Black Games Archive

Context, Culture, and Representation


Shadow Man

Developer: Acclaim Studios Teeside
Publisher: Nightdive Studio
Release Year: 1999, 2013 (PC), 2021 (Remastered WIN), 2022 (Remastered & Switch)
Platform: Dreamcast/Mac/N64/PS/PS4/Switch /Win/Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Taxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black cultural traditions; voice acting/ motion capture

The Shadow Man, originally Mike LeRoi, was transformed by a voodoo priestess into a guardian of the afterlife where he must stop Jack the Ripper and a biblical demon who plan to bring about the apocalypse using the souls of five notorious serial killers.

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