Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku

Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku
US box art for PS2 version of Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku
US box art for PS2 version
Developer(s)Adrenium Games
Publisher(s)Sega
Director(s)Dominick Meissner
Producer(s)Alex Pantelias
Designer(s)Geoff Card
Programmer(s)Dave LeCompte
Artist(s)Jason Zayas
Composer(s)
Platform(s)
Release
Genre(s)
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku is an action-adventure video game released in 2004 by Adrenium Games and published by Sega and based on the Samurai Jack animated television series on Cartoon Network. It is the second game based on the series after Samurai Jack: The Amulet of Time on the Game Boy Advance a year prior. The series' original voice actors, including Phil LaMarr, Mako Iwamatsu, Jeff Bennett, John DiMaggio, and Jennifer Hale, reprised their respective roles for the game. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube. An Xbox version of the game was planned,[4] but never released, even though it was included on the official Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility list.[5]

It received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[6] With Shadow of Aku being unreleased on the Xbox, the next licensed Samurai Jack game, Battle Through Time, was released on August 21, 2020, becoming the first Samurai Jack game available on Microsoft platforms.

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  2. ^ "SEGA SHIPS SAMURAI JACK: THE SHADOW OF AKU". Sega.com. Sega of America. March 23, 2004. Archived from the original on June 14, 2004. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
  3. ^ "2004 Release Dates". EuroGamer.net. July 23, 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-07-23. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  4. ^ "SEGA Partners with Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to Publish Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube". San Francisco: Business Wire. January 27, 2004. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 2012-11-30 – via The Free Library.
  5. ^ "Play Original Xbox Games on an Xbox 360 Console". Support.Xbox.com. Archived from the original on 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
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