Daikatana
Sign in to save'''''John Romero's Daikatana, better known as simply Daikatana''''', is a 2000 first-person shooter action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive for Windows. A port to the Nintendo 64 was released the same year by Kemco. Players control a swordsmaster who travels through various time periods using the eponymous Daikatana, a powerful sword tied to the fate of the world.
Game data
- Released
- 2000-05-23
- User rating
- 2.41 / 5
- Genres
- Shooter, Action
- Platforms
- PC, Nintendo 64
- ESRB
- Mature
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Key facts
- Video game.title
- Daikatana
- Video game.image
- Daikatanabox.jpg
- Video game.developer
- Ion Storm
- Video game.producer
- Kelly Hoerner
- Video game.designer
- John Romero
- Video game.programmer
- Shawn C. Green
- Video game.writer
- Jorge Gonzalez
- Video game.engine
- Quake II engine
- Video game.released
- Nintendo 64Windows
- Video game.genre
- First-person shooter
- Video game.modes
- Single-player, multiplayer
- Software.title
- Daikatana v1.3
- Software.name
Article
15 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- Plot
- Development
- Promotion and release
- Reception
- Sales
- Reviews
- Retrospective analysis
- Unofficial patch
- Game Boy Color version
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- Bibliography
- External links
'''''John Romero's Daikatana, better known as simply Daikatana''', is a 2000 first-person shooter action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive for Windows. A port to the Nintendo 64 was released the same year by Kemco. Players control a swordsmaster who travels through various time periods using the eponymous Daikatana, a powerful sword tied to the fate of the world.
Daikatana was directed by Ion Storm co-founder John Romero, a co-developer of the influential first-person shooters Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), and Quake'' (1996). Announced in 1997 as Romero's first game after leaving id Software, it underwent a troubled development that saw a change in its engine, release date delays, and the departure of several staff members. The protracted development, combined with promotion that focused on Romero's involvement over the game itself, resulted in negative publicity for Daikatana prior to its release.