I am sure that anyone reading this review has not a single doubt about Shogo being a great and unique classic.

So, I want to underline that this review is not about Shogo as a game itself, but about this release version.

Shogo was originally released on the 15th October 1998 and re-released on 15th April 2017 here on Steam as the almost 19-year-old classic it is.

The game does work, yes. But it is far from being satisfying: Framedrops (even in the option menus), stuttering, no fullscreen and a top bar on the screen to make it worse.

Re-releasing a game almost 19 years after its original release for 9,99 euro is perfectly fine, but without any adjustments to make it run on modern systems, it is nothing but a quick cash-grab and a punch in the face of any long-time fan.

Thus, I see no other option than giving thumps down, despite loving the game itself.

I will rewrite this review to a positive one as soon as there is a patch released which makes the game work.

If you are interested in my specs:

• Intel Core i7-6700K
  
• GeForce GTX 1080
  
• 16 GB DDR4-2666@2133
  
• Windows 10 64 bit

This is a very very veERYYY Rough gem. But I love it. It requires two external programs* to run on your modern system and a very simple editing of a config file to run near perfect, and once it runs, it runs.
*just download and drag into the main game file*

I don't review games, but after the credits I couldn't help but leave a review. So here goes.

The AI is either dead-eye'd or dumb as hell. Once you get about half-way, or maybe sooner, you'll soon learn to abuse the AI behaviors and start feeling like Neo, or some anime character.
They're also cheaters. I mean, complete cheaters. I'd say they're wallhacking, but I don't have proof other than some funny footage of one boss fight blowing himself up as he tried to shoot me through a wall with an explosive weapon.
Some enemies will shoot you as soon as a door even starts to open, or before you've even rounded a corner.

DON'T GET ME STARTED ON CORNERS
The Dev's knew their AI wasn't smart, so they are VERY underhanded in their placements. Behind walls, right behind doors, right around corners. If you play this game, Savescum. If you get a healthkit, quicksave. If you get armor, quicksave. Kill many enemies? quicksave. Cutscene? quicksave. Quicksave? quicksave... is quick a word? I said it too many times now.

You either play as Neo or as a SWAT team member, checking corners, suppressive fire, staying behind cover.. You may be Neo 75% of the time, but you're squishy 100% of the time. You do crits and so do your enemies. Some enemies will spawn at the end of a hallway with an instant kill rocket launcher. So you scavenge, and I MEAN SCAVENGE. You WILL put storeowners out of business, and make them change careers to semi-truck drivers with how much cargo they're going to have to replace, thankfully, ammo is common but health and armor are not. But you do get health back from critical hits, which are rather common.

The weapons are satisfying, both in Mech and on-foot, BUT you'll eventually boil it down to what's most effective. Call me crazy, but the silenced Uzi you get the Second you actually start on-foot is stronger than any other weapons you can find on-foot. And in mech, the automatic rocket launcher is probably the best option for most encounters. Also the automatic sniper is good, but there's no scope. So it's just a machine gun. BuT WHATEVER.

Map design is confusing. They put alot of effort in places you don't even need to go, and often try to mislead you for no reason. If you want to know where you're going, pay attention. This isn't Call of Duty and you're not in City 17 anymore. Leading by light? What's that? So just, shut up when important people are talking. If you forget, hit F1 for a log, but sometimes it might not even say where to go then. If all else fails, right-hand-rule. If that fails, Youtube lol. Don't get me wrong, the game is inspired. It gets across what it wants to. Cities feel big and looming, you feel like "yeah, I'm on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ desert planet." or "Yeah, I'm in an abandoned city". The intentional lighting is good at certain times too, like on the Leviathan.

The story, I liked it. It's not Mass Effect or Half-Life. You don't really realize the game is ending until the credits start rolling? So. It goes fast. It's fun. But they depend on you having feeling and attachment for characters you've never seen, won't see, and don't know. Looking back, it feels like they had plans to extend the story in either other games or maybe a larger game, BUT THEN, in the credits, they say the general idea for Shogo/Metal Tek/Riot(Early names for the game) the story starts in the same place. You're a wuss (in their words) and you're more of less grieving the loss of people you knew in the war. And then things happen. Yaddayadda. Spoilers!

In the end. If you like mechs, and you want something to take up a few hours of your life, either in spades or in one go, I reccomend it. It's a very niche game, so my descriptions will either turn you away or help you decide to buy it. It's a very rough gem, and I probably didn't do it justice in this review. There aren't enough mech games out there, so you have to enjoy what you can, and this game really had some heart put into it. You'll either love it or hate it.
P.S. I can't imagine anyone actually read all of this, but if you did, thank you!

This is another great game from Monolith Producions.
Just like in my Blood 2 Steam review, I'll say that it's a very 90's game in the way that you don't reload and you have to rebind all the keys because they're set to clasic dos games controls. "up arrow" moves forward and "left arrow" turns left.


Being almost 20 years old and not optimized, you have to download a "Widescreen Fix". https://www.gog.com/forum/shogo_mobile_armor_division/widescreen_patch

You will also need a "Borderless Windowed Program" like this one I use that workes with this game. http://store.steampowered.com/app/388080/

Funniest thing by far is that all the Japanese characters are drawn in anime style except one American guy named "Hank Johnson", who is just a normal person.

I dont get why there are negative reviews mostly for Shogo. This is a classis FPS game from my childhood, and I have 0 (ZERO) technical issues running it on modern system with win10 without any 3rd party apps, or patches. Its just like it was back in 1998, if you miss those good old days, play it for gods sake :).

I love this game! Ive beaten shogo so many times its not even funny. I know where every enemy is and every power up.....But i can not recommend spending your money on this unless you have an older machine that can run it or you want to download some programs that will help you run it.

This is not optimized at all for Windows 10 at least. And i will say that no where on the store page does it say that it will run on your machine so i will give them that. The game is amazing and im proud to see it on steam....but until its been fixed to run on modern PCs then i would avoid this one for now.

Hashirinuku tsuyoi senaka ga konna yuuki
Furisosoideirutte kizukisae shinakutemo
Shinjitsu nante kotoba ima mo mada kono sekai ni
Aruto iu nara me no mae no anata no naka

Oikakete kakenukete
Tsuyoi wakejyanai kedo

Kono karada kanjiru mono arukara
Tamerawazuni susunde shinjite
Ima sono kokoro dake o ugokaseru nara
I know we can make it together

For the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love of christ can you just make a sequel already? Ffs

Well, it was a pain run this game in WIN10 but here is the solution (need to donwload some DLL's and a Voodoo Emulator "dgvoodoo wrapper"). Just follow the these points

- extract the entire .rar inside the root folder of the game
- run dgVodooSetup.exe and apply the configs



Start the game, a launcher will come up, click on display, select:

Renderer: Lithtech Direct3D Renderer (d3d.ren)
Display: dgVoodoo DIrectX Wrapper
Resolution: Whichever you'd like, I used 1440x900x16 without any problem.



The game runs at fullscreen and no slowing problems.

Currently on an Alienware R4 m17x with GTX1080 on my Graphic Amplifier

PS: sorry for my bad english

as good as a gem this is from my childhood, the fact its sold in a state that doesn't even run is insane. You have to download patches and fixes from vauuge forums to even have a shot of running it and even after all that it still doesn't run. and for 10$ to