Videogame demos posted by 3dfx at its own website 3dfx.com with name starting by character S. All these videogames have been optimized to be best played with 3dfx hardware and can be considered as part of 3dfx history. Furthermore, we liked enrich these pages with other demos that can be viewed as interesting for PC gaming history in general. |
| Demo of Scorched Planet, a fast paced 3D action/strategy game featuring 19 action packed missions across 7 huge and hostile terrains. Scorched Planet has been developed by Criterion Studios and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1996. The colony world Dator 5 is under attack from the marauding Voraxian Hordes. The people have sent out a distress call to the Galactic Federation, but yours is the only Galactic ship in the vicinity. And your job is to save the humans. |
| The action first-person shooter videogame Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is second part of Serious Sam: The First Encounter. It has been developed by Croteam, using Serious Engine as graphics technology, and originally published by Gathering of Developers. This demo includes a single-player level, a multiplayer deathmatch level, and lastly a level designed to shows off new graphics features supported by Serious Engine. |
| Severance: Blade of Darkness is a an action-adventure videogame developed by Rebel Act Studios and published by Codemasters in 2001. In this demo there is one level available, in which you play as the Knight, Sargon. Sargon's mission is to break out of prison and defeat the treacherous Ragnar. Severance: Blade of Darkness supports 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo2, Voodoo3, and Voodoo5 video cards. This demo is playable via Direct3D APIs. |
| Shadows of the Empire is a third-person shooter enriched with a lot of vehicular combat actions. It has been developed and released for Microsoft Windows 95 PCs by LucasArts in 1997. This demo includes first level from full Shadows of the Empire videogame and requires a 3D Accelerated video card at hardware level, and Microsoft DirectX 3.0a graphics APIs, or above, at software level. |
| Shogo: Mobile Armor Division is a first-person shooter videogame developed and published by Monolith Productions in 1998. Based on proprietary graphics engine Lithtech, this title uses Microsoft DirectX 6 APIs and supports a wide range of video cards, including the 3dfx Voodoo cards. Shogo: Mobile Armor Division allows gamers not only to fight as in a tipical first-person shooter but also to pilot gigantic mechs equipped with enormous weapons. |
| Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the fourth and final video game in the Star Wars: Jedi Knight series. This title has been developed by Raven Software, using the id Tech 3 graphics engine, and published by LucasArts for Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox gaming platforms in 2003, and by Aspyr for Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2020. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy can be played as first-person shooter and third-person shooter, and make available both single-player and multiplayer version. This demo includes two missions named "Mercenary Activity"(set on Tatooine plancie) and "Cult Sighting" (set on the Chandrila planet). |
| Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II is a first-person shooter videogame developed and published by LucasArts for Microsoft Windows on October 10th, 1997. It's second entry of Star Wars: Jedi Knight videogame series as well as the sequel of Star Wars: Dark Force, released by same LucasArts in 1995. Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II is based on DirectX 5.0 graphics engine Sith and includes both single-player and multiplayer versions. This demo features one single-player and one multiplayer level. |
| SWIV 3D is a shoot 'em up videogame as well as the sequel of 2D shooter game named simply SWIV. SWIV 3D has been developed and published by Sales Curve Interactive in 1996. This playable demo includes two missions, and offers player opportunity to you can fly using a helicopter. Furthermore in this package you can find two versions of SWIV 3D: a Windows 95 native version and a DOS version. |
| System Shock 2 is a action RPG survival horror videogame developed by both Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios, using Direct3D graphics technology named Dark Engine, and released by Electronic Arts in 1999. According to is official description, System Shock 2 is one of PC gaming's most cunning villains returns in the sequel to PC Gamer's #6 game of all time (that's System Shock released in 1994). Match wits with the egomaniacal cyber-being SHODAN in this unique combination of sci-fi horror role playing and 1st-person gameplay. |
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