Posted on: January 11, 2021

jeansjoe

Games: 309 Reviews: 12

An okay Shooter - not quite the sequel

Where I come from and maybe what I expected: (skip if you like) I played SW1 with a passion. SW1 gave you what you expect from a shooter like Doom, Quake or the likes. A linear storyline, tunnel like maps which sometimes feel like tunnels, a fixed set of weapons and unlocks. SW1 had some pretty nice mechanics tho. First of all the katana being viable as one of your main weapons made a shooter very melee heavy. Then you could also level perks in an RPG-like fashion. Overall I foung SW1 by accident and I was very happy with it. SW 2 is different in a lot of regards. The maps are used over and over again, modified by story states. Which is kind of okay. You can modify weapons now - which is a fun system only a little clustered after a while. Perks are fun and well designed Story is fun and funny! Really bad jokes as always! lovin that Graphics look great Sound is great Multiplayer is probably great too - have not tried Overall you can see this game was made to play it in multiplayer. Which is why a lot of sacrifices to the single player experience have been made. Which means it is for single players somewhat less gripping. Does not make it bad, just puts a glass ceiling on being really good at a single player experience. In a way you can compare this to Shooters like Borderlands, even GTA in a way. It uses elements of those when it comes to reusing the map with new quests. I did enjoy SW1 quite a lot more because the story kept me going a lot more in SW1. In SW2 you pick a "Mission" and do that, which is very different from just going deeper down one rabbit hole. Overall: It's a 3-4/5 game. It's average when you only play single player but it still has a lot of things you might really enjoy. the weapon modifying system, graphics, the jokes - really could be a lot of those things that have been done well here. It will very likely be an enjoyable or even quite enjoyable game for you.

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Posted on: February 19, 2021

Chaser_pl

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Games: 568 Reviews: 7

Wish I could give it 5 stars

IMHO great sequel to the 2013 reboot Pros - GRAPHICS (like WOW - from models, to settings, textures etc.) - great, stable engine - interactivity (U can destroy looots of things) - humor - ArtStyle - many different settings - open nature with possibility to revisit locatons - hub - level design - original enemies design Cons - undercooked weapon stats mechanincs (which is overwhelming and boring at the same time) - weapons lacking punch far too often - Sci fi levels being sometimes hard too look at (reflections, overbrights etc) - post process effects galore (again, making it hard for the eyes) - boring cutcenes - as with 2013 SW, very poor face animations

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Posted on: December 31, 2021

jayezar

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Games: Reviews: 4

A fast-paced romp

I enjoyed playing this so much on Game Pass that I bought it here on GOG. For someone who literally gets lost in games, I enjoy how good this game is at telling me exactly where to go, and allowing me to teleport home as soon as I am done with what I am doing. Shooting feels great and it's fun to wield so many different weapons. Story is pretty whatever but at its core the game itself is a lot of fun.

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Posted on: March 25, 2024

Draugusto

Verified owner

Games: 484 Reviews: 208

You win some, you lose some.

The game is satisfyingly smooth to play, guns now are a viable alternative to the sword, with a lot of weapon variants to choose, and an upgrade system that allows certain degree of customization, sword play has improved too, sword skills only require a directional input instead of double tap, this makes a world of difference, spells have a dedicated button for each one, again, big improvement, with a decent amoount of passive skills to further your murderous potential. And get this, there's no fall damage , no stamina and no recovery time between sword skills. My favorite change tho: The game doesn't rate your "performance" after each fight. All these changes make the moment to moment gameplay enjoyable and you will play until you get tired of goring demons, and believe me, you will get tire of it because... The game is no longer a linear experience with carefully crafted levels, it is in all intent and purposes, a looter shooter, is built to get you into a loop of revisiting zones to farm loot to get minimal increments on stats and repeat endlesssly, nothing encapsulates this better than the masamune orbs, a rare curerncy used to upgrade the base stats of weapons and purify charms from negative effects, this processes are prohibitely expensive, but again, the game will only throw a few orbs your way each time. It sounds boring, and it is because there are only three distinctive biomes. Finally, Lo Wang is an insufferable prick this time, he throws insults and sarcasm at everything that breathes, and his relationship with his coprotagonist is antagonistic at best, which makes the ending more jarring than anything else. In the end, the game made big improvements on the combat, but the story and the narrative are weak, stretched thin in a bloated pustule of content. My advice is to only do the side missions that give skills and ignore the rest, no matter how enjoyable the combat is, you want to spend as little time as possible with this game.

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Posted on: July 31, 2018

mudplayerx

Verified owner

Games: 179 Reviews: 31

Just Plain FUN

First of all the game is optimized wonderfully. I play with no lag or frame rate loss at all, all settings on max on a laptop I bought for $800 almost 2 years ago. The only game that comes as close to being this smooth that I have played is the newer Tomb Raider. The environments are beautiful. All of the grass and leaves and branches move in the wind and look amazing. The attention to detail is amazing. For instance in the strip club, the shiny stage had realistic smudge marks on it when the light glinted off of it and the pole had fingerprints all over it. Just as the previous games the combat is not only fast paced, gory, and brutal... but it is just plain satisfying and fun. There’s nothing like busting through a wall with your chainsaw, using shift to rush up to an enemy, then watching in slightly slow motion as your saw runs up the middle up your twitching enemy, their screams shuddering from the vibrations and blood, intestines and crimson gushes going everywhere. Get this game. You will love it

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