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Daikatana

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…

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Genre
First-person shooter
Artists
Jeremiah O'Flaherty · Eric Smith
Composers
Al Chaney · Will Loconto · Will Nevins · Stan Neuvo · Robert Owen
Designer
John Romero
Developer
Ion Storm
Engine
Quake II engine

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Game Boy Color version

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Daikatana

Nodes118
Edges117
Triples242
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016949
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Daikatana

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related to Works cited · 49
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related to Development · 30
Daikatana → Anachronox, BMW, Bob Wright, CEO, Dominion, Doom, Eidos, Eidos Interactive, Hall, Ion Storm, Jerry O'Flaherty, John Romero, May, Mike Wilson, November, O'Flaherty, Over, Porter, Porter's, Quake
related to Game Boy Color version · 21
Daikatana → Europe, Frank Provo, Game Boy Color, GameSpot, In, Japan, Kemco, Link's Awakening, N64, NES, Nintendo Power, North American, PC, ROM, Romero, Romero's, The Game Boy Color, The Japanese, The Legend, This
related to Gameplay · 19
Daikatana → AD, AI, BC, Dark Ages, Due, Each, Follow, Greece, Hiro Miyamoto's, Japan, Mikiko Ebihara, Norway, One, San Francisco, Stay, Superfly Johnson, Tabs, The, When
related to Plot · 19
Daikatana → AD, Dr, Ebihara, Hiro, Hiro Miyamoto, However, In, Inshiro, Inshiro Ebihara, Japan, Kage Mishima, Mikiko Ebihara, Mishima, Mishima's, Toshiro, Toshiro Ebihara, Toshiro's, Usagi, Usagi Miyamoto
related to Promotion and release · 18
Daikatana → According, Austin, Both Wilson, Dallas Observer, He, In, Ion Storm, John Romero's, Later, Mike Wilson, Public, Retro Gamer, Romero, Sasha Shor, Speaking, The, This, Wilson
related to Reviews · 17
Daikatana → Computer Gaming World, Entertainment Weekly, Geoff Visgilio, Greece, It, Jeff Lundrigan, Maximum PC's, Next Generation, PC, PC Zone's, Robert Coffey, Romero's, The, This, Two, Waterworld, Will Smith
related to Sales · 15
Daikatana → According, American, Before Daikatana's, CNET Gamecenter, GameDaily, Ion Storm, Ion Storm's, July, June, Mark Asher, May, PC Data, September, The, United States
related to External links · 14
Daikatana → Deep, Doom, Dream, From, GameSpot, Gloom, June, MobyGames, NPR Morning Edition, Official, Romero, The Story, Video Game Flop, Wayback Machine
related to Retrospective analysis · 9
Daikatana → AI, Ben, Croshaw, Duke Nukem Forever, GameTrailers, Since, The, Yahtzee, Zero Punctuation

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game romero release ion storm version 2000 time quake hiro future 1997 released development john 1999 nintendo mishima staff romero's

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DaikatanaArtistsJeremiah O'Flaherty1.00infobox
DaikatanaArtistsEric Smith1.00infobox
DaikatanaComposersAl Chaney1.00infobox
DaikatanaComposersWill Loconto1.00infobox
DaikatanaComposersWill Nevins1.00infobox
DaikatanaComposersStan Neuvo1.00infobox
DaikatanaComposersRobert Owen1.00infobox
DaikatanaDesignerJohn Romero1.00infobox
DaikatanaDeveloperIon Storm1.00infobox
DaikatanaEngineQuake II engine1.00infobox
DaikatanaGenreFirst-person shooter1.00infobox
DaikatanaModesSingle-player, multiplayer1.00infobox
DaikatanaPlatformsNintendo 641.00infobox
DaikatanaPlatformsWindows1.00infobox
DaikatanaProducerKelly Hoerner1.00infobox
DaikatanaProgrammerShawn C. Green1.00infobox
DaikatanaPublishersEidos Interactive1.00infobox
DaikatanaPublishersKemco (N64)1.00infobox
DaikatanaReleaseJP: April 7, 20001.00infobox
DaikatanaReleaseUK: May 5, 20001.00infobox
DaikatanaReleaseNA: August 1, 20001.00infobox
DaikatanaReleaseNA: May 23, 20001.00infobox
DaikatanaReleaseUK: June 9, 20001.00infobox
DaikatanaReleaseJP: June 30, 20001.00infobox
DaikatanaReleaseAU: July 12, 20001.00infobox
DaikatanaWriterJorge Gonzalez1.00infobox
Daikatanais atotally playable game now0.90text

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