

Your goal is to find out which part of the city the TekLord is hiding in and apprehend him with extreme prejudice. Every TekLord rules over a chunk of the city spanning one to three maps all linked through a subway system.

You get to pick which of the seven TekLords you want to apprehend first, and Bascom (played by Shatner) briefs you on each one before dropping into the stage proper. If Jake busts the big “TekLords” responsible for producing and distributing Tek, he just might face a second chance at life. Except for Corridor 7, Capstone plopped out some of the worst junk this side of shareware, and TekWar‘s definitely among their top entrants for the hall of shame.Īs per the books and TV series, the premise sees Jake Cardigan, disgraced police officer framed for a crime he didn’t commit, taken out of cryogenic imprisonment by businessman Walter Bascom and tasked to clear the streets of an addictive microchip drug named Tek.

Yes, a video game exists that has Shatner speaking to you in full motion video, but why has this fantastic piece of multimedia faded into obscurity? To be blunt, the game was an absolute mess thanks to the consistently low quality of its developer, Capstone Entertainment.

(Like many books with celebrities attached, it was technically written by someone else.) That name likely brings to mind a certain quote for Simpsons fans, but TekWar itself came and went in the nineties with the advent of a television series and even a video game. However, the man is not just an actor, but also a musician, director, spokesperson, and even the creator of a science-fiction series called TekWar. That means all the action you could ever want along with alot more "gaming" than you're probably used to.William Shatner is many things to many people, but he is still known best to most as Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. Capstone is taking 3D action gaming to a new level. Combined with the stunning graphics is a cunning AI along with a host of enemies and weapons with which to slay them. Tekwar features amazing graphics unlike those in any other 3D action game. Bascom wants them alive perhaps you have other plans? It is entirely up to you. Are dead civilians a necessary cost of the war against Tek? Should you merely stun the Tekgoons or should you set them on fire with your flame thrower? What do you do about the Teklords, themselves.? Mr. In new, game-only, full-motion video, Shatner will help guide you through the city and the labyrinth of The Matrix to gather clues, solve puzzles, and defeat deadly enemies.Īlong the way you'll have to make a few decisions. The creator of the Tekwar Universe, William Shatner, interacts with players while starring as Walter Bascom, the head of the elite Cosmos detective agency. It's your mission to stop the tidal-wave of addiction. 50 years from now.Things are just a little bit different.
