William Shatner's Tekwar (PC DOS) - Gameplay

Gameplay video of the first-person shooter game "William Shatner's Tekwar", based on the series of books written by Shatner and co-authored by Ron Goulart (uncredited).

The game was developed and published by Capstone Software in 1995 for the PC (MS-DOS platform).

A below average FPS game, with neat concepts but poor execution. It wasn't a particularly commercial success.

The game does run relatively fluid on DOSBox, but unfortunately almost all FMV's featuring Shatner (as Walter Bascom) stutters really bad. So, I had no option but cut them off.

Here I complete the first mission, and yes the first TekLord, Marty Dollar kissed the floor after a single shot of my trusty taser gun... Heh.

A City in Turmoil...
The year is 2045. The place is the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
(GLAMA). The threat: Tek. The most psychoactive mind alterant ever devised
by the human mind is peddled daily on the streets of the inner city. This
trade resists all efforts by the poorly funded local authorities to halt its
distribution, and it brings in enormous wealth for those in control: the
TekLords. The mafia kingpins of the 21st century, the TekLords have divided
the city into seven boroughs to minimize infighting and maximize their profit.

" A New Threat...
Recently, an informant within the organization of TekLord Sonny Hokori, the
most powerful TekLord in the city, has come forth with a story too
frightening to ignore. He swears that the TekLords have put aside their
differences to increase the level of Tek addiction to disastrous proportions.
Their vehicle: the Matrix. Nicholi Petrovski, a noted cyberbiologist and
Miyoshi Nakahara, a Nobel prize winning cyberneticist have mysteriously
disappeared. It is believed that their skills are being used by the TekLords
to develop a means to distribute Tek across the Matrix. This would addict
the hundreds of thousands of people who use the Matrix in their daily
business; and once the flow of Tek on the Matrix is stopped, these addicts
will rely on the TekLord Consortium in the physical world to get their fix.

Recently Thawed....
Who will save the city from this enslavement? You will. An ex-cop framed for
dealing Tek, you have spent the last five years in cryogenic suspension in an
orbiting prison platform called "the Freezer". When you return to earth you
discover that you have been granted a 'special parole' on the condition that
you work for Walter Bascom, head of the Cosmos Detective agency. You must
investigate the efforts of the TekLords to use the Matrix and find a way to
stop them. If you succeed, thousands of innocents escape the mind-ravaging
effects of Tek. If you fail, the addiction spreads, but you won't see that in
the freezer...."

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[Rampag3Edition]

Hey, I'm trying to get this to run on Dosbox and I can get it running, I just have no sound with it. How did you get the sound working for this?

[LucasHidemiKomori]

@Rampag3Edition Well, after you install the game, you have the option of configuring the game audio: Sound Blaster, Port 220, DMA 1 and IRQ 5 works for me.

I still have the game CD-ROM with me, so I had to install the game on my HDD and run the game with the CD-ROM on the DVD/CD-ROM driver. That could be another explanation...

[Fastbikkel]

It was quite a wanted game back then, but i didnt find it addictive.

[LucasHidemiKomori]

@Fastbikkel The first time I saw this game, it was when my cousins were in vain trying to beat the first level... I can safely say that I wasn't impressed with the game itself back then, despite all the hype on PC magazines.

And the game still pretty bland in comparison to other contemporary PC first-person shooters, such as Duke Nukem 3D...

[tiberianfiend]

Even the sprites aren't as flat as Bill's acting.

[BehelitOutlaw]

@DaniBlazin i had the full game for my birthday but never ended the game. way too hard for the kiddo i was.

[Rampag3Edition]

@LucasHidemiKomori I found the CD at Good Will yesterday lol. I didn't think to install it first. I'll try that and see if I can get it to work. Thanks :)

[djakew77]

I love Bill Shatner's Tekwar. But this game is worse than E.T. or Superman 64.

[saveoursoulissa]

The strangeness of its world freaked me out so badly back then when I was a kid I didn't want to finish the demo.

[DaniBlazin]

Played the PC Gamer demo for this a LONG time ago (1996-ish)... Never could pass the first level.