The Shadow of Zorro is a 3D action game that revolves around dagger-fighting. The game is set in California in the year 1822, and is based on the pulp fiction tales about the character Zorro (Don Diego). Don Alejandro, Don Diego's father, has his reasons to believe the new Police Commissioner De La Hoya is none other than the "Slaughterer of Saragossa", a horrible criminal everybody thought to be dead. It is up to Zorro to unveil the mystery and punish the criminals.