The Shadow Warrior 2: Bounty Hunt Part 2 content update delivers thirteen thrilling new missions, two spectacular new weapons, and three powerful new perks for Lo Wang and the gang. Strap on your katana and go for one last ride alone or in co-op through missions like Lost Girls, Missing Yakuza, and Danger Zone with new weapons like the Tactical Bullet Spewing Machine (TBSM).
Posted on: May 29, 2018
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Great but repetitive and a bit buggy
The remake of Shadow Warrior in 2013 was a pleasant surprise and more or less everything that made it good is still there. It's just total fun to chop your way through demons, using chi power and listening to Wang's cocky remarks. It looks great, the controls are perfectly done, the weapons are diverse and feel just right, level/world design is great with lots of destructibles and the story is somewhat interesting. The game design is now "hub based". So it's not really open world, but you can start (side) missions in any order and you can even go back to side missions to roam freely. While this is fine, the problem is that there are only a very few different locations which are heavily (!) reused. For all main, side and bounty hunt missions plus all the trials I needed 33h, but I feel the main story line would've been just a few hours and almost everything else was playing through the same few levels again. You could say that I wasn't forced to play all the repetitive bounty hunt missions, but even the side quests and some story quests reuse the same levels. Personally, I think they also overdid the whole powerup thing. There are literally hundreds of weapon powerups and dozens of weapons and chi powers and towards the end you can even craft/modify powerups, but there's just not enough game to justify all this and I wish they had invested the time and money in some additions levels. Then there are quite a few bugs like treasure chests automatically placed in rooms/buildings you can't access. I got stuck several times (needed to teleport out and start another mission), fell through the floor and the game once froze completely. Plus not all the cars are destructible. Last but not least, while the graphics look great, the faces and facial animations are not really state of the art. And well, there's no savegame handling whatsoever. Still, I loved playing it most of the time, it's just that seeing the same levels over and over again was a bit of a letdown.
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