John Romero's Daikatana

Developer: Ion Storm Publisher: Eidos Interactive, Inc. Technology: id Tech 2 Release Date: May 23, 2000 Chat-Room: #daikatana Buy Physical: ebay.com Buy Digital: gog.com, Steam

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From John Romero. The legendary co-creator of Wolfenstein 3D, The Doom series, Heretic, Hexen, Quake and now, Daikatana... will you be ready?

KEY FEATURES:

• Two highly-trained sidekicks to watch your back.
• More than 50 superior enemies to slice and dice.
• 25 glorious weapons to collect and utilize.
• 24 huge levels that span four time periods.
• Superior articial intelligence, including dialogue between characters.
• GL Accelerated 32 bit graphics and special real time lighting effects.
• Killer multiplayer capabilities for freenetwork, and low latency internet play at www.eidosgames.com
• 18 Ear-numbing songs in MP3 format

taken from the back of the box

Screens

How-To-Play On-line

Community Patch

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.

Downloads

Notes

• You can play the game without sidekicks by playing it in the multiplayer’s cooperative mode. You can even select the episodes in the style of Quake.
• The MPlayer Tournament demo has a different heads-up-display which can be easily modded into the final game, that has a more industrial look to it.
• The creator of the Zeus Bot for Quake worked on this game as a programmer.

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