both plan to search the Louisiana swampland for Jaunty. LeRoi still needed to find his gun and his dad's pocket watch but Jaunty was first priority. The mysterious gang had kidnapped Jaunty and hung him in a tree with the same arcane symbols from the bar but this time they were on his head. Unfortunately, after LeRoi finds and returns Jaunty to Mama Nettie, he is cursed with a powerful spell. Upon completion of his second task and after another visit with Mama Nettie, LeRoi receives a note from a man named Thomas Deacon whom he goes about in search of. After which LeRoi learns of "The Codex" book, Asmodeus and the Grigori, as well as their plan to cause Armageddon. It is once again up to Mike LeRoi, or Shadow Man, to save the world.

Controversy

Acclaim created a minor controversy when plans of advertising the title on small billboards attached to real tombstones were announced, saying they would pay relatives of the deceased for the advertising, adding that "poorer" families might be especially interested.[2]

Reception
Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic68/100[3]
Review scores
PublicationScore
CVG8/10[4]
EGM6/10[5]
Game Informer7/10[6]
GamePro[7]
GameSpot6.9/10[8]
GameSpy65%[9]
GameZone7.1/10[10]
IGN7.7/10[11]
OPM (US)[12]
X-Play[13]

Shadow Man: 2econd Coming received "average" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[3]

References
  1. Cove, Glen (28 February 2002). "Shadow Man: 2econd Coming Ships". Archived from the original on 3 August 2004.
  2. Oliver, Mark (15 March 2002). "Game publicity plan raises grave concerns". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  3. "Shadow Man: 2econd Coming for PlayStation 2 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  4. Skittrell, Lee (2 March 2002). "PS2 Review: Shadow Man: 2econd Coming". Computer and Video Games. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  5. EGM staff (June 2002). "Shadow Man: 2econd Coming". Electronic Gaming Monthly (155): 114.
  6. Reiner, Andrew (May 2002). "Shadow Man 2: Second Coming [sic] [score mislabeled as "6.5"]". Game Informer (109): 81. Archived from the original on 17 November 2004. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  7. Dr. Zombie (8 April 2002). "Shadow Man: 2econd Coming Review". GamePro. Archived from the original on 9 February 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  8. Lopez, Miguel (12 March 2002). "Shadow Man 2econd Coming Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  9. Garbutt, Russell (21 March 2002). "Shadow Man: 2econd Coming". GameSpy. Archived from the original on 12 December 2004. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  10. Valentino, Nick (21 March 2002). "Shadow Man: 2econd Coming Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  11. Dunham, Jeremy (11 March 2002). "Shadow Man: 2econd Coming". IGN. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  12. "Shadow Man: 2econd Coming". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine: 99. June 2002.
  13. D'Aprile, Jason (29 March 2002). "'Shadow Man: 2econd Coming' (PS2) Review". X-Play. Archived from the original on 9 August 2002. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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