Shadow of the Beast

STORY / GAMEPLAY
Shadow of the Beast takes place in a fantasy world where an Evil Lord called Maletoth kills Aabron's (our hero's) father and casts a spell to transform the young boy into a wild, strong and ugly beast (Aabron actually looks much like the ancient Greek god, Pan). Now Aabron must avenge his father's death and break the curse, gaining back his human nature. On his task, he must fight armed enemies, bloodthirsty monsters, magician lords, skeletons, avoid traps and finally confront the menacing Maletoth. The journey is hard and Aabron needs ample energy in order to survive. His only weapons are his bare hands plus some rare tools that he can use on the way. In terms of gameplay, Shadow of the Beast is one of the most difficult games ever created for the Amiga so it takes patience and some good skills to survive. The whole action is pretty fast and the enemies are fiercely attacking to kill Aabron. But, apart from the enemy hordes there are also deadly traps, maze-like stages (etc the underground ones) and gigantic level bosses.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
This state-of-the-art video game sports (on its original Amiga version) 60-128 colors simultaneously on-screen, 13 layers of parallax scrolling, smooth animation and cool sprites that move flawlessly even if they crowd the screen.
The game's sound is equally impressive, offering some fantastic stereo music scores (composed by the great David Whittaker) and a variety of quality sampled sound FX. Shadow of the Beast (abbreviated sometimes as SOTB) is definitely one of the most good looking games ever created for the Amiga home computers and is a masterpiece that was always intended to run on an Amiga computer since all the other ports never managed to match the original version. Even today, Shadow of the Beast looks and sounds pretty amazing!