## Description
_ShadowForce_ is a shareware graphic adventure game. The story is set in the
early 22nd century, when Earth Central Command, a world government body that
succeeded the United Nations, establishes a special operations unit, the
eponymous ShadowForce, to combat anarchy, chaos and corruption in the wake of
a global crisis. This team of four “enhanced humanoids” becomes mankind’s last
hope when it faces new, unprecedented threats to its existence, such as a
rampant AI or an alien invasion.
The player’s goal is to guide the ShadowForce team through three missions:
_Rise of the Overlord_ , _GateKeeper_ and _The Final Paradox_. Only the first
mission is available in the shareware version of the game. The game is played
from the first-person perspective, with static images of each scene the
characters find themselves in. Each scene has a text description, and many
other events in the game are also presented as text messages.
Movement and combat is turn-based, and interaction with the game world is
accomplished through a mouse-controlled interface. The gameplay primarily
consists of solving puzzles by manipulating items found throughout the game
environment, and combat encounters. Occasionally it is also needed to talk to
certain non-player characters by typing in keywords to elicit various
responses from them. While there is no flow of real time, in some of the
phases of the game the player is only able to take a limited number of turns
before a certain event happens. Overall, _ShadowForce_ places a greater
emphasis on puzzle-solving, however combat also requires the players to
cautiously think out their moves, as ammunition and health packs are rather
limited.
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