The project was to be released by freeware, but distributors got attenttion, orginal concept was changed to 3rd person shooter with new storyline and title changed to Shade: Wrath of Angels. Shade: Wrath of Angels’s working title was Nefandus and development Started in 1997 as isometric shooter based on Quake2 engine. In addition to climbing and jumping, you’ll also have to solve a smattering of relatively simple puzzles, which are often just tedious, nobrainer key hunts.Shade: Wrath of Angels is an action game for the PC and Xbox, developed by Black Element Software and published in 2004 by Cenega. It’s also unclear how far you can fall without dying, which leads to frustrating trail and error during the game’s many platformer segments.
The controls and camera are clunky, either way, making it hard to move fluidly or see clearly at times. The firstperson view gives you the targeting crosshair that the thirdperson view lacks, but makes it harder to perform various Lara Croftstyle stunts, like leaping chasms or shimmying along narrow precipices. You’ll just have to roll with it.Īs you traverse the different game worlds, you’ll run, fight, and jump from either a first or thirdperson view. As described in one of the game’s innumerable and unfailingly tedious cutscenes, this story makes little sense and is about as engaging as a page from the phone book. You soon learn that you need to free him by first liberating four fallen angels trapped in parallel worlds. It seems your little brother has stumbled onto an ancient mystery and gotten himself magically imprisoned by angry gods. In Shade, you play as a generic tough guy whose brother just happens to be an archaeologist.
Shade isn’t entirely bad, thanks to a few attractive visual touches and musical themes, but that’s ultimately worth little in the grand scheme of things. As an action game, Shade suffers from a laundry list of flaws: a dull hero, boring and frustrating combat, repetitive levels, key hunts, scarce save points - you name it. Taken as a survivalhorror game, it’s derivative, silly, and about as scary as an episode of ScoobyDoo gueststarring Don Knotts. No matter how you look at it, Shade: Wrath of Angels doesn’t stack up. Publisher : Cenega Publishing | Developer : Black Element | Genre : Horror/Action/Adventure | Size : 203 Mb
Game Platforme(s) : PC | Language : English | Release Date : Nov 2, 2004