Adobe ShockWave Player

Adobe ShockWave Player
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Jon Riggall

“Browser plug-in for rich multimedia content”

by Jon Riggall about Adobe ShockWave Player

If you want to play in online games on your browser, there's a good chance you'll need Adobe ShockWave Player, the daddy of online action plug-ins.

After a simple install and restart of your browser, you'll be able to enjoy a large range of graphically impressive online experiences. Most of the time you won't notice Adobe ShockWave Player is even there, but like flash and other plug ins it should be one of your basic downloads after installing a browser.

Compared to other more recent plug-ins like Unity, Adobe ShockWave Player is quite resource heavy. We tried some online Shockwave things that really slowed down our system. However, while it's a platform developers continue to use, it's useful to have.

While Flash and Unity have probably superseded it in many places, Adobe ShockWave Player can still give you some enjoyable Web gaming.

Pros
  • Allows you to play action games on the web
  • Easy to install
Cons
  • Inefficient
  • Still necessary to install v.10 for some things
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    Great for Games But......!

    I love the graphics with adobe shockwave player. I use chrome for my browser to adobe updates automatically. My only problem is it constantly crashes. I have to reload Adobe Shockwave Player at... More

  • stephenmk stephenmk
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    • 2/10
    Shockwave stops google chrome AND whole computer!

    I also have a google chrome browser issue. Not only does chrome stop and the tabs eventually warn me they're not responding, but my whole computer stops, and this thing is only 1 year old, a brand... More

  • che77 che77
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    che77

    awful. one of the worst, ugliest thing i've seen.i'am pretty short telling you that you have bad soft... More

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