Shadow Watch (Windows)

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Description

Shadow Watch is a turn-based tactical strategy game set in a near future world of international intrigue. The player has access to six characters, each of which has special skills. The game is played in a series of missions with each mission having a different goal, such as the stealthy retrieval of secret documents or the extermination of an enemy force.

Although it is often compared to Jagged Alliance and X-COM, Shadow Watch is only vaguely similar to those games. It has a unique action point system where all actions take the same number of action points but action point may be gained by events such as being shot or seeing an enemy. The game also features a morale system where if a character's action points go above their morale score they go berserk and become controlled by the computer until they can calm down. Also unlike the other games mentioned, Shadow Watch does not allow you to pick up weapons from fallen enemies. Instead, each character has predefined weapons and skills which make you use each character differently.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Games made into books
• Tom Clancy licensees

User Reviews

Nice comic-booky introduction to the world of turn-based squad tactics	Zovni (10648)
A really fun game with tactical and some RPG elements, with some unique and original ideas	weregamer (169)

Critic Reviews

IGN	Apr 17, 2000	8.4 out of 10	84
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Apr 17, 2000	76 out of 100	76
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Apr 26, 2000	75 out of 100	75
Da Gameboyz	Jul 09, 2004	7.375 out of 10	74
GameSpot	Apr 12, 2000	7 out of 10	70
incite PC Gaming	Apr, 2000		60
GameSpy	May 04, 2000	54 out of 100	54
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Jun, 2000		50
PC Games (Germany)	Mar 01, 2000	45 out of 100	45
PC Player (Germany)	May, 2000	31 out of 100	31

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Related Web Sites

• Shadow Watch (official website)
• Bill Brown - Music Composer (Listen to streaming and downloadable MP3 music tracks from this title at the composer's official site. )