Shadowgrounds

While Shadowgrounds might not win any big awards for originality, the nonstop action absolutely gets the adrenaline pumping throughout as it offers up a planet's worth of beasties to blow away.

A louder, meaner, faster futuristic version of "Gauntlet."

It may be unoriginal, but it's got the atmosphere. [May 2006, p.90]

Shadowgrounds is a pretty solid game if you treat it as what it is, a game where you collect and upgrade weapons, and use them to blow away aliens.

This game is fun, but flawed and it makes no effort to stand out on it's own or to do anything innovative.

A decidedly old-school design keeps it from entering the ranks of today’s great shooters, but it does well what it sets out to do: give us visceral action in dark environments.

A refreshing return to the past, and for that reason it's slightly too generic to recommend strongly. It's only ever just pretty enough, and there's seldom anything really breathtaking.

This game is very interesting, you have many weapons to choose from, upgrades that make a measle pistol into a little killing device, and a very interesting storyline and concept. The only thing that disappointed me in this game was the ending, it was quite anti-climatic really.

Reasonably entertaining top-down shooter with mediocre graphics and voice acting, but lots of fun weapons and enemies to fight. The plot gets pretty weird towards the end.

Very nice Third-Person fast-paced alien shooter. Excellent voice-overs. Story is basically this: aliens are attacking the Ganymede colony (one of Jupiter's Moons) - you are an engineer and need to take care of EVERYTHING :)) Yep! I liked it quite a bit. About 6 hrs of game in it. A twist at the end ;)

the game was made in 2005-6 and the graphics are like it was made in 1999 the gameplay is just simple but good the story was awful (i didnt finish the game but i played 2-3 hours of the game and i just didnt want to play it anymore) i dont know how crazy all the ppl are who vote it for 10 this doesnt worth even 1 euro i am glad i won it on steam and i didnt pay for that s*it!

C’est une sorte de Diablol mais avec moins de clics dedans et qui se déroule dans un univers de science-fiction au lieu de la fantasy de supermarché des Diablol ! mais ça ne pisse pas bien loin non plus puisque c’est basiquement et bassement inspiré des Aliens… en version clairement basse du front ici. Notre petit bonhomme dégomme donc des xénomorphes qui ont infesté différents niveaux de différentes installations… autant dire que ça s’avère rapidement répétitif pour ne pas dire carrément chiant. Pas de sauvegarde (y compris automatique) autre que lorsqu’on a fini un niveau entier… entièrement ; si on meurt, comme un chat (mais nettement moins tout de même !) on entame notre crédit de… neuf, non quatre vies ! et on rédémarre pas loin de là on a mouru… La maniabilité reste des plus correctes (souris et clavier bien entendu) et les graphismes sont proprets (limité au 4/3 cependant, vu que c’est un machin qui date de 2005). Jolis effets sonores également. Mais c’est décidément très bête… et répétitif. Et chiant.