![]() ![]() ![]() I dashed into the middle of them, used one of my many abilities to shoot some spikes up out of the ground through each of them, leaving my enemies impaled in mid air, and slashed in a circle around me with my katana, cutting each one in half at the waist. After I took out a few of the low-level Yakuza I switched attention to the slightly tougher enemies all huddled in the centre of the bridge. One particular moment that stands out during my time with Shadow Warrior 2 was a battle on a narrow bridge against about 20 Yakuza. The movement is also very very fast think this year’s DOOM – but on steroids. SHADOW WARRIOR REVIEW MOVIEThese two simple abilities both feel great to use individually, but when used together allow for some incredible action movie fights which feel amazing to play. There’s a very clear emphasis on movement you can dash using the shift key and double jump with space. You’re given near complete freedom to shoot, slice and explode enemies whichever way suits you best. And does Shadow Warrior 2 get this right? Yes, yes it does. This isn’t really a problem though, because Shadow Warrior 2 isn’t so much about story as it is about stomping through level after level slicing every single thing you see into tiny little pieces. Add to this the pretty shoddy human NPCs that look their worst during cut scenes and you have a pretty forgettable story. Oh ha ha, the main character’s name is “Wang”, I get it, let’s move on now. Sure, the first dick joke was pretty funny, and maybe the second… but come on, after 100 dick jokes it just gets annoying. The game also takes on a tone of pretty childish humour it’s filled with jokes that even 10 year old me probably wouldn’t find funny. ![]() This situation makes for some pretty funny banter between the two characters, but the whole situation becomes pretty tiresome pretty quickly, and at points I completely forgot what I was doing in the grand scheme of the story. Basically she becomes a voice in your head that only you can hear. As in video game tradition, the experiment goes pretty badly wrong, and you end up with her soul being grafted onto yours. The story isn’t anything special: you’re tasked with saving the daughter of a Yakuza boss from an experiment she’s about to be the subject of. In Shadow Warrior 2 you play as Lo Wang, super human ninja who will seemingly do anything for money. However, Shadow Warrior 2 proves – in an incredibly gory, stupid but extremely fun way – that there’s still plenty of life in the genre. At it’s core it’s a loot driven, heavily stylised first person shooter the exact genre of game that I thought I’d had enough of after the Borderlands series. SHADOW WARRIOR REVIEW FULLIt’s the sort of game that your grandparents think all video games are full of death, buckets of blood and a load of swearing. If you asked 10 year old me to come up with a video game, Shadow Warrior 2 is probably pretty close to what I’d suggest. ![]()
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