John Romero's Daikatana

Developer: Ion Storm Publisher: Eidos Interactive, Inc. Release Date: May 23, 2000 Chat-Room: #daikatana Buy Physical: ebay.com Buy Digital: gog.com, Steam

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Wield the mighty Daikatana, an ancient Japanese Samurai Sword, through 4 time periods from the Dark Ages to post-apocalyptic San Francisco. Encounter an unprecedented 64 monsters and 32 weapons in a gorgeously-rendered 3D world.

KEY FEATURES:
• Utilizes ID Software's Quake Unified Engine Technology.
• Easy multiplayer connections for free / commercial internet and modem play.
• Incredible Artificial Intelligence for all characters including voice communications between you and computer-controlled sidekicks.
• Each of the 4 episodes provides distinctive environments, weapons, art, music and creatures.

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How-to-play On-line

The unpatched game is, with the shutdown of GameSpy online services, sadly unplayable over the Internet. It will still be a blast on a LAN!

Note that Dailatana 1.3 does not support Frag-Net, so you're unfortunately not able to host any servers without the need to port-forward or browse servers.

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