ACCLAIM'S SHADOW MAN FOR PC GOES GOLD

Acclaim Entertainment announced today that Shadow Man for the PC has gone gold and will be available at retail stores nation-wide by the end of August.

Set against the mysterious backdrop of voodoo mythology, Shadow Man puts players in the role of Mike LeRoi, English Literature graduate now turned hired assassin, operating within the dark and seedy underworld of New Orleans. LeRoi has the ability to, at will, cross over into Deadside, the world of the dead, where he becomes the Shadow Man - an immortal voodoo-warrior with astonishing powers.

The game begins with a dream - a prophetic nightmare vision of Armageddon, as seen by Mama Nettie, the voodoo sorceress who created the Shadow Man by forcibly implanting the powerful Shadowmask in Mike LeRoi's chest. In her dream, Nettie foresees the coming of the Apocalypse - the day that the dead rise up and walk the earth. Her only weapon against the coming storm is the Shadow Man who she charges with the task of stepping across the veil into Deadside and to venture into the place where all killers are consigned when they die...the Asylum.

Inspired by the Acclaim Comics/Hero title of the same name and developed by Acclaim Studios' Iguana UK, Shadow Man embraces the extremely mature content of the comic-book and takes video-gaming into unexplored territories of the human psyche. As the player and Shadow Man together descend into the very heart of darkness itself, they confront the unimaginable horrors that exist at the edges of our perceived reality.