Shadowman 2: Second Coming - PlayStation 2

Came fast and boy was I excited. I played this once when I was a kid and the video store I rented games from closed. Needless to say, I'm excited! Unfinished business is about to be handled today lol.

About all I can say about this game is that it was a decent sequel to an awesome game, but I wish they'd followed the original storyline a little more closely; Leroi wasn't a hitman, he was a college student that got in debt to the wrong people, and he wasn't built like a linebacker, he was a skinny guy. I'm a stickler for storylines, and this was an unnecessary change, but again, they made a decent game.

If you're a Shadow Man follower then you gotta get this. But does it live up to Shadow man senior? In Shadow man 1 Shadow Man is a black guy from the city down on his luck having failed college squandering his resources with gambling and booze. When a line of ShaMan and a Voodoo Priestess come along, Mike is transformed into the Shadow Man, Lord of Dark Side. Shadow Man is then required to collect Dark Souls before A certain demon named Legion, bent on creating demon humanoids and turning the world into a fiery carcass, does. This game is scary. It has VERY CREEPY SOUND EFFECTS such as clawing, people crying, pigs squeeling and other mysterious stuff... You also have to acquire different powers that enable you to do things such as swim in lava, climb walls of fire and coal, climb waterfalls and more. This game is one OF THE BEST GAMES EVER developed. The 64 version is crap, don't buy that. PLaystation version I heard stinks. Do the smart thing and grab it on Sega Dreamcast! It's obvious a lot of care was put into this. The first one was A BANGER. What about ShadowMan 2? There are some cool new elements to it. I like the fact that Shadow Man is bigger and the special effects added to him when he enters Dead Side is cool. But it's too dark, and the control scheme is irritating. I couldn't get through the first level! I tried hard. Are you up to the challenge?

I hate this cuz this title has a lot of issues the cd rom has trouble playing cause the lens has trouble reading the disc.so I suggest all gamers out there to stay clear of this. cause you might be in major disappointment. when you put it in playststion 2 or 3.

I was a huge fan of the original Shadowman; great story and gameplay.. So, inevitably, I purchsed SM2 immeadiately upon release. Bad idea. This game is awful. The music, sound, graphics, engine, dialogue, story and control are all far worse than the first time around. On top of that, you have to wait a good 30 seconds to load all the {stuff}. My best advice is to simply don't fire another neuron in relation to this game.

The game arrived complete and in good condition! Plays well!

It works great I love it.

I should start off this review by stating that I am huge Shadowman fan! I went so far as playing and beating all formats of the original Shadowman because I loved the extremely horrificand macabre storyline.So I have to admit that I was a little dissapointed that the content of Shadowman 2econd coming seemed a little "watered down".Walking through the adventure of 2econd Coming reminded me more of a slightly darker version of Zeldarather than walking through the demonic(sometimes Satanic),blood coated,on the verge of apocolypse hell of the first installment.Of course if the first one freaked you out too much, or you're an obsessive censorship buff,then this might be a good thing.....I myself was dissapointed.The game is far from a failure though as it was great to have Mike,Nettie and Jaunty back on my tv screen!This game takes placea few years after Michal Leroi/Shadowman destroyed the infamous demon Legion and saved the world from apocolypse.As the game progresses we learn that several diffrent cults of demon worshippers and demons themselves are preparing to ressurect their "leader"(I guess Legion was just a general or something?)from "The Pit" aka Hell(again another example of how I think this game was censored)to destroy the world,which was found out by information of former NYPD wheelchair-bound cop named Thomas Deacon(remeber Deacon's File that Nettie gives you in the first Shadowman game?Yeah,that's where he comes from!)Again I have to stress that while playing 2econd Coming,I just didn't ever get the feel of it being on the verge of Omega as I did in part one,and there was never a sense of terror simply by moving around in certain parts of the game(How many hairs on the back of your neck stood up when you were stumbiling through the darkness of the Birdman's tenant in Shadowman 1??)There was nothing like thatin 2econd Coming.While the voice acting was still good in 2econd Coming,with the return of the same actors from the original who played Michal/Shadowman and Jaunty(I love that accent!) it wasn't AS good.First of all because the actress who played the sexy,Miss Cleo-ish,Jamican accent of the voodoo mambo Nettie in part 1 was now replaced with someone else who wasn't nearly as convincing..NO ACCENT MAHN!!(Wait a minute...did I just use "sexy" and "Miss Cleo" in the same sentence??)I can only assume the reason why is because perhaps she died in real life?The game opens up with "In Memeory of Angela Atikinson 1972-2000"It's the only reason that I could figure out being the fact that the same Mike and Jaunty actors returned. Also,Michal Deacon's voice sounded,well,kinda stupid.Not that a New Yorker accent is bad(he's an NYPD officer!)but the actor sounded more like a guy who was TRYING to have a New Yorker accent and failing very badly.Another let down;Jaunty only has four scenes!ONLY FOUR SCENES??He's hiliarious!Why only four scenes?Fans of the original Shadowman will recogonize the voice of the greater demon in the opening cinema as the voice of Legion.While the voice acting wasn't as good,the gameplay rocked!!A keypart in it all?Weapons automatically locked on enemies,and with Mike being able to hold a gun in each hand???Well,you can already imagine!Inventory was also alot more manangable,but whatI hated about the controls was the fact that R1 and L1 buttons were used as your punch/fire buttons which took awhile to get used to.The only real annoyance I had with the control was that every time you fell into water/blood the weapon you had equipped would become transparent even after you switch hands.In short youwould have to take off the wepon completely and then re-equip itto get it to "register" in the game;making it an extreme pain when you fought the demon boss in Russia over a nice big lake of ice water!The game was great in showing the needed relationship between Micheal Leroi and Shadowman as you can switch back and forth between the two personas with a pocketwatch.Micheal of course being the braun(he's been pumping up sense the ps1 days)and Shadowman being the magic;but neither of the two being independant of the other.In fact you NEED to switch over from the other in order to complete the game.I think the soundtrack of 2econd coming improved over the original one;while perhaps failing in the scare-the-hell-outta-yatwisted "music" of Asylum,but victorious in other generes.From the celtic,chanting female voice of the Ireland stage to the drum-thumping voodoo beats ot the Duppie Village in Deadside...Maybe I'm being too harsh on this title,but it's just that I loved the first title so much that I expected the sequel to be "perfect" instead of just "good".If you're a huge Shadowman fan like me,then go ahead and buy this one;but expect to be a little dissapointed.