Wang begins with his trusty katana and a magnum, then goes on collecting weapons at a furious rate, giving you a ridiculous arsenal of guns, blades, monster claws, chainsaws and handheld artillery after just a few hours into the game. Still, this isn’t a game of narrative but a game of action. A powerful magician extracts her soul from her body and places it in Wang’s, and the two join forces on a range of missions in the hope of stopping the corporation’s plans and restoring the girl to her normal state.Īt least, I think that’s it – after a few hours, I found the plot so utterly baffling and the missions so devoid of meaning that I’d lost all sense of what was actually going on. The plot kicks off when the daughter of a crime boss, undercover in a sinister corporation’s lab, becomes possessed. You play Lo Wang, a smart-mouthed ninja assassin in a world where pseudo-Oriental fantasy meets Chinese triad dramas meets Western sci-fi. It’s just a shame that the appeal begins to wane after the first few hours.įans of the 2013 reboot or the 1997 original will already be comfortable with the basics. With its ludicrously intense, ultra-violent combat, daft one-liners and insatiable appetite for gore, this game from developer Flying Wild Hog is a great reminder of everything that once made the shooter so much fun. This is, in many ways, a wonderful thing. It looks bang up to date, but the core gameplay feels rooted in the glory days of Duke Nukem, Quake 2, Half-Life, Serious Sam and No-One Lives Forever. Like its much-loved predecessor, Shadow Warrior 2 seems to take us to an alternative universe where Halo and Call of Duty never happened and the FPS developed along the lines of late-’90s PC shooters. Oh and the game didn't look half bad either, nice to look at, great detail on weapons, fluid animations, fat loading times and well optimised with not a crash or stutter in sight.Available on PC (version tested), PS4 and Xbox One The only con I can really think I could give the game is probably the slow ass reloading times on each weapon, something I really appreciated about games like Serious Sam where you just had a pool of ammo and could shoot until you were out and I feel like them having that style would have been in the games favour I think personally, but that's just me! Don't throw loads of enemies at me and have me reloading constantly! There IS a story there, of course but unless you're taking your time you can easily gloss over the details in favour of intense battles. Just don't go in expecting some superior story-rich s full of extremely crude and hilarious jokes, usually about ♥♥♥♥♥, farts, sex and masturbation and I couldn't stop laughing, my inner child was highly amused. Honestly I can't point out anything bad about this game, it just is what it is and it gives you exactly what it says it will, its really satisfying and great to let off some steam just decimating hordes of creatures. I just love the fact that even though the map is quite sizeable, the speed, jump and dash is incredible for getting around in a flash, you take no fall damage either so you can go mental. You find yourself generally following that typical path of feeling a little underwhelming at first but just like any game with a leveling and upgrade system you eventually become extremely powerful, very fast and very hard to kill.especially with the right setup of weapons and upgrades equipped, it all happens within a fairly short period of time too so you aren't left feeling like you're doing limp noodle damage for too long and the game keeping you feeling high and dry. Additionally you can level up and earn skill points to upgrade skills that you can learn from missions or find on bosses. SW2 takes the general formula of the first game and improves on it 10 fold by giving you a far superior arsenal of weapons to choose from with varying rarities and unique/exotic effects, an open world map and safe hub to resupply and buy new gear or craft new upgrades that you can teleport between at your leisure, bounty board, side-missions and the abilities to free roam at your leisure if you want to farm or find unique world bosses. Amazing game, crazy fun, very fast paced!
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